Series Editors - Clive Dimmock, Mark Brundrett and Les Bell
As global pressures focus increasing attention on the outcomes of education policy and on their implications for economic prosperity and social citizenship, the experience of each individual learner is decisively shaped by the wider policy environment. However, there is often an underdeveloped understanding of how education policy is formed, what drives it and how it impacts on schools and colleges. This book explicitly makes these connections and links them to the wider challenges of educational leadership in a modern context.
Education Policy is divided into three sections, which examine:
The book provides a valuable resource for students, practitioners, middle managers and educational leaders in all sectors, both in the UK and internationally, who are engaged on masters and doctoral degrees, or undertaking leadership training and preparation programmes.
Les Bell is Professor of Education and Director of the Doctorate of Education programme. Howard Stevenson is a lecturer in Educational Leadership and Management. Both are based at the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management, University of Leicester.