Teachers as Policy Agents

What is it about?

Policy matters in education. Policy reflects and shapes society’s beliefs about schools, teachers, children, learning, and society, as well as the power structures embedded in our communities and decision-making processes. Although teachers may be part of the implementation of policy, they rarely are involved in the creation of it. This creates disconnect between the goals and design of education policy and the actual lived challenges of implementation. This paper focuses on how the actual nature of teaching and schools may get in the way of teachers being policy writers.

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Why is it important?

Hearing and being responsive to the voices of those on the "frontlines" of policy, leads to better policy.