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Direct linkModupe Taylor-Pearce; Bidemi Carrol; George Bindi – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
This article investigates how school principals in Sierra Leone interpret and enact a national education reform program. Through a sense-making lens, this qualitative study explores how the principals perceive and enact a reform program while maintaining their leadership role within the schools and communities they serve. In this study, we collect…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Educational Change, Program Implementation
Download full textCarmichael, Colin – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2015
This study compares the judgments that teachers make on their students' mathematics achievement with results taken from Australia's National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). Using a sample of 2144 students, drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), the study develops two regression models: one with teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedShimahara, Nobuo – Comparative Education, 1984
The economic, social, and educational history of the Burakumin--a Japanese minority group--is traced since 1603. The role of Burakumin activism--plus increased national awareness and economic well-being--in promoting economic, social, and educational improvement is reviewed. It is noted that Burakumin progress toward further social and educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Acculturation, Achievement Gains, Activism
Peer reviewedWignaraja, Ponna – International Social Science Journal, 1996
Traces the search for economic development alternatives that go beyond conventional neo-classical and Marxist theory and practice. Outlines case studies of social and economic transformation in South Korea and China and delineates the differences between similar attempts in Latin America and Eastern Europe. (MJP)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Communism, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Change
Taylor, Sue – 2003
A study examined how further education (FE) colleges and Local Education Authority adult education services contribute to neighborhood renewal (NR) in deprived areas and how their strategic role might develop. The National Strategy for Neighborhood Renewal was tackling deprivation in 88 of England's poorest communities by promoting the development…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Citizen Participation, Colleges
Bordia, A. – 1981
Section 1 of this study reviews the insufficiency of literacy and basic education programs for adults offered by the colonial Ministry of Education in Zimbabwe prior to independence (1980). While section 2 emphasizes the significance of adult education for the new nation's development, including its implications for manpower training and the…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Adult Education, Adult Programs, African Culture
