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Oakley, Ann – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2004
Policy makers and researchers may have different agendas as to what constitutes "evidence". This paper reviews some of the issues currently debated in the UK and elsewhere about researchers' understandings of how social research can usefully inform the policy-making process, and their techniques for making it available. Using examples…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Social Scientists, Policy Formation, Health Promotion
Pattison, Sue; Harris, Belinda – Australian Educational Researcher, 2006
This paper is set against the backdrop of an increasing number of strategies and policies developed by the Department for Education and Skills in the U.K. regarding the promotion of positive mental health in schools and the recognition of the value of improving mental health in relation to children's learning, achievement, attendance and…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Therapy, Literature, Young Adults