ERIC Number: EJ1025906
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Publication Date: 2014
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Mediating Education Policy: Making up the "Anti-Politics" of Third-Sector Participation in Public Education
Williamson, Ben
British Journal of Educational Studies, v62 n1 p37-55 2014
This article examines the participation of "third-sector" organisations in public education in England. These organisations act as a cross-sectoral policy network made up of new kinds of policy experts: mediators and brokers with entrepreneurial careers in ideas. They have sought to make education reform thinkable, intelligible and practicable in terms of a computational discourse consisting of code, networks, interactivity and feedback, and related ideas of decentralisation, open methods and personalisation. What characterises this style of thinking is an "anti-political" preoccupation with computer-coded systems and the idea of networks as a model for new political and educational forms.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Public Education, Educational Policy, Organizations (Groups), Policy Formation, Research, Nongovernmental Organizations, Community Organizations, Governance, Internet, Web 2.0 Technologies, Case Studies, Educational Innovation, Technology Uses in Education, Networks, Curriculum Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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