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Original Intentions and Unintended Consequences: The 'Contentious' Role of Assessment in the Development of Leaving Certificate Physical Education in Ireland
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Scanlon, Dylan; MacPhail, Ann; Calderón, Antonio – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2019
Ireland is set to introduce an examinable physical education curriculum (Leaving Certificate Physical Education (LCPE)) in the final two years of post-primary school. A Physical Education Development Group (PEDG) were tasked with the responsibility of constructing the LCPE specification. This paper explores the LCPE curriculum development process…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Curriculum Development, Physical Education Teachers
The Politics of Gamification: Education, Neoliberalism and the Knowledge Economy
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Tulloch, Rowan; Randell-Moon, Holly Eva Katherine – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2018
"Gamification", a strategy whereby video game logics are applied to real world tasks, is rapidly gaining traction in education discourses, policies, and practices. Gamification advocates are frequently and prominently declaring the practice "the future of education" or education for the 21st century (Deardorff 2015; Frith 2017;…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Video Games, Politics of Education, Neoliberalism
Loaded Dice: Games Playing and the Gendered Barriers of the Academy
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Ashencaen Crabtree, Sara; Shiel, Chris – Gender and Education, 2018
This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of women academics in the UK, participating in a small-scale qualitative study exploring career progression and encountered institutional obstacles. The accounts are considered in terms of both disadvantageous institutional strategies and interpersonal ones governing day-to-day working…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Career Development
The Relationship between Teachers' and Principals' Decision-Making Power: Is It a Win-Win Situation or a Zero-Sum Game?
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Shen, Jianping; Xia, Jiangang – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2012
Is the power relationship between public school teachers and principals a win-win situation or a zero-sum game? By applying hierarchical linear modeling to the 1999-2000 nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey data, we found that both the win-win and zero-sum-game theories had empirical evidence. The decision-making areas…
Descriptors: Evidence, Game Theory, Public School Teachers, Educational Change
Bologna Network: A New Sociopolitical Area in Higher Education
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Croche, Sarah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2009
The project of the Bologna process to create a "European Higher Education Area" (EHEA) has established the necessary conditions for the emergence of a new sociopolitical space of higher education in Europe. This space has become a cooperation/competition area that changes the European and national balance of power: the relations the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Game Theory, Competition, Foreign Countries
Understanding the Nature of Accountability Failure in a Technology-Filled, Laissez-Faire Classroom: Disaffected Students and Teachers Who Give In
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Elstad, Eyvind – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2006
This paper discusses how the curriculum is shaped by the situational logic of a technology-filled classroom, and how this logic is under the influence of ideas about student--teacher interactions and "do-it-yourself learning." It analyses case material from a school using game theory. Free access in the classroom to the Internet, games,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Independent Study, Computer Uses in Education, Teacher Student Relationship