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Sands, Sara R. – Educational Policy, 2023
The research on education philanthropy typically characterizes foundations as practicing either "traditional" or "strategic" philanthropy. These labels are used to indicate divergent ways of thinking about the impact of grants and approaches to grantmaking between the two models. Drawing on a theoretical framework informed by…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Systems Approach, Grants, Sociology
Sheridan Dudley – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
Based on an in-depth case study, this book reveals how politicians, as policy makers, conceptualise, develop and initiate large-scale education system reform and why it matters for whole system school improvement. Governments all over the world are spending increasing time, money and effort on improving school systems but the evidence suggests…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Public Officials, Case Studies, Policy Formation
Robert, Sarah A.; Yu, Min; Lewis, Danielle V. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2021
The article argues for intersectionality as analytical concept for transnational education policy analyses of teachers' work. We first lay out the conceptual and methodological groundwork, and then revisit two case studies of teachers' work to deepen understanding of the conceptual framework for intersectional transnational education policy…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Global Approach, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Akiva, Thomas, Ed.; Robinson, Kimberly H., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2022
"It Takes an Ecosystem" explores the idea and potential of the Allied Youth Fields--an aspirational term that suggests increased connection across the multiple systems in which adults engage with young people. Recent research and initiatives make a strong case for what developmentalists have argued for decades: A young person's learning…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Adults, Youth, Interpersonal Relationship
Xue, Shan; Bush, Tony; Ng, Ashley Y. M. – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2020
In China, accreditation training programme has been a compulsory programme for all the aspiring and new principals, which is also a part of National Training Plan. Under such hierarchical system, leadership preparation in China is supported, implemented, evaluated, and also, constrained by different levels of administrative organisations and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Principals, Administrator Education, Educational Policy
Eacott, Scott – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: Education is a key institution of modern society, long recognized for its central role in the reproduction of inequities and with the potential to challenge them. Schools behave as their systems are designed. Achieving equity and excellence is not possible through attempts to fix "the school" or educators. Principles of systemic…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Quality, Instructional Design, Outcomes of Education
Hanson, Janet; Niqab, Muhammad; Bangert, Arthur – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2021
Current trends in disruptive technologies and global migration are changing the landscape of education. Stakeholders around the world are meeting to discuss the need to transform schools from teaching organizations to learning organizations. Policy decisions require empirically tested instrumentation that provides reliable data as feedback from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Technology Integration
Dhukaram, Anandhi Vivekanandan; Sgouropoulou, Cleo; Feldman, Gerald; Amini, Ardavan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the complexities involved in higher education provision and how systems thinking and socio-technical systems (STS) thinking approach can be used to understand the education ecosystem. Systems thinking perspective is provided using two case studies: the development of European Learner Mobility (EuroLM)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Systems Approach, Delivery Systems
Gurr, David; Longmuir, Fiona; Reed, Christopher – Journal of Educational Administration, 2021
Purpose: Through discussion of research about the leadership of two schools, this paper explores the complexity of school leadership and how various contextual elements interact with the work of principals in schools that are attempting to create inclusive, rich, worthwhile and unique schools. A systems thinking leadership and context model is…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Instructional Leadership, School Administration, Principals
Evans, Stephen – Learning and Work Institute, 2021
The Skills for Jobs White Paper and funding and accountability consultation set out the Government's plans to introduce a greater focus on the outcomes of learning, including a new Skills Measure that looks at the employment and other outcomes that learners achieve. Will this give colleges and providers greater freedom to deliver for learners, or…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Accountability, Outcomes of Education, Employment
Paletta, Angelo; Bonoli, Alessandra – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: Starting from the experience of the University of Bologna, this paper provides an innovative framework to analyse how universities are rethinking courses and curricula, teaching, research programmes, campus operation and partnership to address the Agenda 2030. Design/methodology/approach: The paper proposes a methodological approach to…
Descriptors: Governance, Strategic Planning, Student Mobility, International Cooperation
Catherine, Ochenje – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
There have been current controversial discussions concerning the performance of private primary schools versus public primary schools in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination (K.C.P.E.). Lately, the private primary schools appear to be performing better than public primary schools. For example; in the 2003 K.C.P.E. results, more than 31% of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Sampling, Private Schools
Gazeley, Louise; Marrable, Tish; Brown, Chris; Boddy, Janet – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2015
There is an increasing emphasis internationally on better understanding the links between inequalities and processes within school systems. In England there has been a particular focus on rates of school exclusion because the national data has consistently highlighted troubling patterns of over-representation. This paper argues that a move away…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Disproportionate Representation, Inclusion
Semali, Ladislaus M.; Mehta, Khanjan – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Students in rural and urban areas in Tanzania, and elsewhere in Africa, continue to have limited or lack access to culturally and employment-relevant science education. The current case study, a 2007-2009 examination of barriers to the reform movement of science education in Tanzania, uses data from interviews, classroom observations, document…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Togo, Muchaiteyi; Lotz-Sisitka, Heila – Environmental Education Research, 2013
This paper explores the use of systems theory to inform the mainstreaming of sustainability in a university's functions as it responds to sustainable development challenges in its local context. Offering a case study of Rhodes University, the paper shows how the use of systems models and concepts, underpinned by a critical realist ontology and an…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Sustainable Development