This paper offers a brief guide to implementation research and some of the conceptual and methodological issues it raises. In the course of reviewing investigations of the import of aspects of the 1988 Education Reform Act, it also considers the issues posed for education policy studies in a context where the ‘centre’ is connected to a dispersed and differentiated periphery.
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Fitz et al. (1994) studied this question.
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