There are substantial and ongoing concerns in the international secondary and tertiary education sectors about the number of students choosing advanced or higher-level mathematics at upper secondary level. Declining enrolments in the last two years of secondary school in higher-level mathematics is seen as a major concern for the future of STEM…

Purpose: School leaders are critical to organizational change and school improvement, particularly through their role in facilitating teacher development. Yet the literature is thin regarding the extent to which various sources of evidence influence school leaders' decisions and regarding conditions that may shape differences in school leader…

This study examines South Korea's multicultural education policies through critical discourse analysis of policy documents from 2006 to 2024. As South Korea transitions to a multicultural society, education policies attempt to address increasingly diverse student populations. However, significant discrepancies exist between inclusive rhetoric and…

The purpose of this practitioner article is to present Biesta's three domains of educational purpose as an adaptable, pragmatic framework that provides stakeholders with language for navigating the complex endeavor of music teacher education in the United States. First, we describe how neoliberal policy has obscured questions of purpose and…

Medium of instruction (MOI) policy often takes form in diverse and creative ways. In the primary schools of the Aran Valley, Spain, Aranese (a variant of the minoritized language Occitan) is the official MOI, in coexistence with the other official languages of the region: Catalan and Castilian Spanish. In such cases of language revitalization,…

The landscape of higher education is rapidly evolving, presenting both new opportunities and significant challenges. In our interconnected world, institutions of higher learning must not only transmit knowledge but also actively address the social, economic, and cultural issues arising from diverse and dynamic societies. This book offers a…

Whilst teaching Assistants (TAs) are a crucial part of the education workforce, their role and contribution is little understood, even by teachers they work alongside. By giving a voice to TAs, The Teaching Assistant Dilemma helps to tackle this lack of understanding. Highlighting the problems TAs face, not just that their contribution is…

Parental rights have become perhaps the most important concept in contemporary educational policy debates. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual terrain around parental rights, their foundations, and how (or, indeed, whether) parental rights might fit into dominant theories of rights more generally. The author does not argue…

The work of teachers, as representative of a significant area of social policy, occupies many column inches in newspapers internationally every year. This paper takes a close, systematic look at the education coverage of one national Australian newspaper, over a 30-year period from 1993 to 2022. Focusing on representations of school teachers in…

This reflective article examines the work of Hurt, Roane, Simms, and Schell (1975), who surveyed remedial reading teachers to identify key personality traits essential to their profession. Their findings are contextualized within a broader historical framework, tracing significant educational policies and milestones that have shaped the field of…

More than thirty years on from the United Nations Convention of the Child honouring a child's right to be heard (Article 12) has unlocked a new frontier in ethical research. In education, children have demonstrated competence to contribute with insight to recent policy development in Australia. This paper provides further evidence of the critical…

The new California's Bilingual Teacher Performance Expectations (BTPE), adopted in 2021, are set to be implemented during the 2023-2024 academic year. Since the approval of the Bilingual Education Act in the 1960s, bilingual education in California has navigated its -- sometimes dramatically -- swaying state policies. Being one of the most…

In Ireland as elsewhere, the value of putting evidence and scientific advice at the centre of public policy-making, has rarely been more evident. The prominence of the science-policy interface has renewed interest in the prospects for evidence based policy (EBP) in education. Notwithstanding the political rhetoric around EBP in education, little…

Beginning in the mid-1980s, European governments have increasingly implemented performance-based funding systems for higher education. While a focus on the transnational pressures that contributed to the widespread adoption of performance-based funding in Europe accounts for the impetus for performance-based funding policies, it fails to address…

The European Union Framework Programme (EUFP) is the most institutionalised form of supranational thematic programming in the world and the centrepiece of European Union research policy. Since 1994, the EUFP has also funded collaborative research projects in the social sciences. Surprisingly, little attention has been paid to its genesis,…