Positioning Ontario's Character Development Initiative in/through Its Policy Web of Relationships

Autor/in	Winton, Sue
Titel	Positioning Ontario's Character Development Initiative in/through Its Policy Web of Relationships
Quelle	In: Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 58 (2012) 1, S.1-16 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-4805
Schlagwörter	Citizenship Education; Personality; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Cognitive Mapping; Concept Mapping; Schematic Studies; Values Education; Moral Development; Ethical Instruction; Policy Analysis; Educational Practices; Political Influences; Politics of Education; Educational Research; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Personalität; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Concept Map; Schematheorie; Werterziehung; Moralische Entwicklung; Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Politikfeldanalyse; Bildungspraxis; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Educational policy; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Kanada
Abstract	Constructing a policy web of relationships is proposed as a useful way to identify and understand complex relationships between policies and their contexts. In Canada, the province of Ontario's "Character Development Initiative" (CDI) and its relationships to student achievement, citizenship education, and safe schools policies provide an illustrative example of the web's utility. Mandated by the Ontario Ministry of Education, the Character Development Initiative was expected to be implemented by all publicly funded school boards during the 2007-2008 school year. This application of the policy web shows how what happens in one policy affects what happens in another and highlights relationships between policies that might be overlooked if one's focus is limited to a single policy's texts, practices, or influences alone. This example also shows how creating a policy web of relationships highlights issues, texts, practices, and ideas important across different policy fields and how a particular policy is positioned in relation to other policies. This knowledge may be used to support, resist, or influence policy at different levels. Mapping the relationships between policies using a web of relationships also provides historical understanding of the policies and knowledge about why policies (re)emerge at particular moments. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10