An Ecology Metaphor for Educational Policy Analysis: A Call to Complexity
An Ecology Metaphor for Educational Policy Analysis: A Call to Complexity
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教育政策分析的生态学隐喻：对复杂性的呼唤
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2008
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Marcus B. Weaver
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Marcus B. Weaver
教育政策可以用生态学的隐喻进行有效的概念化。每一项政策都存在于一个复杂的系统中，反映了不同的国际、国家、区域和地方动态。使用这一比喻，政策分析师可以看到任何政策的不合理性和不规则性，它的过程，它的文本，它的接受，以及它的执行程度。政策生态学的特征提醒分析者注意重大转变的可能性，无论是好是坏，并为他们提供了一种概念化这种转变如何发生的方法。也许最重要的是，使用生态学隐喻提出了进步研究人员积极干预政策过程的具体方式。
Educational policy might productively be conceptualized with an ecology metaphor. Each policy, thus considered, exists within a complex system that reflects varied international, national, regional, and local dynamics. Using this metaphor provides policy analysts with a view of the regularities and irregularities of any policy, its process, its texts, its reception, and its degree of implementation. The characteristics of policy ecologies alert analysts to the possibilities of great transformation, for good or ill, and give them a way to conceptualize how such transformations occur. Perhaps most important, using an ecology metaphor suggests specific ways that progressive researchers might positively intervene in the policy process.