What influences how policy practice is enacted? (Part 3)


[A 6:47 minute video hosted on YouTube. English subtitles can be turned on if required]

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This is the fifth video in a series providing an understanding of local level policy practice and its development.

I hope that you find it provides a helpful way of thinking about the distal influences on policy practice performance.

I look forward to our discussions.

References and further reading

The video itself is reference free, but I would like to acknowledge that I have used ideas from the following sources as well as my own research.  I would recommend the texts as further reading too.

The framework of practice performance that I developed is predominantly based on the Theory of Practice architectures.  It was first articulated in 2008 and has evolved since.  Key sources (in chronological order) are:

  • Kemmis, S. and Grootenboer, P. (2008) ‘Situating praxis in practice’, in Kemmis, S. and Smith, T. J. (eds) Enabling praxis: Challenges for education. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers, pp. 37–62.
  • Kemmis, S., Edwards-Groves, C., Wilkinson, J. and Hardy, I. (2012) ‘Ecologies of practices’, in Hager, P., Lee, A., and Reich, A. (eds) Practice, learning and change: Practice-theory perspectives on professional learning. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, pp. 33–49.
  • Kemmis, S., Wilkinson, J., Edwards-Groves, C., Hardy, I., Grootenboer, P. and Bristol, L. (2014) ‘Praxis, practice and practice architectures’, in Changing practices, changing education. Singapore: Springer, pp. 25–43.
    Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R. and Nixon, R. (2014) The action research planner: Doing critical participatory action research. Singapore: Springer Link.
  • Mahon, K., Francisco, S. and Kemmis, S. (eds) (2017) Exploring education and professional practice. Singapore: Springer.
The dominance of the authoritative choice account of policy and its influence on the way policy practitioners talk about what they do is highlighted by:
  • Colebatch, H. (2009) Policy. Third Edition. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.
  • Maybin, J. (2013) Knowledge and knowing in policy work: A case study of civil servants in England’s Department of Health. PhD Thesis. University of Edinburgh. Available at: https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/8221 (Accessed: 26 February 2020).
  • van Mossel, C. (2016) Whither evidence-based policy-making? Practices in the art of government. PhD Thesis. University of Victoria. Available at: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/7439 (Accessed: 26 February 2020).
The use of external consultants for policy work has been researched by:
  • Howlett, M. and Migone, A. (2014) ‘Assessing contract policy work: Overseeing Canadian policy consultants’, Public Money and Management, 34(3), pp. 173–180. doi: 10.1080/09540962.2014.908007.
The trend referred to as mediatisation and managing the media as policy work has been described by:
  • Anderson, G. (2006) ‘Ministerial staff: New players in the policy game’, in Colebatch, H. (ed.) Beyond the policy cycle: The policy process in Australia. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen and Urwin, pp. 166–183.
  • McCallum, K. and Waller, L. (2017) ‘The dimensions of mediatized policy-making in Australian indigenous affairs’, European Journal of Communication Research, 42(2), pp. 173–193. doi: 10.1515/commun-2017-0013.
    Schillemans, T. and Karlsen, R. (2019) ‘Why do civil servants experience media-stress differently and what can be done about it?’, Policy and Politics, 47(4), pp. 599–620. doi: 10.1332/030557319X15613701092525.

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