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Localism--the New Spirit of the Age?
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Schuller, Tom – Adults Learning, 2010
People live in curious political times when it can be hard to match ideology to party. The outstanding example is in penal policy. Kenneth Clarke announces his Conservative determination to reduce numbers in prison, and to develop alternatives to locking people up. Labour denounces this as soft on crime. Is this how people expect things to line…
Descriptors: Democracy, Local Government, Public Policy, Political Attitudes
Conspirators in a Neo-Liberal Agenda? Adult Educators in Second-Chance Private Training Establishments
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Walker, Judith – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study that explored the impact of neo-liberal policy and ideology on educators and directors working in second-chance Private Training Establishments (PTEs) which were created at the height of the neo-liberal reforms in New Zealand. By examining the experiences of 14 educators and directors in four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Educators, Political Attitudes, Economic Development
Training within Industry as Short-Sighted Community Literacy-Appropriate Training Program: A Case Study of Worker-Centered Training and Its Implications
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Remley, Dirk – Community Literacy Journal, 2009
This essay presents a case study of the modes used in training employees at a munitions plant in Ohio between 1940 and 1945. Theories of multimodal discourse and learning advanced by The New London Group (1996), Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen (2001) and Richard Mayer (2001) inform this analysis. With an unskilled labor force and many workers…
Descriptors: United States History, War, Weapons, Manufacturing Industry
Length of Compulsory Education and Voter Turnout--Evidence from a Staged Reform. CEE DP 108
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Pelkonen, Panu – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
It is possible that human capital produces positive externalities to the society indirectly, through non-market channels such as health or crime. Another such channel could be the effect of education on the functioning of democratic decision-making. Measures of the functioning of democracy are bound to be controversial, but one such measure--voter…
Descriptors: Evidence, Municipalities, Human Capital, School Restructuring
You Were Hired to Teach! Ideological Struggle, Education, and Teacher Burnout at the New Prison for Women
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Wright, Randall L. – Qualitative Report, 2004
Critical theorists consider schools as sites of ideological struggle. The following is an account of Suzette's (pseudonym) attempts to define the educational practices in a women's prison according to the democratic principles suggested in the Task Force Report on Federally Sentenced Women: Creating Choices, (Correctional Service of Canada, 1990).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Educational Practices, Institutionalized Persons
Community Resilience and the Impact of Stress: Adult Response to Israel's Withdrawal from Lebanon
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Kimhi, Shaul; Shamai, Michal – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
Against the background of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, we investigated the relationship between perceived community resilience and the effect of stress and life satisfaction. The research sample included 741 adults, aged 18-85. The participants were divided into four groups, three of which live close to the Israel-Lebanon border and were…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Life Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires