Policy Futures in Education
Educational Policy
The journal is committed to promoting debate within actual existing policy communities. It publishes dedicated issues on current policy debates, national reviews, reports from international agencies, as well as traditional academic papers. It also contains a special feature that encourages debates through interviews (especially with politicians, members of government departments, experts), symposia, and right of reply.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Policy Statement
Why policy futures in education? The shift of gravity in politics and public policy has moved beyond the post-war welfare state settlement with its institutionalised compromise between the demands of capital and labour. Neoliberalism, with an emphasis on privatisation of public assets and services, has dominated Anglo-American politics over the last 20 years and continues to exert a strong influence on Third Way politics and policies. Globalisation, underwritten by developments in telecommunications and information technologies and the ideology of 'free trade' agreements, has continued apace, promoting a form of world economic integration. There has been a progressive automation of the tertiary sector and a shift to service-oriented industries, which has accompanied the rise of the 'knowledge economy'. At the same time, state education at all levels is now open to competition from non-traditional providers, as evidenced by the recent GATS agreement, and teachers' work has been reconceptualised. National governments, under the banners of 'choice' and 'diversity', are experimenting with new forms of schools and education that are based on customised responses to individual needs. The Labour Government in the United Kingdom, for instance, has talked of the 'end of the comprehensive era' - the end of mass schooling as we know it, and seeks to develop a range of specialist schools. All of these factors and trends, in their complex interaction, have increased the significance of education both as one of the leading services of the future and as one of the few governmental means through which issues of social inclusion, social cohesion, national culture and identity, and citizenship can be addressed. Policy Futures in Education intends to highlight these policy issues and to address the question of educational futures in all its policy aspects.
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Policy Futures in Education is an international peer reviewed journal which aims to be the leading inter-disciplinary journal in the field of policy in all areas related to education. The journal welcomes submissions from a broad range of disciplines underpinning policy studies, including Western, non-Western and indigenous perspectives of local and global policy. The journal publishes original research, contemporary debates, issues and interviews, new cutting-edge theoretical policy frameworks and outlooks and reviews of relevant books. The papers published in this journal represent rigorous research and scholarship and aim to lead up-coming and contemporary thought and thinkers in the field.
Policy Futures in Education publishes both regular issues and special issues on specific subject areas, policy commentaries and reviews of significant topics. The readership of the journal consists of academics, practitioners and policy makers across the disciplines and fields of education, sociology, anthropology, women and gender studies, critical psychology, philosophy, childhood studies, environment, law, human and social sciences, social work and many others.
| Marek Tesar | University of Auckland |
| Sonja Arndt | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| David W Kupferman | University of Hawaii–West Oahu, USA |
| Glenn Toh | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| George Lazaroiu | Spiru Haret University, Romania |
| Jennifer Boyd | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Vina Adriany | Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia |
| Kristine Alexander | University of Lethbridge, Canada |
| Ricky Lee Allen | University of New Mexico, USA |
| Antonio Amorim | University of Campinas, Brazil |
| Michael Apple | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Stephen Ball | Institute of Education, University of London, UK |
| Brian Barrett | State University of New York at Cortland, USA |
| Gert Biesta | The University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Edward Brockenbrough | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Nicholas Burbules | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Stefania Capogna | University of Rome, Italy |
| Mike Cole | University of East London, UK |
| Bronwen Cowie | University of Waikato, New Zealand |
| Amy Cutter-Mackenzie | Southern Cross University |
| Bob Davis | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Noah De Lissovoy | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Lynn Fendler | Michigan State University, USA |
| Derek R. Ford | Syracuse University, USA |
| Daniella Forster | University of Newcastle, Australia |
| Ivan Fortunato | Sao Paulo State University, Brazil |
| Jennifer M. Gidley | RMIT University, Australia |
| Sandy Grande | Connecticut College, USA |
| Nathan Harris | University of Rochester, USA |
| Sarah Hart | University of Hartford, USA |
| Joe Henderson | University of Delaware, USA |
| Anne Hickling-Hudson | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Dave Hill | Anglia Ruskin University, UK |
| Brian Holland | Policy Consultant, USA |
| Zhu Hongwen | Beijing Normal University, China |
| Nina Hood | The Education Hub, New Zealand |
| Joanne Hughes | Queen’s University Belfast, UK |
| Liz Jackson | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Romi Jain | Cleveland State University, USA |
| Petar Jandric | University of Applied Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia |
| Mirka Koro-Ljungberg | Arizona State University, USA |
| Bob Lingard | The University of Queensland, Australia |
| Sheila Macrine | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA |
| Gregory Martin | University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Camille Anne Martina | University of Rochester, USA |
| Peter Mayo | University of Malta, Malta |
| Marcia McKenzie | University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Peter McLaren | Chapman University, USA |
| Alex Means | University of Buffalo, USA |
| Linda Mitchell | University of Waikato, New Zealand |
| Maria Nikolakaki | University of the Peloponnese, Greece |
| Mark Olssen | University of Surrey, Guildford, UK |
| Filippo Gomez Paloma | University of Salerno, Italy |
| Tom Pedroni | Wayne State University, USA |
| Thomas Popkewitz | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Shirley Porter | Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, New Zealand |
| Jocey Quinn | London Metropolitan University, UK |
| Glenn Rikowski | Independent Scholar, UK |
| Fazal Rizvi | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Sarah A. Robert | University of Buffalo, USA |
| Peter Roberts | University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| Sophia Rodriguez | College of Charleston, USA |
| Klas Roth | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Carolyn Vander Schee | Northern Illinois University, USA |
| David Geoffrey Smith | University of Alberta, Canada |
| Richard J. M. Smith | Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, New Zealand |
| Georgina Stewart | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Sean Sturm | The University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| Juha Suoranta | University of Tampere, Finland |
| Khalida Tanvir Syed | University of Manitoba, Canada |
| Martin Thrupp | University of Waikato, New Zealand |
| Qingyan Tian | Ocean University of China, China |
| Angela Valenzuela | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Louis Volante | Brock University, Canada |
| Susanne Maria Weber | Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany |
| Anthony R. Welch | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Susanne Westman | Luleå University of Technology, Sweden |
| Christopher Winch | Kings College, London, UK |
| Jinting Wu | University of Macau, China |
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