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Meg Milligan; Kanessa Doss; Bhekuyise Zungu – Perspectives in Education, 2024
School violence is a global concern (UNESCO, 2022) with prolific consequences due to its lifelong psychological impact. Violence will continue to afflict human populations due to its underlying psychology, but this can be tempered by culture and other environmental factors. Violence is part of human nature and has an evolutionary basis rooted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Violence, Delinquency Prevention, Social Psychology
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Andrew Gebert – Thresholds in Education, 2023
The geographic studies of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944) offered an understanding of human activities on Earth's surface that differed from the geographic theories and practices of his Euro-American predecessors and Japanese contemporaries. With his rejection of geographic determinism and its imperialist/colonial orientation he sought to…
Descriptors: Competition, Intergroup Relations, Social Integration, Human Geography
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Sajjanhar, Atul; Lim, Kenneth Y. T.; Ren, Yuechao – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Through innovative use of technology, we propose a pedagogical framework to improve the achievement of the threshold learning outcomes defined for Australian curriculum in environmental science. The proposed framework is grounded in the theory of disciplinary intuitions. It aims to improve understanding of the local environment through assessment…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Climate
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Thompson, Greg – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This paper maps Hardt and Negri's use of Deleuze (and Guattari's) philosophical commitment to the control society as a temporal phenomena in the context of education. Education is important because it is pushed and pulled by those vectors that Hardt and Negri see as central tensions in late capitalism: localism vs globalisation, discipline vs…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Social Systems, Global Approach, Local Issues
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Kosmützky, Anna – European Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Higher education is undergoing a process of globalization and new realities of a globalized higher education world are emerging. Globalization also has a profound impact on higher education research. Global and transnational topics are theoretically and empirically elaborated and seem on the rise, whereas the international comparative outlook…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Criticism, Global Approach
Moss, G.; Bradbury, A.; Braun, A.; Duncan, S.; Levy, R. – Institute of Education - London, 2021
The COVID pandemic has led to a prolonged period of educational disruption with few precedents from the recent past to guide recovery. The Institute of Education's project, "Learning Through Disruption," set out to explore the knowledge schools have acquired from working with children and families during the crisis. The authors found…
Descriptors: School Districts, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Methods
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Ahmad, Athman Kyaruzi; Gjøtterud, Sigrid; Krogh, Erling – Educational Action Research, 2016
In this article we present and discuss experiences developed through a dialogue conference which we organised as part of a three-year participatory action research project related to primary education and agricultural education in Tanzania. We explore how dialogue conference as a research method can fill a gap between traditional ways of mutual…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Educational Change, Agricultural Education, Problem Solving
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Unterrainer, Tom – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2014
This article describes how one local teachers' union branch has developed an active and imaginative campaign as it has challenged both national education policy and also the very specific attacks on schools in the community. By connecting local and national issues, and by linking struggles on pay and pensions to wider questions of policy, the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Activism, Consciousness Raising, Advocacy
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Schumacher, Gary; Hammonds, Craig – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2015
This case is written for graduate students in a superintendency seminar course, a school-community relations course, or a school leadership course, such as a school politics course. It presents a highly charged school referendum issue in a school district that is comprised of two distinctly different communities. An initial referendum to construct…
Descriptors: School Districts, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Voting, Educational Change
Blumenreich, Megan; Jaffe-Walter, Reva – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Montclair Cares About Schools (MCAS) is a citizen-activist group in Montclair, New Jersey, that used Facebook, emails, and online petitions to inform and organize citizens on local educational policy issues. Emerging in response to a new superintendent's plans to reshape Montclair schools with new teacher evaluations, administrative hires, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Mass Media Role, Educational Policy, Local Issues
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Yarker, Patrick – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2014
"Trojan Horse" has become journalistic shorthand for an apparent attempt by a small group in East Birmingham to secure control of local non-faith schools and impose policies and practices in keeping with the very conservative (Salafist and Wahhabi) version of Islam which they hold. In this article, Pat Yarker gives an account of two…
Descriptors: Islam, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Local Government
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Ainscow, Mel – Journal of Educational Change, 2012
This paper describes and analyses the work of a large scale improvement project in England in order to find more effective ways of fostering equity within education systems. The project involved an approach based on an analysis of local context, and used processes of networking and collaboration in order to make better use of available expertise.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Educational Environment
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Allison, Bradford; Schumacher, Gary – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2011
This case presents a situation in which a reformist superintendent attempts to achieve a systemwide, yet simple change in the school time schedule to incorporate well-established neurocognitive sleep research to enhance student learning. The public discussion of the reform proposal brought forth a very negative, single issue group who took over…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Sleep, Scientific Research, Brain
Stronach, Ian – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book offers a critical and deconstructive account of global discourses on education, arguing that these overblown "hypernarratives" are neither economically, technically nor philosophically defensible. Nor even sane. Their "mythic economic instrumentalism" mimic rather than meet the economic needs of global capitalism in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Discourse Analysis, Economics
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Schulte, Don P.; Hong, Barbara S. S. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2011
This case study uses real events and hypothetical elements associated with the struggle for school finance equity in Texas. It involves a superintendent faced with difficult choices brought about by a convergence of events and issues, namely, by a national and state economic crisis, the demographic realities of his district, a historically…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Educational Equity (Finance), School Districts, Local Issues
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