Knowing Asia: Creative Policy Translation in an Australian School Setting

Autor/in	Salter, Peta
Titel	Knowing Asia: Creative Policy Translation in an Australian School Setting
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 29 (2014) 2, S.145-164 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2013.794303
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Risk; Policy Formation; Educational Innovation; Creativity; International Cooperation; Literacy; Figurative Language; Interviews; Secondary Schools; Principals; Administrator Attitudes; Global Approach; Asia; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Risiko; Politische Betätigung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Kreativität; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Sekundarschule; Principal; Schulleiter; Globales Denken; Asien; Australien
Abstract	Policy implementation at school level is often recognised as transformative enactment. Positioning school leaders as gatekeepers in this enactment is limiting. This study of one Australian school explores the complex contextualised agency of school leaders showing that their role, far more than gatekeeping, can be enabling and transformative. Identifying the agency of school leaders in enacting policy imperatives to "know Asia" creates space to imagine localised narrative possibilities that negotiate and potentially challenge policy agendas. Accounts of policy work by school leaders are heteroglossic and densely intertextual in their mobilisation and collocation of discourses. A metaphor of a frog in a well is taken up to translate policy in locally specific ways that make it much more than a template of externally devised policy. Deep contextual knowledge empowers school leaders to imagine policy in innovative ways; however, it is paired with a cautionary note on risks inherent to shaping policy for "like-minded" futures. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10