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	Connecting Policymakers and Professionals to Build Research-Based Family Policy
STATE SEMINARS PUBLICATIONS FAMILY DATA FAMILY IMPACT TEACHING FAMILY POLICY SKILL BUILDING POLICY LINKS   Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars UW-Madison/Extension Nancy Nicholas Hall 1300 Linden Drive Madison WI 53706 Phone: 608-263-2353 Fax: 608-265-6048	Teaching Family Policy This section aims to begin a dialogue about the precepts and philosophies from which good courses and high teaching evaluations are made. We are interested in adding your ideas for teaching family policy courses on college campuses to our website. Please send your contributions to: Jennifer Seubert UW-Madison/Extension 1300 Linden Drive, Rm 130 Madison WI 53706 info@familyimpactseminars.org Introductory Family Policy Lecture Undergraduate & Graduate Syllabi Definitions & Dimensions Activities & Assignments Training & Internship Opportunities If you are an instructor interested in making family policy come alive for undergraduate and graduate students, check out the second edition of Karen Bogenschneider's book, Family Policy Matters: How Policymaking Affects Families and What Professional Can Do. Drawing on hundreds of studies in the last 20 years, this new edition brings a fresh perspective to family policy, underscoring why it is needed, and outlining how professionals can bring research and analysis to bear on policymaking. Bogenschneider incorporates new research and provides updates on recent policies that are changing the political landscape of families. She proposes a theoretical framework for conceptualizing policy issues in a way that holds the potential for overcoming controversy and identifying common ground. The accompanying Instructor's Manual provides step-by-step guidelines for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on family policy including: teaching philosophy a publication on teaching family policy in undergraduate and graduate classrooms an undergraduate and graduate family policy syllabus undergraduate and graduate daily lesson plans instructor activities, alternative activities, assignments and student handouts, and several classroom PowerPoint presentations. This book and manual are ideal for teaching family policy courses. Evidence-Based Policymaking: Insights from Policy-Minded Researchers and Research-Minded Policymakers provides an insider’s view of how the policymaking process really works. Through a series of in-depth interviews with researchers, state and federal level policymakers, and intermediaries who serve between the two, and a thorough review of the literature, the authors provide insight into how to strengthen the relationship between researchers and policymakers so as to increase the use of research in policymaking. It examines why researchers and policymakers do not easily interact and, when they do, why the communication is often strained. By closely examining this interaction, the authors provide insight in to their communication patterns and strategies for improving the interaction. The book reviews the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and approaches needed to take research findings from the laboratory to legislative bodies.
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