Ecosystem Policies and Guidelines

Content around policies, norms, guidelines, frameworks that are established in the K-12 ecosystem that influence the functioning of schools and schooling. This could include guidelines and regulatory frameworks that emerge from the work of world wide bodies such as UNICEF, guidelines that are normative emerging from research and academic work, specific guidelines and policies that emerge from partnership and networking of entities and actors in the ecosystem.

The field of educational leadership has recognized the growing influence of non-state actors, world bodies and ecosystem actors’ and their own work as influencing significantly educational outcomes, Off these, increasingly guidelines, and policies instituted by these entities move from being normative to regulative. For example, the idea of education within the Sustainable Goals framework, for which India is a signatory has some compliance requirements mandated of schools. Similarly guidelines emerging on participatory and inclusive schools, community involvement in schools, funding norms requiring specific resources in schools or re-structuring of schools all have significant impact on school work. Content that helps leaders understand the interconnections between actors/entities, policies and guidelines in an increasing globalized world is an important sub-domain within educational leadership.

Policies on education worldwide, UN guidelines, guidelines on participatory school, guidelines on safety and security in schools, Child protection act, Prevention of sexual abuse of children, Millennium development goals and education, Sustainable Development Goals and education, SDG and schools, Community and school participation guidelines