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Baak, Melanie; McDonald, Sarah; Johnson, Bruce; Sullivan, Anna – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2023
Education plays an important role in the successful settlement and life outcomes of young people from refugee backgrounds. Because of this, research into young people from refugee backgrounds in education systems tends to focus on examples of "good practice" in terms of how these young people experience education. Yet, examples of good…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Refugees, Student Experience, Best Practices
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Turunen, Tuija A.; Rafferty, John – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2013
This article discusses the nature, power and effects of neo-liberal rationale in educational settings. By introducing discourse analysis of two cases, the influence of neo-liberal ideology on contemporary curricula and school programs were examined. The analysis showed that dominant discourses based on neo-liberal rationale presented themselves as…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Sanctions, Discourse Analysis, Educational Practices
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Sloan, Tine Falk – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
The current U.S. education agenda places unprecedented attention on improving the quality of its roughly fifteen hundred teacher preparation programs. The effort places considerable weight on measuring program effectiveness and includes a push to hold programs accountable for their graduates' effects on student performance. Concerns regarding the…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Accountability, Teacher Education Programs, Data
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Tan, Oon Seng – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
The meteoric increase in technological advancement in the last few decades has dramatically transformed how people live their lives. Innovation is seen to be essential as it ensures sustainable growth in a knowledge-based economy and a competitive global marketplace. Consequently, enabling innovation to occur becomes of prime concern to educators…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Educational Strategies
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Matoba, Masami; Shibata, Yoshiaki; Sarkar Arani, Mohammad Reza – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2007
This paper first reviews the literature on school-university partnerships to evaluate and describe challenges and paradigms of Japanese approaches to school-university partnerships in theory and practice. Secondly, it clarifies the role of three-year school-university partnership between the Nagoya University and the Tokai City Board of Education…
Descriptors: Intercollegiate Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Yeung, See-Wai Alison; Lee, Yeung; Yue, K. W. Ryan – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2006
Banks (2002) stated that to implement multicultural education successfully, we must think of the school as a social system. Therefore, if educational equity and excellence are to be provided to all students, a systemic Total School Environment [Banks (2001) "Cultural diversity and education: Foundations curriculum and teaching, 4th ed." Allyn and…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Multicultural Education, Equal Education, School Culture