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Sophia Leveque - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Research Guides: Seminar on Policy Practice I: Books
2017Co-Authors: Sophia LevequeAbstract:This research guide identifies some of the major resources that support research in the Seminar on Policy Practice at Columbia University's School of Social Work.
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Research Guides: Seminar on Policy Practice I: Citing Sources
2017Co-Authors: Sophia LevequeAbstract:This research guide identifies some of the major resources that support research in the Seminar on Policy Practice at Columbia University's School of Social Work.
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Research Guides: Seminar on Policy Practice I: News Sources
2017Co-Authors: Sophia LevequeAbstract:This research guide identifies some of the major resources that support research in the Seminar on Policy Practice at Columbia University's School of Social Work.
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Research Guides: Seminar on Policy Practice I: Getting Started
2017Co-Authors: Sophia LevequeAbstract:This research guide identifies some of the major resources that support research in the Seminar on Policy Practice at Columbia University's School of Social Work.
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Research Guides: Seminar on Policy Practice I: Academic Articles
2017Co-Authors: Sophia LevequeAbstract:This research guide identifies some of the major resources that support research in the Seminar on Policy Practice at Columbia University's School of Social Work.
Idit Weiss-gal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Policy Practice in social work education: A literature review
International Journal of Social Welfare, 2018Co-Authors: Idit Weiss-galAbstract:The aim of this study was to review existing knowledge on Policy Practice (PP) in social work education that seeks to train undergraduate and graduate social work students to influence social Policy. The review, based on different search strategies, identified 113 publications written by scholars from Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa, UK and the USA. The review revealed marked growth in interest in PP education between 1970 and 2014. This was reflected in articles that have reported on six areas: research on the place of PP in social work curricula; research on students’ preferences with regard to PP; recommendations on what to include in PP education; descriptions of actual pedagogical methods and courses; evaluations of actual pedagogical methods; and tools for assessing PP competencies. Most of this discourse was devoted to descriptions of PP courses and teaching methods and much less to systematic evaluation of PP teaching. Key Practitioner Message: • Policy Practice education is playing a growing role in social work training at both the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and Master of Social Work (MSW) levels; • The literature suggests a wide range of innovative experiential approaches in class and in actual Policy arenas; • To further strengthen the field, systematic evaluations of Policy Practice teaching innovations are required.
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The ‘Why’ and the ‘How’ of Policy Practice: An Eight-Country Comparison
British Journal of Social Work, 2013Co-Authors: John Gal, Idit Weiss-galAbstract:Abstract This article deals with the engagement of social workers in the Policy arena. It offers aconceptualframeworkfortheexaminationofwhysocialworkersengageinPolicyPracticeand how they actually do so. Drawing upon examples from a cross-national studycomprising eight countries, the Policy Practice Engagement (PPE) conceptual frameworkpresented in the article comprises three legs—Opportunity, Facilitation and Motivation.It is asserted that social worker involvement in the Policy arena and the form that thistakes will depend upon the degree to which political institutions are accessible to socialworkersandthedegreetowhichtheorganisationalcultureoftheirworkplacefacilitatesthis type of activity. It will also be related to the degree to which social workers aremotivatedtoengageinPolicyPractice.Thiswillbelinkedtotheprofessionalsocialisationprocess as wellas to individual characteristics and values.Keywords:Cross-national, Policyformulation, Policy Practice,social Policy Accepted: October 2013
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Policy Practice in Practice: The Inputs of Social Workers in Legislative Committees
Social Work, 2013Co-Authors: Idit Weiss-galAbstract:This article presents findings of an empirical study of the involvement of social workers in the Policy formulation process. Despite support for Policy Practice, there has been limited empirical study of social workers' involvement in Policy Practice, which leaves us with little systematic knowledge of social workers' role in the Policy formulation process. This study expands the knowledge of social workers' role in this process by identifying their inputs into Israeli legislative committees. Based on a content analysis of the minutes of 85 parliamentary committee meetings held during the 15th and 16th Knesset sessions (1999 to 2006), the study reveals five main inputs: placing matters on the agenda, providing information, providing explanations, expressing opinions and making suggestions, and commenting on the manner of the discussion, and 23 subinputs. These inputs underscore three main functions that social workers perform, or may perform, with respect to Policy: challenging Policy, facilitating Policy, and enriching Policy.
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Teaching Policy Practice: A Hands-On Seminar for Social Workers in Israel
Journal of Policy Practice, 2012Co-Authors: Idit Weiss-gal, Riki SavayaAbstract:The current question in social work discourse is no longer whether all social workers should be trained in Policy Practice, but how to train them. This article describes a three-semester long seminar in Policy Practice for social workers studying for their MSW at a university in Israel. The seminar sought to train the participants to integrate direct and Policy Practice in their daily professional activities. The article presents the findings of a controlled, pre-post, mixed-methods evaluation of the seminar. The findings show that the seminar increased the participants' sense of self-efficacy and their actual involvement in Policy Practice and that it brought a number of other benefits to them, their workplace, and the relation between the two.
