The Possibilities and Challenges of Data-Sharing to Inform Policy Advocacy and Enactment Across Organizations

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session brings together organizational leaders, boundary spanners, and education researchers who are advancing the field of education policy knowledge mobilization in their own contexts. This symposium purposefully builds connections between four key stakeholders in the K-12 education policy network to look at data-sharing needs, realities and historical challenges for policy stakeholders in Ontario, Canada (Ball, 2016; Howlett, 2009; Winton and Brewer, 2014). The discussion centres around how knowledge mobilization and data processes allow stakeholders to work across organizations towards policy enactment, advocacy, and development. It focusses specifically on data because of the ways they are used as tools of governance, accountability, and ultimately power, in education policy (Hansen, 2008; Lingard, Martino, and Rezai-Rashti, 2013; Ozga, 2009).

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 9: Policy Implementation and Going to Scale

Chair

• Annie Kidder, People for Education

Papers

• Achieving Policy Impact Through Knowledge Mobilization Networks: A Model Encouraging Co-Production and Brokering - Amanda Cooper, Queen's University; Stephen Macgregor, Queen's University

• Disconnected and Inaccessible: Advocacy and Policy Development in a Context of Failing Data Infrastructure - Kelly Gallagher Mackay, Wilfrid Laurier University

• Transforming Data Into Practice: Mobilizing System Data to Address Race and Disability Justice in Schools - Salima Kassam, Toronto District School Board; Gillian Parekh, York University

• Political, Ideological, and Operational Challenges and Opportunities of Identity-Based Data Collection, Integration, and Reporting - Vidya Shah, York University

Discussant

• Eloise Tan, People for Education