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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Klein, Alyson – Education Week, 2011
A prominent and sustained White House push for renewal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is viewed as crucial to prospects for the 9-year-old law's reauthorization by a now-divided Congress. The law's current version, the No Child Left Behind Act, was President George W. Bush's signature domestic achievement when it was passed…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Kalifeh, Phyllis; Cohen-Vogel, Lora; Grass, Saralyn – Educational Policy, 2011
The authors analyze bills, congressional records, agency reports, and newspaper articles to trace the evolution of Project Head Start, by far the nation's largest federal early childhood program, beginning with the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Their analysis is organized around the policy goals embedded in the program and the governance…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Federal Government, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Filippakou, Ourania – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
The paper suggests that the idea of quality in higher education is ideologically constructed and conducted. In a spiral of mutual reinforcements, quality regimes naturalise experience, while the theories of that practice legitimise the naturalness of "quality". I shall suggest that quality regimes provide too narrow readings of higher education.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Ideology, Educational Practices
You, Jeongae – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
This paper captures a national curriculum maker's experiences of revising the physical education curriculum in South Korea. A self-study was conducted in order to make known the chairperson's experiences concerning the various obstacles encountered in revising the national curriculum and to offer previously unseen insights afforded by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Physical Education, Politics of Education