NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 61 to 75 of 15,165 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gareth Evans – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
Accountability in education takes many forms. One of the most prominent in the Welsh context is school inspection, which is considered an important measure of school performance and a way of holding schools accountable for the public money they receive. However, inspections are not accepted as adding value to the system without exception, and much…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, School Effectiveness, Inspection
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Mark Birtles – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
This study explores the production, dissemination, and reception of the discourse of educational excellence and internationalisation in Japan's Designated National University Corporation System. The study frames the policy initiative within the longstanding goals of the Japanese government and demonstrates how the work of Michel Foucault helps…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Power Structure, Global Approach
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Louise Warwick-Booth; Ruth Cross; James Woodall – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2024
Background: Despite literature recognising the huge potential of co-production as a positive approach to evidence creation, there is a dearth of evidence about how co-production principles can problematise knowledge exchange, specifically in evaluation work. Aims: To critically examine three evaluation projects commissioned by voluntary sector…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Power Structure, Evidence, Information Dissemination
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Shiller, Jessica T. – Urban Education, 2024
As community schools grow in numbers, this article argues that the model needs to be interrogated in order to address the power imbalances that exist between non-dominant families and schools. This paper draws on a citywide study of parent interviews as well as public documents and interviews with key community school leaders in Baltimore to…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Family Involvement, Power Structure, Parent Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chanelle Wilson – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Enlightened by a student teaching presentation in a foundational educational studies course, I became committed to recognizing and unlearning practices of colonialism and oppression in my classrooms and teaching practice. Using critical autoethnography as the mode of inquiry, and drawing relationships between the Characteristics of White Supremacy…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Racism, College Curriculum, Educational Change
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Paul Kivel – Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 2024
In this piece, Kivel provides a necessary introduction to the concept of adultism and proposes practical steps for adults, including educators, youth workers and others, to take action to address adultism by becoming allies.
Descriptors: Adults, Youth, Power Structure, Trust (Psychology)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Aylin Kirisci-Sarikaya; Halim Guner – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
With the global increase in refugees, understanding and improving the educational experiences of refugees has received more attention in academic research. This study aims to investigate the perspective of preservice teachers (PSTs) towards Syrian refugees, who are one of the largest groups of refugees in Turkey. The study explores the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Preservice Teachers, Social Bias
Mistie M. Parsons – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Since at least the publication of "A Nation at Risk" (1983), the United States has used competition and top-down approaches in seeking student achievement in the country. Twenty years ago, to create a pathway for the lowest achieving schools in the country to have a clear path for improvement, the turnaround school movement was…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Females, Educational Improvement, Gender Bias
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jennifer Charteris; Dianne Smardon; Stephen Kemmis – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
A mosaic approach to leading practices leverages collaboration and makes it possible to renew the social fabric of a school. In this article, the authors use the notion of a 'mosaic of leading "practices'" to unsettle top-down, hierarchical, positional conceptions of leader"ship" that focus on "participants." The…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Leadership, Communities of Practice, Power Structure
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Durose, Catherine; Perry, Beth; Richardson, Liz; Dean, Rikki – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
There has been encouragement from funders, universities and academics to co-produce research. Co-production of research can be considered a methodology in its own right, or an underpinning set of principles for other methods. Co-production aims to reshape relations between the researched and the researcher. Yet, co-producing research rarely starts…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Q Methodology, Research Projects, Politics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McLaughin, Conor P.; Colquitt, Keenan, Jr. – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2023
This article will situate the development of critical consciousness within practices of leadership and as a conduit for building a commitment to justice. Authors will focus on how this can be developed in those who are situated in privileged positions in systems of power.
Descriptors: Whites, Masculinity, Consciousness Raising, Critical Theory
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Toy, Hakki – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
It can be said that there is a large literature on the metamorphosis in the direction of marketization brought about by capitalist globalization in the academic field. In the aforementioned literature, it is stated that the academy operates more and more with the rules of the capitalist market and therefore academic study, education and training…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Self Concept, Ideology, Power Structure
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Patoulioti, Eleni; Nilholm, Claes – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
Research on inclusive education often derives from a broader understanding of inclusion, namely as a radical change in schooling. Within this strand of research, several authors in the field have envisioned this change to be materialised in the image of schools and classrooms as communities with various characteristics where differences are seen…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Inclusion, Community, Educational Environment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nina Flodin; Stina Lejtzen; Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir – Journal of School Nursing, 2025
Schools are important arenas for mental health promotion initiatives. School nurses have the opportunity and ability to support and promote students' mental health, but their role and practices have been perceived as somewhat unclear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore school nurses' mental health promotion practices. A total of 12…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Health Promotion, Mental Health, Role
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  ...  |  1011