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Mortimore, Peter – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2023
This article proposes reform of the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). It considers the purpose of inspection in English schools and describes the previous system of inspection based on Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools (HMI). The question of how effective Ofsted is -- in comparison to similar countries -- is then addressed. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inspection, Schools, Standards
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Ana Clara Bortoleto Nery; Tony Honorato – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2025
At a time when extremist movements are gaining proportions on the world stage, it is relevant to reanalyse experiences that intended to establish democracy as a principle in school education. The School Republic was one of them, which was proposed by the Sampaio Dória Reform, in 1920, taking the New School as its context; the School Republic aimed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Democracy, Democratic Values
Lee, Huan Yik; Hamid, M. Obaidul; Hardy, Ian – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
Although most international organisations are, in principle, multilingual, the ten-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has adopted a radical approach by operating monolingually, ostensibly for convenience and pragmatism. In order to provide an evaluation of the ASEAN policy context, this paper compares and contrasts ASEAN to two…
Descriptors: Language Planning, International Organizations, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
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Romanowski, Michael H.; Du, Xiangyun – Prospects, 2022
Nations transfer educational reform models for the systematic improvement of education. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Gulf Cooperation Council states, which have implemented primarily Western decentralized reform models to overhaul their educational systems. This article reports non-empirical research, written as a conceptual analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Active Learning, Student Projects
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Zelazo, Philip David; Carlson, Stephanie M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
Executive function (EF) skills are a set of attention-regulation skills involved in intentional, goal-directed behavior that include (but are not limited to) the cool EF skills of working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control, and also the hot EF skill of intentional reevaluation. These skills are inevitably expressed in goal- and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Inhibition
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Weber, Nadya – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2017
This paper looks at the changing nature of international development nongovernmental organizations' development education programming in England and Canada. A documentary analysis of the changes in Save the Children Canada and Save the Children UK's development education materials illuminates the shift in international development agencies'…
Descriptors: Nongovernmental Organizations, International Organizations, Foreign Countries, Global Education
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Sleegers, Peter – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: In the author's reflection on the special issue, the author will start with a brief discussion of the different theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions of the articles. In addition, the author will argue that the challenge for research on school-non-governmental organization (NGO) interactions is to move beyond the use of…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Nongovernmental Organizations, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Kearney, Arthur; Harrington, Denis; Kelliher, Felicity – Industry and Higher Education, 2019
It is argued that strategizing provides firms with deep and sustainable sources of competitive advantage. Despite an emerging literature base on the strategic management of the micro firm, there is limited research into strategizing in context. This article investigates the nature of strategizing in the micro firm. A critical review of the…
Descriptors: Models, Strategic Planning, Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses
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Jones, Samuel David; Brandt, Silke – Cognitive Science, 2020
High phonological neighborhood density has been associated with both advantages and disadvantages in early word learning. High density may support the formation and fine-tuning of new word sound memories--a process termed lexical configuration (e.g., Storkel, 2004). However, new high-density words are also more likely to be misunderstood as…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers, Phonology
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Clarke, Linda; McFlynn, Paul – Education Sciences, 2019
The profession that creates all other professions has been subject to much debate in recent years. Largely invisible at times, teacher educators have recently been visible mainly in the negative headlines which have surrounded attempts to disrupt this important, but often unsung, profession in order to introduce neoliberal reforms. This paper uses…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Professionalism, Commercialization, Administrative Organization
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Dolhare, Maria Itati; Rojas-Lizana, Sol – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2018
This article discusses the concept of "Vivir Bien" (Living Well) (VB) and its role as a decolonising project in connection with the "Political Constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia" (2009) (BC) and subordinated legislation. This subordinated legislation was enacted to implement in a more specific manner the general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Models, Indigenous Knowledge
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Poulin, Jeff M. – Arts Education Policy Review, 2022
As the COVID-19 crisis exposed inequities in civic, funding, and programmatic policies -- often grounded in systemic oppression and White Supremacy -- community based, youth-focused organizations, such as Creative Youth Development (CYD) programs, were catapulted into unplanned changes in order to survive. In this tumultuous environment,…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Crisis Management, Whites, COVID-19
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Meng, Weiqing; Huang, Wei – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
Embedding general education in the Chinese university education system is a considerably complex systemic project, and a lack of institutional arrangements beneficial to general education has always been a key barrier in implementation. Currently, the main institutional restricting factors for university general education include substantial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, General Education, Universities, Institutional Characteristics
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Doyle, Tom; Brady, Malcolm – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2018
For the most part, the organisational forms that are currently being adopted by higher education institutions are grounded in the traditional corporate models of organisation that take a rational approach to organisational change management. Underlying this account is an assumption of organisational autonomy and the capacity of designated leaders…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Higher Education, Change Strategies, Models
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Wang, Hui – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
Improving teachers' online class application ability is a critical issue that needs to be addressed in the Sichuan Cloud Education promotion process. The four-stage training model of Sichuan Cloud Education constructs a reproducible and easy-to-promote online class teacher's application ability model. It provides practical solutions to poor…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Software, Faculty Development, Technological Literacy
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