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Warren, Simon; Webb, Darren; Franklin, Anita; Bowers-Brown, Julian – Journal of Education Policy, 2011
This paper sets out the theoretical and methodological approach of a study of the politics of persuasion and the mobilisation of interest in relation to the Trust schools initiative in England. Drawing on the discourse theoretical approach of Laclau and Mouffe the paper argues that the politics of consensus associated with New Labour reconfigures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, School Administration, Governance
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Blumenreich, Megan – Teacher Education and Practice, 2011
Scholarly research is crucial to teaching and learning because it keeps the work of teacher educators and the teaching and learning in schools of education dynamic. Research fosters habits of critical reflection, encourages teacher educators to learn throughout their careers, and ensures that concepts in teacher education adapt to current…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Scholarship, Schools of Education, Teacher Educators
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Zembylas, Michalinos; Bekerman, Zvi – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This article presents an in-depth analysis of two commemoration events in a first-grade classroom of a bilingual school in Israel. The two events presented--the commemorations of the Holocaust Day and the Memorial Day--derive from a longitudinal ethnographic study of integrated bilingual schools in Israel. The analysis of these events shows…
Descriptors: Grief, School Desegregation, Bilingual Schools, Ethnography
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Lingenfelter, Paul E. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
Researchers, policy makers, and practitioners share a sincere interest in improving the human condition. Academics may be tempted to fault irrationality, ideology, or ignorance for the failure of research to inform policy and practice more powerfully, but policy makers and practitioners want academics to tell them "what works" in order to find a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Action Research, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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O'Neill, Arthur; Speechley, Bob – Australian Universities' Review, 2011
The authors want to figure out what happened in Australian post-secondary education over the last 50 or so years and to predict what sort of arrangement their great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren, will encounter 50 years hence. To put this modest project another way: what in 2060 might a historian (assuming there are, then,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational History, Educational Development, Trend Analysis
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Education Next, 2011
School reformers have made forward strides in the last ten years, and public debate has acquired a bipartisan cast. But just how successful have reform efforts been? The editors of "Education Next" assess the movement's victories and challenges. Two essays are presented in this issue's "Forum": (1) "A Battle Begun, Not Won" (Paul E. Peterson,…
Descriptors: Debate, Investment, Politics of Education, Educational Policy
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Gilead, Tal – Educational Theory, 2011
Today, the influence of economic thought on educational theory is evident. It seems to weaken, however, the further we travel back in history. In this article, Tal Gilead examines the historical origins of this influence. He shows that it first emerged in French educational thought during the second half of the eighteenth century. Through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics, Educational History, Role of Education
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Crivello, Gina – Journal of Youth Studies, 2011
The past few decades have witnessed international pressure to get more children in the world educated, for longer. The view that school education is core to definitions of good childhoods and successful youth transitions is increasingly widespread, globally and locally. However, structural inequalities persist and migration for education has…
Descriptors: Poverty, Young Adults, Academic Aspiration, Foreign Countries
Davies, Peter – Adults Learning, 2011
Like a lot of people, the author has been trying to get his mind around David Cameron's Big Society agenda, and what it means for his own institution, City Lit. There has already been a lot written about this subject, especially in the press, much of it reflecting a degree of scepticism. Where to start? The author thinks the Prime Minister tried…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Educational Policy
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Lovell, Phillip – New Directions for Youth Development, 2011
Issues pertaining to children often struggle to become public policy priorities. A clear demonstration of this phenomenon is the degree to which children are supported in the federal budget in comparison to other priorities. If issues pertaining to children struggle for the policy spotlight, subissues pertaining to them face an even greater…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Recreation, Advocacy, Institutional Advancement
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Thomas, Louise – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
Use of local environments and stakeholders to illuminate the school curriculum, and increase ownership of it, has been demonstrated by international research as an effective means by which to make the curriculum more relevant and engaging to students. Localism is a key tenet of the Government's policy platform, and in education policy the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
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Windle, Joel – Australian Educational Researcher, 2011
This paper explores some of the processes through which an educational policy agenda can be generated in the media sphere. It casts light on the roles of journalists and various types of expert in these processes as they pertain to critical literacy. I argue for the usefulness of cross-field performance as a concept which helps to illuminate the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Policy Formation, Expertise
Jean, Reggie – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Since 1964, the federal government has had two successful programs that have helped Americans from low-income and first-generation college backgrounds (whose parents never enrolled in higher education) prepare for and earn their college degrees, helping to stop the cycle of poverty. The federally funded TRIO programs (Upward Bound, Veterans Upward…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Programs, Educational Opportunities, Low Income
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Lau, Chui Shan – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2011
This study focuses on the transformation of pro-Beijing labour education in the socio-political context of Hong Kong. It explores the reasons that Hong Kong pro-Beijing educators initiated Workers' Night Schools for adults; the organisation of schools in many locales and the transformation of labour education that workers received in these…
Descriptors: Activism, Labor Education, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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McCluskey, Gillean; Kane, Jean; Lloyd, Gwynedd; Stead, Joan; Riddell, Sheila; Weedon, Elisabet – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2011
This paper examines the introduction of Restorative Approaches (RA) in schools in the UK, contextualising this within a discussion of international concerns about school safety, (in)discipline and school violence. It explores questions about the compatibility of RA with zero tolerance and positive/assertive discipline approaches and the use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Justice, Conflict Resolution, Theory Practice Relationship
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