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Hughson, Taylor A.; Wood, Bronwyn E. – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
The 'Learning Compass 2030' was released by the OECD in 2019 as their new policy framework for the compulsory schooling sector. This framework takes the bold step of asserting that access to disciplinary knowledge is central to schooling, putting it in stark contrast to previous OECD reports which have advocated instead for more generic skills and…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Knowledge Level, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Ecclestone, Kathryn; Lewis, Lydia – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
"Resilience" has become a popular goal in research, social policy, intervention design and implementation. Reinforced by its conceptual and political slipperiness, resilience has become a key construct in school-based, universal interventions that aim to develop it as part of social and emotional competence or emotional well-being.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Intervention, Case Studies
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Kennedy, Aileen; Doherty, Robert – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
A critical reading of the Donaldson Report on teacher education in Scotland reveals what might be termed a "panacea approach" to addressing perceived current problems in relation to the quality of teacher education. In particular, the essence of the Donaldson Report is that teachers need to embrace "twenty-first century…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
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Foster, Sue – Journal of Education Policy, 2001
Examines curriculum and assessment policy in Australian vocational education and training, enacted through demand-side market-oriented policies since the 1990s. In contrast to this rational, positivist, and managerial approach, advocates an alternative coherentist view that favors pragmatic, problem-solving approaches to curriculum and assessment…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Problem Solving
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Crump, Stephen James – Journal of Education Policy, 1992
Educational reforms and legislative initiatives in Australia and internationally during the late 1980s imposed new political solutions for problems experienced in educational settings. This paper explores the significance of education to politics, through a brief history and reference to comparative studies. The radical conservatism of the 1990s…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Role, Conservatism, Educational Change
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Gale, T. C. – Journal of Education Policy, 1994
Examines the politics of policymaking within the context of Australian university entrance policy. Argues that policy making is more concerned with the social construction of policy problems than with their resolution. Stories of university entrance were absorbed within the government's reform agenda via participative processes restricted to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries