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Munns, Geoff; Arthur, Leonie; Downes, Toni; Gregson, Robyn; Power, Anne; Sawyer, Wayne; Singh, Michael; Thistleton-Martin, Judith; Steele, Frances – Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training, 2012
The first appendix in this report is the complete version of the literature review from the research project "Motivation and Engagement of Boys: Evidence-based Teaching Practices." This project was carried out by the University of Western Sydney on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST)…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Evidence, Student Motivation, Teaching Methods
Omachonu, Florence – Online Submission, 2012
A recent publication by the American Council on Education's, Office of Women in Higher Education (2010), shows that women and minorities promoted to senior level administrative positions have made gains. However, they remain underrepresented on most campuses. This paper argues that the slow emergence of women and minorities into senior level…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Females, Human Resources, Barriers
Keeney, Brianne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines strategic decision-making at the college level in relation to seven theoretical frames. Strategic decisions are those made by top executives, have wide-ranging influence throughout the organization, affect the long-term future of the organization, and are connected to the external environment. The seven decision-making frames…
Descriptors: Deans, Collegiality, Research Universities, Decision Making
Herdman, Paul – Policy Innovators in Education Network, 2012
Finland does a number of things to support their children well, but one of the big factors is that they have strong teachers. With the US drifting down the international depth chart of educational performance, what can reformers and teachers do to ensure they learn from the world's best and transform their teaching profession in a way that makes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Reputation, Teacher Effectiveness
Spears, Melanie V. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the perceptions of urban superintendents and the influence of executive coaching on their leadership practices, to identify which phases of the executive coaching process urban superintendents perceive as influential in their leadership practice, to determine which coaching strategies…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Schools, Coaching (Performance), Superintendents
Beabout, Brian R. – Online Submission, 2012
While scholarship on educational change has long accepted that disruptions to the status quo are an essential part of the change process, disruption has never been more central to planned change than it is in the current political context in the USA, where legislation has mandated school closure, reconstitution, and turnaround as required remedies…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Institutional Environment, Educational Practices, Performance Factors
Grimaldi, Emiliano – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
This essay contributes to the construction of a critically informed toolbox of diverse concepts for education policy analysis. Focusing on the context(s) of practice of the policy cycle, the article outlines an interpretative framework to grasp policy enactment across different localities, the influences bearing upon those enactments as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Policy Formation, Politics of Education
Shinn, Chris – Comparative Education Review, 2012
This essay explores the role of UNESCO, the World Bank, and the US Agency for International Development as key international actors shaping teacher development in Palestine. The argument presented is that international influence, particularly through donor-funded projects, combined with limited capacity within the Ministry of Education and local…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Donors
Mausethagen, Solvi; Granlund, Lise – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
This article addresses constructions and redefinitions of teacher professionalism by focusing on the discursive negotiations between the government and the teachers' union in Norway. Based on an examination of three white papers on teacher education from the past 15 years and policy documents put forth by the Union of Education Norway during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Recognition
Osterwalder, Fritz – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2012
The Republican education, its concepts, theories, and form of discourse belong to the shared European heritage of the pre-modern Age. The pedagogy of humanism and its effects on the early Modern Age are represented by Republicanism. Even if Republicanism found a political continuation in liberalism and democratism of the Modern Age, the same…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Environment, Political Attitudes, Politics of Education
Friedman, Ken – Visible Language, 2012
This article offers a large-scale view of how design fits in the world economy today, and the role of design education in preparing designers for their economic and professional role. The current context of design involves broad-based historical changes including a major redistribution of geopolitical and industrial power from the West to the…
Descriptors: Design, College Instruction, Futures (of Society), Economic Climate
Vlaardingerbroek, Barend; Shehab, Saadeddine S. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
The Lebanese government education system is based on the French, but private education historically has a high profile at both the school and tertiary levels where an American influence is profound. The mid-secondary "Brevet" examination continues to function as a filtering and channelling mechanism (in the latter instance, into the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Performance Factors
New, William S. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2012
This article examines Greek Romani identity from an exogenous viewpoint focused not on who Romani people think and feel they are, but on what others make of them, through official discourse, political action, and educational policy. This article combines a normative argument about social justice as recognition (Axel Honneth) with an empirical case…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
Isaac, John – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2012
The Arab Spring exposed the hidden secrets of Egyptian society to the global community. In spite of the insatiable media attention paid to the Mubarak regime and the toll it took on the entire country, Egypt's education system received little attention. For decades, Egypt's public schools have forced students to attend segregated classes, based on…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Religious Education
Walton, Marion; Pallitt, Nicola – Language and Education, 2012
Discussions of "game literacy" focus on the informal learning and literacies associated with games but seldom address the diversity in young people's gaming practices, and the highly differentiated technologies of digital gaming in use. We use available survey data to show how, in South Africa, income inequalities influence consumption…
Descriptors: Literacy, Informal Education, Educational Games, Young Adults