RSVP
Date:
Tue Oct 22, 2024
9:30 – 11am
Location:
PCN 2012
6445 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Speaker:
Kashif Raza
About the event:
Researchers interested in educational policy and governance often face the controversy of whether educational policies guide institutional governance or whether institutional governance controls the formation, implementation, and revision of educational policy. However, they generally agree that the two are interconnected and influence each other. In this session, I will discuss the relationship between educational policy and governance, as well as the debates surrounding their mutual influence. After unpacking the traditional understanding of policy and governance at three levels (macro, meso, and micro) and the limitations of this scholarship, I will present a holistic educational policy-governance approach (HEPGA) that emphasizes the complexity, interconnectedness, and collectivism that characterize contemporary educational policy-governance practices.
Bio:
Kashif Raza is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Educational Studies, UBC. His Postdoctoral research focuses on the work-integrated learning of skilled immigrants in Alberta and Canada. With a multidisciplinary background in education, law, and applied linguistics, Kashif’s research interests include education law, educational leadership in changing times, language policy, multilingualism in TESOL, transnational migration, and South Asian diaspora in Canada.