[A 5:47 minute video hosted on YouTube. English subtitles can be turned on if required]
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This is the fourth 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 policy capacity which is a key proximal influence 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.
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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.
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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.
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Mahon, K., Francisco, S. and Kemmis, S. (eds) (2017) Exploring education and professional practice. Singapore: Springer.
Authors that have made distinctions between policy practitioners who are content specialists and those who are process generalists:
- Putland, A. D. (2013) The respective roles of technical and generalist policy specialists in the policy process. PhD Thesis. Southern Cross University. Available at: https://epubs.scu.edu.au/theses/301/ (Accessed: 26 February 2020).
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Page, E. C. and Jenkins, B. (2005) Policy bureaucracy: Government with a cast of thousands. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- Wu, X., Ramesh, M. and Howlett, M. (2017) ‘Policy capacity: Conceptual framework and essential components’, in Wu, X., Howlett, M., and Ramesh, M. (eds) Policy capacity and governance. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–25.
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