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JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 547-560Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02680931003698544
Keywords
policy; enactment; secondary schools; personal learning and thinking skills
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- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/G008582/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/G008582/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This paper presents a first attempt in an ongoing research study of the policy environments in four UK secondary schools to examine policy enactment, where 'enactment' refers to an understanding that policies are interpreted and 'translated' by diverse policy actors in the school environment, rather than simply implemented. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part presents an audit of the policies encountered in four case study schools in the south-east of England. The second part looks at one current English government policy, namely personal learning and thinking skills, and how this is taken up in two of the case study schools. In this way, the paper not just explores why a policy is adopted but also illustrates the capacity for school-based policy elaboration, where schools produce their own 'take' on policy, drawing on aspects of their culture or ethos, as well as on the situated necessities.
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