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Nordin, Andreas – Education Inquiry, 2014
Around the mid-2000s a crisis discourse emerged in educational policy-making in the EU and in Sweden. Using the EU and Sweden as empirical references, this article explores how this crisis discourse has been and is employed by politicians and NGOs. Discourse Institutionalism is used as an overall theoretical framework focusing on how the crisis…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Educational Change, Discourse Analysis
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Gonzales, Leslie D.; Rincones, Rodolfo – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2011
Across the institutional spectrum, universities are attempting to reposition themselves as more research dominant institutions, a pattern referred to as "mission creep." Such changes in university missions have several critical implications for faculty members and their work. In this qualitative study, we interviewed ten tenure-track…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Institutional Mission, Educational Change, College Faculty
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Perez, Leticia – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2007
As its title suggests, this is an account of "the Second E-Forum on Competency-based Approaches" and summarises the opinions and experiences expressed by the participants. The forum was based on a discussion paper prepared by the Canadian Observatory of Educational Reforms and a series of questions raised by Philippe Jonnaert were used to…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Competence, Educational Change, Teleconferencing