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Taking a step back for a leap forward: policy formation for the digitalisation of schools from the views of Swedish national policymakers.
- Source :
- Education Inquiry; Dec 2021, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p329-346, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The modest impact of national policy efforts on school digitalisation relates to a gap between views among policy-makers and practitioners, giving rise to complexity in translating policy into action. Acknowledging changes in governing through alternative policy formation-processes, and Ward and Parr's (2011) arguing for the importance of strategic- and operational policy coherence, the focus of this paper is the forming of a national plan of action for the digitalisation of schools in Sweden (#skolDigiplan). Within this interview study, the views on policy work and challenges of digitalisation of schools are explored among an exclusive management group of non-traditional Swedish policy-makers appointed to produce the #skolDigiplan. Based on the findings, I conclude that national policy making regarding the digitalisation of schools may be conducted through a collective process, with several educational stakeholders contributing. Furthermore, I suggest that non-traditional national policy-makers, arguing a lack of digital competence knowledge concerning schools at the governing or authority level, may consider taking a step back in the policy-formation process as a supportive action. Teacher training programmes, despite being portrayed as important for the policy outcome, were declared distant in this policy process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- GOVERNMENT policy
TEACHER training
EDUCATION policy
SCHOOL rules & regulations
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20004508
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Education Inquiry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153311464
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2021.1917487