IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/eduaab/162-en.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Education policy implementation: A literature review and proposed framework

Author

Listed:
  • Romane Viennet
  • Beatriz Pont

Abstract

This literature review focuses on education policy implementation, its definition, processes and determinants. It aims to clarify what implementing policies involve in complex education systems to support policy work, building on the literature and country examples. An introduction delves into the reasons behind the need to update the concept of education policy implementation, which is defined as a purposeful and multidirectional change process aiming to put a specific policy into practice and which affects an education system on several levels.The paper then analyses the determinants that hinder or facilitate the process and groups them under four dimensions which support effective implementation: smart policy design, inclusive stakeholder engagement, conducive context and a coherent implementation strategy. Based on these dimensions, the paper proposes a generic framework and a complementary set of questions and principles for action that can guide policy makers to design, analyse and carry out their education policy implementation processes.

Suggested Citation

  • Romane Viennet & Beatriz Pont, 2017. "Education policy implementation: A literature review and proposed framework," OECD Education Working Papers 162, OECD Publishing.
  • Handle: RePEc:oec:eduaab:162-en
    DOI: 10.1787/fc467a64-en
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1787/fc467a64-en
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1787/fc467a64-en?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dimmock, Clive & Tan, Cheng Yong & Nguyen, Dong & Tran, Tu Anh & Dinh, Thang Truong, 2021. "Implementing education system reform: Local adaptation in school reform of teaching and learning," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).
    2. Daniella Troje, 2021. "Policy in Practice: Social Procurement Policies in the Swedish Construction Sector," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(14), pages 1-18, July.
    3. Richard Kwame Adom & Mulala Danny Simatele, 2022. "The role of stakeholder engagement in sustainable water resource management in South Africa," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 46(4), pages 410-427, November.
    4. Hazel S. Zamora, 2021. "Experiences on the Implementation of Child Protection Policies," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 5(10), pages 740-745, October.
    5. Ernest Kofi Davis & Forster D. Ntow & Christopher Beccles, 2022. "Factors Influencing Ghanaian Public Junior High School Students’ Performance in English Language, Mathematics and Science and its Implications on the National Policy on Progression," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(3), pages 21582440221, September.
    6. Matt Andrews, 2022. "Getting Real about Unknowns in Complex Policy Work," CID Working Papers 406, Center for International Development at Harvard University.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • A - General Economics and Teaching

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:eduaab:162-en. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/deoecfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.