Examining 'Global Education Policy': Understanding the Origins, Impact, and International Diffusion of Teach First

我的研究重点是“以教为先”，以及一些更大的问题，比如一个地方的项目和政策是如何在其他环境中传播和出现的，以及这些想法是如何在这个过程中被重新发明的。在我的博士学位期间，我研究了“教育优先”的启动，并探索了政府之外有影响力的个人或政策企业家如何利用他们的社会网络来制定和制定政策。Teach First是从美国引进的理念，2002年由这些政策企业家发起，是英国著名的教师招聘和“领导力发展”快速通道计划。它的目标是提高资源不足学校学生的成绩，方法是让“顶尖”毕业生在两年的时间里成为高效的教师，同时将他们培养成追求各种职业的领导者，同时继续参与改善教育。我的博士研究通过采访50人，并从相关文件、媒体报道和网站收集数据，探讨了政策企业家如何在2001年至2003年期间游说、启动和实施他们的计划。通过仔细分析，我将不同类型的数据结合起来，写出了这个项目是如何以及为什么产生的政策“故事”。这个故事揭示了最初基于美国的计划是如何在三个关键点上发生重大变化的，以克服一些人对这个想法的抵制，并获得其他人的认可。该研究还揭示了政策企业家用来建立有影响力的网络以转移政策的策略。我将通过奖学金与他人分享我的研究成果，使其对他人有用，并发展我的知识、技能和作为学术研究人员的职业生涯。首先，我将把我的博士研究改编成书出版。这将使更多的观众对它感兴趣。此外，我将发表三篇期刊文章，重点介绍我的研究中有价值的见解，以告知教育和政策方面的其他研究人员。通过这种方式，我将与广泛的受众分享我的研究，并建立一个出版记录，以建立我的职业生涯。这些出版物还将扩展“教为先”非常有限的研究。为了进一步扩展我的研究，并使其对实践者有意义，我将从那些与之合作的人的角度来探讨Teach First对教育的影响——这是一个迄今为止被忽视的观点。为此，我将为与Teach First合作的学校的中层领导举办五次研讨会，并为培训Teach First教师的大学教师教育工作者举办两次圆桌会议。在这些会议中，与会者将以创新的方式分享他们对“教学为先”的经验和看法。为了有效地实现这一目标，我将首先开设三门课程，教授研究人员如何设计活动，使人们能够以协作和创造性的方式表达和交换意见。通过这些活动，我将收集数据，了解Teach First对学校和教师教育的影响，使我能够计划未来的研究项目。那些参加这些活动的人，以及后来读到我的报告的人，也将受益于从那些正在经历它的人的角度对“教育优先”有了新的理解。在奖学金期间，我还将通过联系其他国家的研究人员来建立专业网络，并分享我的研究成果，这些国家已经启动了一个“以教为先”的项目。通过这种方式，我将开始建立一个研究网络，重点研究世界范围内的Teach first类型的项目，以及这些项目如何以及为什么在国际上迅速传播。为了分享我们的初步研究成果，我将在国际学术会议上组织一次研讨会，并安排我们的工作作为特刊发表。最后，我将参加额外的课程，以发展我的专业知识和技能，进行不同类型的研究。

My research focuses on Teach First and bigger questions regarding how programmes and policies in one place travel and appear in other contexts and how those ideas are reinvented in the process. In my PhD, I examined the launch of Teach First and explored how influential individuals outside of government, or policy entrepreneurs, used their social networks to shape and develop policy. Teach First, which was an idea imported from the U.S. and launched by such policy entrepreneurs in 2002, is a prestigious fast-track teacher recruitment and 'leadership development' scheme in the UK. Its aim has been to raise achievement among pupils in under-resourced schools by turning 'top' graduates into effective teachers for two years while developing them into leaders who pursue a variety of careers but stay involved in improving education.My doctoral research explored how policy entrepreneurs lobbied, launched, and implemented their idea for the programme between 2001 and 2003 by interviewing 50 people and collecting data from related documents, media accounts, and websites. Through careful analysis, I combined the different types of data to write the policy 'story' of how and why the programme came about. The story revealed how the original American-based idea for the scheme was significantly changed at three critical points to overcome some people's resistance to the idea and gain the approval of others. The study also uncovered the strategies policy entrepreneurs used to build influential networks to transfer policy.I will move the research forward by sharing it with others through my Fellowship in ways that will make it useful to others and develop my knowledge, skills, and career as an academic researcher. First, I will adapt and publish my doctoral research as a book. This will make it available and interesting to wider audiences. In addition, I will publish three journal articles focusing on valuable insights from my research to inform other researchers in education and policy. In this way, I will share my research with a wide range of audiences and establish a publishing record on which to build my career. The publications will also expand the very limited research on Teach First. To extend my research further and make it meaningful to practitioners, I will explore Teach First's impact in education from the view of those who partner with it - a perspective that has so far been neglected. To do this, I will run five workshops for middle leaders in schools working with Teach First and two roundtables for university-based teacher educators who train Teach First teachers. In these sessions, attendees will share their experiences and views on Teach First in creative ways. To effectively achieve this, I will first take three courses teaching researchers how to design activities that enable people to express and exchange their views in collaborative and creative ways.Through these events, I will collect data to understand the impact of Teach First in schools and teacher education, enabling me to plan for future research projects. Those attending these events - and later, others who read my report on their outcomes - will also benefit by gaining a new understanding of Teach First offered from the perspective of those who are experiencing it.During the Fellowship, I will also build professional networks and share my research by contacting researchers in other countries where a Teach First-inspired programme has been launched. In this way, I will begin develop a research network focused on Teach First-type programmes worldwide and how and why such programmes are rapidly spreading internationally. To share our preliminary research, I will organise a symposium at an international academic conference and arrange to have our work published as a special issue journal.Finally, I will take additional courses to develop my professional knowledge and skills in conducting different types of studies.