eprintid: 1474272
rev_number: 42
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datestamp: 2016-02-22 12:15:11
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type: article
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creators_name: Hodgson, A
creators_name: Spours, K
title: Restrictive and expansive policy learning – challenges and strategies for knowledge exchange in upper secondary education across the four countries of the UK
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
keywords: Policy learning, upper secondary education, United Kingdom, Anglo-Saxon education model
note: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the Journal of Education Policy on 13 January 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02680939.2015.1132012.
abstract: This article examines the challenges and possibilities for UK policy learning in relation to upper secondary education (USE) across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (NI) within current national and global policy contexts. Drawing on a range of international literature, the article explores the concepts of ‘restrictive’ and ‘expansive’ policy learning and develops a framework of dimensions for examining what is taking place across the UK at a time of change for all four national USE systems. From an examination of recent national policy literatures and interviews with key policy actors within the ‘UK laboratory’, we found that the conditions for expansive policy learning had markedly deteriorated due to ‘accelerating divergence’ between the three smaller countries and a dominant England that has been pursuing an ‘extreme Anglo Saxon education model’. The article also notes that some aspects of policy learning continue to take place ‘beneath the radar’ between UK and wide civil society organisations. This activity is more prevalent across the three smaller countries although each, to differing degrees, is still constrained by its position in relation to the UK as a whole.
date: 2016-01-13
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2015.1132012
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
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elements_id: 1106387
doi: 10.1080/02680939.2015.1132012
lyricists_name: Hodgson, Elizabeth
lyricists_name: Spours, Kenneth
lyricists_id: EAHOD31
lyricists_id: KSPOU42
actors_name: Hodgson, Elizabeth
actors_id: EAHOD31
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Education Policy
volume: 31
number: 5
pagerange: 511-525
issn: 1464-5106
citation:        Hodgson, A;    Spours, K;      (2016)    Restrictive and expansive policy learning – challenges and strategies for knowledge exchange in upper secondary education across the four countries of the UK.                   Journal of Education Policy , 31  (5)   pp. 511-525.    10.1080/02680939.2015.1132012 <https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2015.1132012>.       Green open access   
 
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