Research has long suggested that the policy of school inspection, implemented through the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) in England, has psychological and physical effects on teachers that can be defined as toxic. Concern over this issue intensified following media reports linking a headteacher's suicide to a negative Ofsted inspection…

Research has long suggested that Ofsted, the school inspection service in England, has a negative impact on teachers and school leaders. Concern over this issue intensified following media reports linking the suicide of a primary headteacher, Ruth Perry, to a negative Ofsted report in early 2023. Existing analysis of the inspection policy is…

The decline of U.S. higher education has been slow and methodical over the past 40 years, often taking advantage of crises such as 9/11 or the 2008 Great Recession to enact crackdowns on academic freedom while cutting university budgets. However, the second Trump administration has prosecuted a direct and sustained attack on the financial,…

This essay considers the variants of liberal education that have arisen outside of the United States, conceptualizing liberal education as a loosely transferred "ideal type" and the United States as a "reference society." The geopolitical framings (i.e., American style, European model, Asian approach) that differentiate global…

The aim of this paper is to map a line of theorizing affect and its entanglement with post-truth, and use this theorization to think about what it could mean for the role of educators--that is, what can be done in education to respond critically to the affective infrastructures of post-truth politics? This question arises at a historical juncture…

In this article, we propose a framework for understanding career guidance policy. We use a systems theory approach informed by Gramscian theories of politics and power to make sense of this complexity. Firstly, we argue that career guidance policy is made by and for people and that there is a need to recognise all of the political and civil…

The relationships between teachers' commitment to internal and external stakeholders of school and their relation to gender, age, length of service in school and in teaching profession, and level of education were examined in this study. The research used a relational screening model. The sample group determined by the simple random method…

This article describes the results of a game ("Zombie Federalism") created for a lower-level political science elective, State and Local Politics. This game was created to improve both retention of course material and enthusiasm in a historically underperforming course. In the game, students play the roles of officials in different…

In this paper, I examine memory as it relates to politics and early childhood education in the context of the internationally known preschools of Reggio Emilia in Italy. I draw a connection between foundational stories, ideologies connected to Italian politics in the 1970s, and the construction of the educational visions in these preschools. To do…

While updating standards is done from time to time to reflect a changing world, content within them is ripe for ideological contestation as it reflects the official curriculum that schools follow; in the case of Social Studies education, standards hold the potential to impact students' understandings of civics and citizenship. Ambiguity…

Political parties are widely recognised as indispensable actors in democratic systems. One way to illustrate the actions and role of political parties is to explicate various party functions that may be carried out in a political system. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationships between the organisation of party education and five…

The word 'care' has been removed from Norway's most recent framework for early childhood teacher education. According to ECEC practice policy, care is foundational in ECEC and teachers are expected to care, yet caring is not mentioned in the Framework's description of ECEC, nor is it included as a knowledge or skill goal. Why does care occupy a…

For Hannah Arendt, authority is the shape educational responsibility assumes. In our time, authority in Arendt's sense is under pressure. The figure of Greta Thunberg shows the failure of adult generations, taken collectively, to take responsibility for the world and present and future generations of newcomers. However, in reflecting on Arendt's…

Due to fast and unpredictable developments, professional education is challenged with being responsive, which demands a rethinking of conventional curriculum development approaches. Yet, literature on curriculum development falls short in terms of recognising how to react rapidly and adequately to these new developments. This study focuses on…

Background/Context: Recent accounts of learning from experience in education tend to impoverish development and temporal processes as constructive categories for thinking about freedom and action. Drawing on Jacques Rancière's critique of development, Gert Biesta's 2010 article, "How to Exist Politically and Learn from It: Hannah Arendt and…