1. Handbook
  2. Subjects
  3. Processes and Mobilities of Policy

Processes and Mobilities of Policy (EDUC91334)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

You’re viewing the 2025 Handbook:
Or view archived Handbooks

Overview

Availability
March
FeesLook up fees

This subject will examine the global mobilities of approaches to education policy and governance, including the processes involved in the movement of education policy ideas and the dynamics of local enactment. Students will analyse global/local intersections, focusing on the production and circulation of global policy trends and their impact and resistances regionally, nationally and locally. The subject will also involve a critical analysis of the role of education governance networks that influence policy processes, and the influence of different types of policy actors, including state and non-state institutions, organisations, businesses and individuals.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policy debates, globally and locally, and the theoretical frameworks that support critical analysis of the key perspectives and issues
  • Demonstrate an understanding of global education policy processes, including the mobility of ideas, and the intersection between global, regional, national and local perspectives
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the way education problems are framed, and the implications for the ways that diversity, inclusion, and social justice are enhanced through education, with a focus on the experience of First Nations people, and the contribution of First Nations knowledges
  • Demonstrate an understanding of educational research principles and methods to support critical reading of the scholarly literature on global/ local policy processes.

Generic skills

This subject will assist students to develop the following transferable skills:

  • Critical reasoning and thinking
  • Communication
  • Evidence based decision marking
  • Creativity and innovation.

Last updated: 8 November 2024