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Workplace Policy and Practice

LO1. Critically interrogate a particular educational policy and practice including the assumptions, values and features of that particular setting.
LO2. Critically analyse the broader social, economic and political context of educational policy making.
LO3. Develop a critically reflective approach to policy analysis as a part of ongoing professional development and responsibility.
LO4. Communicate to an audience of colleagues and peers how policy is experienced, interpreted and enacted by educational workers

Assessment 1- Short Written Essay

The aim of this first assignment is to connect you with some of the key ideas in the Learning Guide and readings about the nature, purposes and processes of critical policy analysis.

The paper should have two parts:

Based on your reading, annotated bibliography and reflections prepare a short written paper that explains your understanding of critical policy analysis and why it should be important to teachers. The intent is to develop a rationale for studying policy ‘critically'. Imagine you are writing this for your colleagues in a staff newsletter or a professional journal. Boost your grades with expert-level assignment help today.

Begin to describe how such an approach might open up some possibilities for analyzing a particular policy, theme or topic of interest to your educational setting (classroom, school, institution, community). In this task you might want to begin to identify some preliminary thoughts about why this policy is of importance, what it says, where has it come from, and how you might begin to understand it ‘critically'.