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Ciepielewska-Kowalik, Anna – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
Merton's law on unintended consequences (1936) warns against the undesirable and unanticipated outcomes of every action and policy. More recent research (Zhao, 2017) in the field of education, in relation to Merton, claims that these consequences are usually treated as inconvenient side effect of a policy, but are, in fact, planned by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Early Childhood Education, Government Role