KNOWLEDGE UTILIZATION IN EDUCATIONAL-POLICY AND POLITICS - CONCEPTUALIZING AND MAPPING THE DOMAIN

Based on the authors' work on the Knowledge Base Project for the Unive rsity Council for Educational Administration, they have constructed a heuristic, conceptual map of how knowledge is used in educational poli cy and politics. III this article, they present this conceptual mop an d analyze its implications for research and practice. The basic framew ork, which is graphically represented and explained, consists of three intersecting dimensions: policy control mechanisms, paradigm versus p arameter-knowledge types, and five distinctive analytical level. The a uthors find that a troublesome gap exists between believable paradigms of educational policy and politics and documented operational paramet ers for these paradigms. Problems such as these, highlighted by the ma pping, suggest areas in which future research is especially needed.