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Seven Voices, Seven Developers, Seven One Things That Guide Our Practice
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Kalu, Frances; Dyjur, Patti; Berenson, Carol; Grant, Kimberley A.; Jeffs, Cheryl; Kenny, Natasha; Mueller, Robin – To Improve the Academy, 2018
Educational development philosophy statements provide a framework to communicate the values and beliefs that guide the practices and approaches of individual educational developers across various career stages. This paper presents narratives to illustrate how seven educational developers conceptualize the "one thing" that guides our work…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Philosophy, Beliefs, Values
Public Service Values in NASPAA Programs: Identification, Integration, and Activation
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Svara, James H.; Baizhanov, Sanzhar – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2019
NASPAA expects accredited public affairs programs to stress public service values in their educational program. This article examines the values that are included the mission statements of 125 public affairs programs. There is wide dispersion in the number and content of the values identified in these mission statements. Content analysis of the…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Public Policy, Public Service, Values
Achieving an Institution's Values, Vision, and Mission
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Calder, William B. – College Quarterly, 2014
The measures of institutional success are more meaningful through the further realization of the institution's vision and mission and how the institution is supporting its declared values through various initiatives and behaviours. Institutions and their leaders rely on these statements as foundational pillars by which to launch new programs,…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Mission, Organizational Objectives, Organizational Theories
Gifted Education in the Netherlands
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De Boer, Greet C.; Minnaert, Alexander E. M. G.; Kamphof, Gert – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2013
In the summer of 2011, the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science presented a letter to the Cabinet, containing the policy objectives for the education of talented, gifted, and highly gifted students. In action plans for primary, secondary, and higher education, in addition to the development of teacher skills, specific measures were…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Position Papers
Upholding Public Trust: An Examination of Teacher Professionalism and the Use of Teachers' Standards in England
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Goepel, Janet – Teacher Development, 2012
This paper considers the nature of teacher professionalism in England today, tracing how it has changed and developed according to the impact of government policy and the introduction of standards for teachers. It examines the recently published Teachers' Standards with their emphasis on classroom practice together with the requirement for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, National Standards
Locating Leadership: The Blind Spot in Alberta's Technology Policy Discourse
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Brooks, Charmaine – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2011
Over the last 20 years, technology and education policy discourse in Alberta, Canada has been philosophically polarized and dominated by value-neutral ways of thinking about technology (Brooks, 2011). While technology policy implementation has significant ramifications for schools and systems, for much of this time, system leaders, specifically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Superintendents, Leadership