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Understanding Education Policy:Phenomena,Issues,and Values

Lin Xiaoyin

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How to understand education policy often puzzles education policy researchers.This pa- per first aims to analyze education policy issues and their nature in the policy phenomena.Then, based on educational attribute as a kind of quasi-public goods,it concludes that education policy is that the government,as the public authority,provides different types of solutions and government's behaviors in order to meet the conflicting needs for educational products through choosing the values laden in the education.This analysis integrates the two perspectives of educational policy:from bottom to topandfrom top to bottom,and as a result,highlights the multi-dimensional,public and value-laden characteristics of education policy.

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Key concepts: Education policy, Public policy, Government (linguistics), Value (mathematics), Order (exchange), Policy analysis, Public education, Public administration