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Lisa Frances; Frances Quinn; Sue Elliott; Jo Bird – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
In this article, we explore inconsistencies in the implementation of outdoor learning across Australian early years' education. The benefits of outdoor learning justify regular employment of this pedagogical approach in both early childhood education and primary school settings. Early childhood education services provide daily outdoor learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Program Implementation, Elementary Education
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Kearney, Sean – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
In Australia, the recognition of the importance of induction for beginning teachers has been present for over three decades. In 2016, the first set of guidelines was introduced to implement beginning teacher induction: "Graduate to proficient: Australian Guidelines for teacher induction into the profession." However, reports of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Guidelines
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Keary, Anne; Filipi, Anna; Walsh, Lucas – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2021
This paper presents a case-study exploration of how federal and state government policy and Education Acts are interpreted and enacted at school level through the implementation of the International Student Program in Victoria, Australia. Understanding policy and its enactment as multi-layered and often "messy" to frame through our…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Student Exchange Programs, State Policy, Program Implementation
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Ian Hardy; Stuart Woodcock – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
This article draws upon a critical policy analysis approach to examine the state of inclusive education policy in Global North settings over the past decade. Building on an earlier paper on this topic ten years ago, this updated article seeks to explore whether and how inclusion and inclusive education have been understood in varied international,…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Policy, School Policy, Time Perspective
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Thomas Roche; Erica Wilson; Elizabeth Goode – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2024
Universities across the globe are considering how to effect meaningful change in their higher education (HE) delivery in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and shifting student learning preferences. This paper reports on a descriptive case- study of whole-of-institution curriculum reform at one regional Australian university, where more traditional…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Julianne Lynch; Glenn Auld; Joanne O'Mara; Anne Cloonan – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Focusing on teachers' practices amid a national curriculum 'implementation' project for schools identified as having high enrolments of students experiencing disadvantage, this paper uses narrative methods to illustrate what we refer to as teachers' everyday work-for-change. Teacher interview data was generated via a longitudinal multi-site case…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Disadvantaged
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Bartholomaeus, Clare; Riggs, Damien W. – Teachers College Record, 2022
This commentary reflects on what it means to have a mandatory policy for supporting trans students in education settings, drawing on the South Australian context. The authors argue that for policy to be productive, it needs to move beyond a document to being implemented in practice.
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Federal Government
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Stylianou, Michalis; Hogan, Anna; Enright, Eimear – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
Youth sport policies are increasingly driven by health concerns and social issues, and focus on broad participation outcomes. Given the significant financial investment in, and critique of, such policies internationally, this study aimed to examine the implementation of Sporting Schools (SS), a $100 million programme intended to increase…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Athletics, Physical Education
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Harris, Alma; Jones, Michelle – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2018
This article explores the significance of context within the process of contemporary education reform and policy-making. It draws upon evidence from a comparative study of educational change and transformation in seven education systems: Australia, England, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, and Singapore. The article focuses on school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Context Effect, Educational Change
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Rino Wiseman Adhikary – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Taking the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4 - quality and equity in education and lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030) as a global education policy, this article investigates the accompanying consensus politics. It shows how political consensus among 193 UNESCO member states over the national implementation of SDG4…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Sustainable Development, Objectives, International Organizations
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
In light of the growing negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on national labour markets and people's lives and livelihoods, the role of career guidance has become ever more important to individuals, families, communities, the workforce, employers and society. This report is based on a flash joint international survey, designed to provide a…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Policy
Golden, Gillian – OECD Publishing, 2020
This paper aims to survey the current landscape of education policy evaluation across OECD countries and economies by examining recent trends and contextual factors that can promote more robust education policy evaluation, as well as identifying key challenges. It takes a view of policy evaluation as an activity that takes place throughout the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Evaluation, Educational Trends, Educational Change
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Georgia Sexton; Cherylee Brown; Annette Joosten; Brent Hayward – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Policies exist to regulate the use of restraint and seclusion so that they are only implemented when necessary and following appropriate standards and procedures. These policies often focus on students with disability. This qualitative study explored school leaders' understanding, use and perspectives of the Restraint and Seclusion Policy mandated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Policy, Students with Disabilities, Discipline
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Nakar, Sonal; Bagnall, Richard G.; Hodge, Steven – Australian Educational Researcher, 2018
This paper reviews the nature and implementation of the Australian VET FEE-HELP (VFH) policy initiative: a scheme introduced in 2008 to extend income-contingent loans to the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia. We argue that the implementation of the scheme has been seriously flawed, leading to a range of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education Teachers, Reflection, Ethics
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McShane, Ian – Educational Research, 2016
Background: Early childhood education and care has been an area of significant policy attention, public investment and private market activity in Australia over the past three decades. Australian educationists and policy-makers have looked to international examples for evidence, policy design and institutional models. However, this area is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy
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