Conclusion: Toward a Renewed Understanding of Evidence-Based Policy in Education

Abstract

AbstractThis final chapter gives an overview of the main purposes and research problems that guided the POLNET-study, and it summarizes key findings and addresses certain topics in more detail. Moreover, the chapter discusses the results in relation to the theoretical approaches presented in the two first chapters of the book as well as in the light of contemporary research about policy knowledge transfer. Finally, the chapter reflects on the insight we gained by conducting an integrated research design in terms of a common Nordic research project, and points to the importance of analyzing the dynamic between state government and network governance in order to capture the meaning of evidence and expertise in a Nordic context.