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Social Workers and Policy Practice: An Analysis of Job Descriptions in Israel
Journal of Policy Practice, 2010Co-Authors: Idit Weiss-gal, Lia LevinAbstract:Social workers' involvement in the Policy-making process (Policy Practice) is an important aspect of social work. This article examines formal social work job descriptions in an effort to determine whether, and to what extent, social workers in Israel are required to engage in Policy Practice and which specific activities are required of them in this sense. A quantitative content analysis of 78 job descriptions showed that nearly half the descriptions stipulated at least one Policy Practice activity, usually within the organization itself. The analysis also indicated that Policy Practice is constructed largely as an administrative Practice, usually performed at managerial levels and defined narrowly.
William Locke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Reconnecting the Research–Policy–Practice Nexus in Higher Education: ‘Evidence-Based Policy’ in Practice in National and International Contexts
Higher Education Policy, 2009Co-Authors: William LockeAbstract:It is often claimed that research on higher education has had little or no impact on HE Policy-making, which is regarded as being largely driven by political ideology and the media and reinforced by little more than management consultancy. Recent higher education Policy, it has been argued, is ‘a research-free zone’ or at best ‘Policy based evidence’. Yet, ‘evidence-based Policy’ remains a key term in government rhetoric, and education ministries and higher education Policy bodies continue to commission research of various kinds. This paper argues that dichotomous approaches to the research–Policy–Practice nexus may have adopted an unnecessarily restrictive conception of ‘research’ and an idealized view of Policy-making and implementation as a rational and linear process. It argues that new approaches to building relations between the three domains are needed if the various communities are to develop a forward-looking perspective on the needs for research on higher education in the next 10–20 years.
Ivano Vassura - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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school climate research Policy Practice and teacher education
Analytica Chimica Acta, 2005Co-Authors: Daniele Fabbri, Francesca Sangiorgi, Ivano VassuraAbstract:Abstract The effectiveness of semiquantitative pyrolysis–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py–GC–MS) as a rapid analytical technique for sourcing continental organic matter (OM) in marine sediments was examined by comparison with classical GC–MS analyses of solvent extractable lipid markers. Py–GC–MS was directly applied to HCl/HF de-ashed surface sediment samples collected in five stations located in north western Adriatic Sea. The resulting pyrolysates were characterised by compounds indicative of different biological precursors (e.g. proteins, carbohydrates, chlorophylls), including lignin methoxyphenols diagnostic for continental inputs. The relative abundance of pyrolytic markers was compared to the distribution of n -alkanes, n -alkanols and sterols extracted from the same sediments and determined by GC–MS analyses. For each class of molecular indicators, the terrigenous to aquatic ratio (TAR) was determined as follows: relative abundance of methoxyphenol/protein markers (TAR PY ), concentration ratios of (C27 + C29 + C31)/(C15 + C17 + C19) n -alkanes (TAR HC ), (C26 + C28+ C30)/(C14 + C16) n -alkanols (TAR AL ) and sitosterol/cholesterol (TAR ST ). A positive correlation was found between TAR PY and both TAR HC and TAR AL indicating a decreasing contribution of land-plant-derived materials seaward in two investigated transects. TAR ST values displayed a different trend suggesting a mixed origin for sitosterol. The distribution of TAR PY values was also in good agreement with that of atomic C/N ratios. Considering the complexity of environmental systems (diagenetic alteration, different fractions of OM analysed) the obtained results indicate that the pyrolytic marker approach by Py–GC–MS is valuable for sourcing marine OM on a semiquantitative base, providing data consistent with GC–MS determinations of lipid markers and elemental bulk analyses.
Russell Ayres - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Systems theory and Policy Practice: An exploration
Policy Sciences, 2001Co-Authors: Jenny Stewart, Russell AyresAbstract:Systems approaches in Policy analysis have had a chequered history. Expectations that ‘hard’ (quantitative) systems analysis would lead to better answers to Policy problems have largely been disappointed. Yet systems theory has itself moved on, to embrace the concept of autopoiesis and a variety of soft systems methodologies. Collectively, these theories offer a way of analysing Policy quite distinct from the institutionalist approaches which tend to dominate the theory and Practice of Policy-making. Rather than selecting instruments to fit a particular kind of Policy problem (the conventional approach to Policy design) systems analysis suggests that the nature of the problem cannot be understood separately from its solution. For Policy problems characterised by complexity (such as those concerned with environmental management and regulation, and urban re-development) using systems concepts offers a way of rationalising aspects of existing Practice and of suggesting directions for improvement.
