Teach Truth to Power (häftad, eng)

How academics and researchers can influence education policy: putting research in a policy context, finding unexpected allies, interacting with politicians, and more.
 

Scholarly books and journal articles routinely close with policy recommendationsYet these recommendations rarely reach politicians. How can academics engage more effectively in the policy process? In Teach Truth to Power, David Garcia offers a how-to guide for scholars and researchers who want to influence education policy, explaining strategies for putting research in a policy context, getting “in the room” where policy happens, finding unexpected allies, interacting with politicians, and more.  
 
Countering conventional wisdom about research utilization (also referred to as knowledge mobilization), Garcia explains that engaging in education policy is not a science, it is a craft—a combination of acquired knowledge and intuition that must be learned through practiceEngaging in policy is an interpersonal process; academics who hope to influence policy have to get face-to-face with the politicians who create policy. Garcia’s experience as trusted insider, researcher, and political candidate make him uniquely qualified to offer a roadmap that connects research to policy.

He explains that academics can leverage their content expertise to build relationships with politicians (even before they are politicians); demonstrates the effectiveness of the research one-pager; and shows how academics can teach politicians to be champions of research.
 

Format	Häftad
Omfång	248 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	MIT Press Ltd
Utgivningsdatum	2022-02-01
ISBN	9780262543224