Policy literacy

Abstract

This paper explores some aspects of the relations between literacy education and the processes and history of thinking about public policy-making. Policy is a broad field of practice that marshal sparticular kinds of knowledge to bolster executive action. Policy processes involve representations of fields of practice and can evolve ambiguous relations with practitioners in those fields. Scholars can have an ambiguous relationship with policy since policy draws on research evidence in motivated ways that shape and frame this information for action. The paper discusses two broad abstractions, knowledge and power, that constitute a heuristic of the policy moment. Policy representations of liter..