New directions in education policy implementation : confronting complexity / edited by Honig Meredith I.

contents
1. Complexity and policy implementation : challenges and opportunities for the field
2. Communities of practice theory and the role of teacher professional community in policy implementation
3. Policy implementation and cognition : the role of human, social, and distributed cognition in framing policy implementation
4. Language matters : how characteristics of language complicate policy implementation
5. Revisiting policy implementation as a political phenomenon : the case of reconstitution policies
6. Connections in the policy chain : the co-construction of implementation in comprehensive school reform
7. Building policy from practice : implementation as organizational learning
8. Toward a critical approach to education policy implementation : implications for the (battle)field
9. An economic approach to education policy implementation
10. Social capital and the problem of implementation
11. Implementation research in education: lessons learned, lingering questions and new opportunities
includes bibliographical references and indexes.