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Barberis, Eduardo; Buchowicz, Izabela – European Education, 2015
This article explores the role of school staff in the accessibility of education with a focus on professional discretion and its relation with institutions and contexts. Drawing on the street-level bureaucracy approach it looks into different types of discretionary practices and asks how their legitimacy influences their success. The analysis is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Staff Role, Decision Making, Admission (School)
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Morciano, Daniele; Scardigno, Anna Fausta; Manuti, Amelia; Pastore, Serafina – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2014
In this paper an evaluation study of a public programme financing a regional network of 157 youth centres in the South of Italy is presented. A theory-based evaluation model was adopted to explore the causal links between different types of participation experience. Evaluation questions focused on three main issues are: the perception of…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Youth Agencies, Participation, Program Evaluation
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers