Evidence-based Education Policy

by David Bridges

This book raises important questions about the extent to which policy can be derived from research and about the kind of evidence which should inform policy. Challenges contemporary orthodoxies and offers constructive alternatives Critiques the narrower conceptions of evidence which might inform policy advanced by the 'what works' movement Investigates the logical gaps between what can be shown by research and the wider political requirements of policy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405194111
• ISBN13: 9781405194112
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"