Researching Education Policy, Public Policy, and Policymakers: Qualitative methods and ethical issues - Hardcover

Gibton, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138024414 ISBN 13: 9781138024410

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

 

Researching Education Policy, Public Policy, and Policymakers is a theoretical and hands-on practical guide to conducting qualitative research on education policy and public policy, with an emphasis on studies that involve senior participants and high-status government and non-government organisations.

Building on over a decade of extensive experience in qualitative research on education policy among the most senior policymakers, this book explores and illustrates successful approaches to working with senior policymakers through examples from both the UK and Israel. Whilst policy studies are traditionally either theoretical or quantitative, this book explains the theory, methodology, and ethics of harnessing qualitative methods to the study of senior policymakers and their settings.

Key topics include:

• Designing and planning the qualitative policy study
• Document analysis as a policy research tool
• Interviewing policymakers and observing policy
• Mapping qualitative policy analysis methods
• Writing policy reports
• Ethics and trust

This practical guide, built upon a sound theoretical framework, will prove both inspirational and helpful to academic and professional researchers across all disciplines involving public policy.

About this title

About the Author:

Dan Gibton is Tenured Associate Professor at the Constantiner School of Education at Tel-Aviv University, Adjunct Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, and visiting Professor at the UCL Institute of Education, where he was also a research fellow in 2000, 2005, 2011, and 2015.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138024414
• ISBN 13: 9781138024410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226