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                             Education Policy
                             Education policy is high on the agenda of governments across the world. global 
                             pressures focus increasingl attention on the outcomes of education policy 
                             and on their implications for economic prosperity and social citizenship. 
                             The experience of each individual learner is therefore decisively shaped by 
                             the wider policy environment. However, there is often an underdeveloped 
                             understanding of how education policy is formed, what drives it and 
                             how it impacts on schools and colleges. This book explicitly makes these 
                             connections and links these to the wider challenges of educational leadership 
                             in a contemporary context.
                                Education Policy: Process, Themes and Impacts is divided into three 
                             sections and explores and links three key aspects of policy:
                             •   Policy and Education focuses on the development of policy at the level 
                                 of both the nation-state and the individual institution.
                             •   Themes in Educational Policy explores the forces that shape policy with 
                                 a particular emphasis on the themes of human capital theory, citizenship 
                                 and social justice and accountability.
                             •   The Impact of Educational Policy illustrates how policy develops in 
                                 practice through three research-based case studies, which highlight the 
                                 application of policy in a range of situations from the development of 
                                 school-based policies in multi-ethnic communities to the formulation 
                                 and implementation of strategic policy and planning in international 
                                 contexts.
                             The book develops a powerful framewok for policy analysis and seeks to 
                             apply this to the formulation and implementation of policy in a range of 
                             international settings. In so doing the authors make an important connection 
                             between theoretical frameworks of policy analysis and the need to anchor 
                             these within an evidence base that is grounded in empirical research.
                                Education Policy: Process, Themes and Impacts is part of the Leadership 
                             for Learning series that addresses contemporary and major themes within 
                             educational leadership, including: policy, leadership, human resource 
                             management, external relations and marketing, learning and teaching, and 
                             accountability and quality. The series aims to provide a valuable resource 
                             for students, practitioners, middle managers and educational leaders in all 
                             sectors, both in the UK and internationally, who are engaged on masters 
                             and doctoral degrees, or undertaking leadership training and preparation 
                             programmes
                             Les Bell is Professor of Education at the Centre for Educational Leadership 
                             and Management and Director of the Doctor of Learning programme.
                             Howard Stevenson is a lecturer in Educational Leadership and Management 
                             based at the Centre for Educational Leadership and Management, Univeristy 
                             of Leicester
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