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Konno, Ko; Pullin, Andrew S. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Results of meta-analyses are potentially valuable for informing environmental policy and practice decisions. However, selective sampling of primary studies through searches exclusively using widely used bibliographic platform(s) could bias estimates of effect sizes. Such search strategies are common in environmental evidence reviews, and if risk…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Decision Making, Effect Size, Policy Formation
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Hunter, Jack; Runswick-Cole, Katherine; Goodley, Dan; Lawthom, Rebecca – British Journal of Special Education, 2020
This article offers a critical reflection on the function of education, health and care plans (EHCPs) in pathways to employment for disabled young people. We consider 'the education plan' as an artefact of special educational needs systems. We problematise the often taken-for-granted assumption that such plans are always and only a 'good' thing in…
Descriptors: Youth Employment, Learning Disabilities, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries
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Kelly, Darron – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2020
Though long recognized as a leading proponent of Critical Social Theory, Jürgen Habermas has achieved limited influence in educational administration and research. I argue that this circumstance is in large part due to a gap in understanding the historical changes evident in Habermas's theorizing of 'practical discourse' as a key component of his…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Critical Theory
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Raaper, Rille – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
Informed by policy sociology and a Foucauldian theorisation, this article explores how a selection of sabbatical officers from English students' unions formed their political subjectivity during the policy consultation processes leading to the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. Discourse analysis demonstrated a strong influence of the unions'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Unions, College Students, Professional Personnel
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Regmi, Kapil Dev; Andema, Samuel; Asselin, Marlene – International Review of Education, 2020
The global movement to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda rests on strengthening international connections and cooperation. However, in recent years nationalism and protectionism have been on the rise in donor countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. In this situation, Julius…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Sustainable Development, Policy Formation
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Warren, Peter – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2020
Evidence reviews, commonly confused with literature reviews, are a crucial method not only for collating and synthesising the evidence base, but also for determining what the quality of previous evidence is and extracting the most amount of value from previous studies using systematic techniques. The paper focuses on the use of evidence reviews to…
Descriptors: Energy, Climate, Public Policy, Evidence
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Décieux, Jean Philippe Pierre – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2020
Knowledge co-production is a solution-oriented approach to analysing real-life problems such as making the right decision in a given scenario. The most popular examples come from evidence-based policymaking contexts. Political decisions made in this way rely on specialist expertise co-produced in organisations that can be characterised as Hybrid…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Decision Making, Evidence, Content Analysis
Bedrick, Jason – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2020
For more than two decades, tax-credit scholarship (TCS) policies have helped American families provide their children with the learning environment that meets their individual needs. Now available in 19 states, nearly 300,000 students nationwide use tax-credit scholarships to attend the school of their family's choice. TCS policies create an…
Descriptors: Tax Credits, Scholarships, School Choice, Elementary Secondary Education
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Gavin, Mihajla; Stacey, Meghan – Journal of Educational Change, 2023
"Local Schools, Local Decisions" (LSLD) was a package of school autonomy reforms operating in the state of New South Wales, Australia from 2012 to 2020. The set of reforms centred on the devolution of additional powers and responsibilities to school principals, namely enhanced capacity to manage staffing and financial functions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Athreya, Aditi; Goddeeris, Idesbald – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
This article studies the relationship between the authorities of newly independent India and mission schools using the case of (and the perspective/sources from) the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Chotanagpur (then South Bihar, now Jharkhand). These relationships were marked by much tension in the late 1940s and early 1950s. An abundance of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
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Kim, Victoria; Gándara, Denisa; Ramirez, Catherine; Kaur, Navdeep; Jones, Michaela – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
In this study, light is shed on interactions among policy engagement, inequities in faculty labor, and the role of institutions of higher education in supporting or hindering policy work regarding faculty of color. Institutional support would increase the representation of people of color in policymaking settings and advance institutional goals…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Minority Group Teachers, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Diversity (Institutional)
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Gorry, Devon – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023
Children of teen mothers have worse academic, labor market, and behavioral outcomes in the United States, but it is not clear whether these poor outcomes are caused by having a young mother or driven by selection into teen motherhood. Understanding the reasoning behind poor child outcomes is important for designing effective policies to improve…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Correlation, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
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Hwang, Yohan; Ko, Yeonjoo; Shim, Sungok Serena; Ok, Seung-Yong; Lee, Hyunju – International Journal of STEM Education, 2023
Despite increasing awareness of the importance of promoting the social responsibility of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals, few intervention programs have been developed to enhance the social responsibility of college students or adults in the STEM fields. In this paper, we introduced a new instructional…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Social Responsibility, Intervention, Program Descriptions
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Dunlop, Lynda; Rushton, Elizabeth A. C.; Atkinson, Lucy; Blake, Celena; Calvert, Saul; Cornelissen, Eef; Dècle, Clémentine C. M.; DeSchrijver, Jelle; Dhassi, Kirndeep K.; Edwards, Rosalind P. R.; Malaj, Greta; Mirjanic, Jovana; Saunders, William E.H.; Sinkovec, Yara; Stadnyk, Tetiana; Štofan, Jaroslav; Stubbs, Joshua E.; Su, Chrissy; Turkenburg-van Diepen, Maria; Vellekoop, Suzan; Veneu, Fernanda; Yuan, Xinyue – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
Drawing on insights from a four-day online workshop, which explored geo-engineering and policy making with 13 youth participants, an academic and youth authorial team provide a guide to the co-creation of policy briefs. Drawing on excerpts from the policy brief at different stages of development and commentary provided by the authors during the…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, College Students
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Daramola, Eupha Jeanne; Allbright, Taylor N.; Marsh, Julie A. – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background: In recent years, school districts have experienced a complex policy environment with myriad reforms aimed at addressing longstanding and historically entrenched disparities in opportunities and outcomes between racially minoritized students and White students. One such reform is standards-based accountability, with its emphasis on…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Policy, Educational Policy, Racism
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