Policy-Making in Education

This book is based on the notion that an adequate response to globalization challenges requires a holistic approach to several different dimensions - immigration, technology, economy, and environment - as well as effective collaboration and coordination among the central domains of education: curriculum, teaching, and teacher education.

This book is based on the notion that an adequate response to globalization challenges requires a holistic approach to several different dimensions - immigration, technology, economy, and environment - as well as effective collaboration and coordination among the central domains of education: curriculum, teaching, and teacher education. Several cases of policy-making are presented in order to elicit common features as guidelines for the holistic policy-making model proposed in this book. First, this central framework views the different dimensions of globalization as requiring connection and integration. Second, the proposed approach asserts that three major aspects of education that are vital for policy in education - curriculum, teaching, and teacher education - must also be integrated. Finally, the process of policy-making is perceived as requiring close interaction and coordination between diverse stakeholders and representatives of the different aspects of globalization. The book presents a conceptual model for policy-making, as well as details of operational steps in this process.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Global Changes: For Better or Worse?
Chapter 4 Demographic Changes: Who Is Who in a Global World?
Chapter 5 Economic Globalization: For Richer for Poorer, for Better for Worse
Chapter 6 The Information Highway: Where Does It Lead?
Chapter 7 Environmental Degradation
Chapter 8 The Magic Number 3: Coordinating Three Domains of Education in Response to Globalization
Chapter 9 The Curriculum Domain and Policy-Making in Education
Chapter 10 The Role of Teachers and Policy-Making in Education
Chapter 11 Teacher Education and Policy-Making in Education
Chapter 12 The Anatomy of Policy-Making in Education: My Personal Experiences and Beyond
Chapter 13 The Case of Reform of the Israeli Matriculation Examinations
Chapter 14 The Case of Reform of Teacher Education
Chapter 15 Educational Reform in Israel: An Example of Synergy in Education
Chapter 16 Policy-Making in Education in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 17 Modes of Policy-Making in Education
Chapter 18 Factors and Stakeholders that Influence Education Policy
Chapter 19 A Holistic Framework for Policy Making in Education in Response to Global Changes
Chapter 20 Epilogue