1st Edition

Further Education, Government's Discourse Policy and Practice Killing a Paradigm Softly

By Sandy Cripps Copyright 2002
    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    This title was first published in 2002: By exploring a public policy process in action during the period 1944-1999, this book traces the impact of policy to the institutional level where policy becomes practice. The author investigates the development of the further education sector and reveals the process that helped shape its identity. The book provides a benchmark, combining theory with reality and evaluating current policy.

    One: The Dynamic Context of Change; Two: The Government’s Right to Change Things: Policy-making and its Legitimacy; Three: Chameleonic Policy Process Dynamics: Landmarks in the History of Further Education II; Four: Vision or Mission?; Five: The Archaeological System of Knowledge and its Discursive Roots; Six: The Archaeological System of Knowledge: A Broad Panoramic Sweep; Seven: Mastering the Paradoxes: Regulation as Problematic; Eight: The Roots of Competitive Advantage; Nine: The Cast; Ten: Genesis of a New Theme

    Biography

    Sandy Cripps