How does, or could, policy practice develop?

[A 6:38 minute video hosted on YouTube. English subtitles can be turned on if required]

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This is the eighth and final 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 development of policy practice.

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.

In addition, ideas about developing practice are drawn from:

  • Cook, S. D. N. and Wagenaar, H. (2012) ‘Navigating the eternally unfolding present: Towards an epistemology of practice’, American Review of Public Administration, 42(1), pp. 3–38. doi: 10.1177/0275074011407404.
  • Kemmis, S. (2009) ‘Understanding professional practice: A synoptic framework’, in Green, B. (ed.) Understanding and researching professional practice. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers, pp. 19–38.
  • Manley, K., Titchen, A. and McCormack, B. (2013) ‘What is practice development and what are the starting points?’, in McCormack, B., Manley, K., and Titchen, A. (eds) Practice development in nursing and healthcare. Second Edition. Chichester, UK: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 45–65.

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