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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
National Science Foundation, 2018
NSF INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) is a comprehensive national initiative designed to enhance U.S. leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Equal Education, Inclusion, Diversity
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Daniele, Luisa – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2017
The paper examines critically the dimension of empowerment in the European discourse, starting from some operational definitions used in official documents. The author analyses the shift in the European documents from 2000 to recent years, from a lifelong learning vision to an adult education approach, basically labour market-oriented, thus…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Discourse Analysis, Position Papers, Definitions
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Kivistö, Jussi; Pekkola, Elias; Siekkinen, Taru – European Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Doctoral education as a policy field is an important link between educational, research and innovation policies. It is gaining importance in European and national policy discussions. Doctoral education policies are increasingly formulated at the supranational level, even though the European Commission does not possess formal competence in terms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Educational Development, Educational Policy
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Awada, Ghada; Diab, Hassan – Cogent Education, 2016
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of Lebanon's Education Reform Strategy and Action Plan (LERSAP) set in 2011 as a form of the educational reform the curriculum underwent through focusing on promoting and employing the information communication technology (ICT) tools. The LERSAP was launched to equip teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Educational Planning, Curriculum Development
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Stankovska, Gordana; Angelkoska, Slagana; Grncaroska, Svetlana Pandiloska – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
In education, inclusion is a process of mutual respect for differences of every student and his/her needs, in which the focus is placed on the student. The education system, on the other hand, should deal with the challenges that all students face, including the special educational needs students. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Case Studies
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Marsh, Julie A. – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: Scholars widely acknowledge that politics help explain why policies are adopted and how they play out in states, districts, and schools. To date, political analyses of education reform tend to isolate a particular policy and examine the politics of its adoption or implementation, but pay less attention to the effects of the politics of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Politics of Education, School Districts
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Freathy, R. J. K.; Parker, S. G. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2015
This article provides an historical case study of an abortive attempt to revise policy and legislation relating to Religious Education (RE) in English schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing upon published sources, including parliamentary debates, as well as previously unutilised national archival sources from the Department of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Curriculum Development, Politics of Education
Mehta, Jal – American Educator, 2015
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released its now famous report, "A Nation at Risk," which warned of "a rising tide of mediocrity" in American schooling. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education but largely written by a group of prominent academics, "A Nation at Risk" invoked a crisis…
Descriptors: Risk, Research Reports, Position Papers, Content Analysis
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Ito, Hiroshi – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2013
This paper attempts to address reasons that Literacy for All and thus Education for All (EFA) may be such difficult goals to achieve and explores strategies to address them by examining the action plans submitted by 28 countries to UNESCO in preparation for the High-Level International Round Table on Literacy that took place as a closing event for…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Content Analysis, Equal Education, International Organizations
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Mehta, Jal – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
American educational policy was rapidly transformed between 1980 and 2001. Accountability was introduced into a sphere that had long been loosely coupled, both major political parties reevaluated longstanding positions, and significant institutional control over the schooling shifted to the federal government for the first time in the nation's…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Politics of Education, Educational Development
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Stoten, David William – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
The sixth-form college sector is often marginalised in policy and academic discourse, where the much larger school and further education sectors dominate. This paper sets out to describe the sector's key features, assess its position within the wider education system and consider its future in an increasingly competitive education market. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Secondary Schools, Secondary Education, Educational Development
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Semela, Tesfaye – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2014
The purpose of this article is to provide a more comprehensive picture of teacher preparation in Ethiopia on top of a closer scrutiny of current teacher education reforms. In particular, it presents teacher education within the context of policy implementation over the last six decades by highlighting key reforms and how these reforms impacted the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Wenbin, Hu – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
This article reviews the education reform and development footprints in China by analyzing four key education policy documents in the past three decades. The conclusion is that the reform and development of China's educational establishment have provided excellent support for the operations of China's political and economic systems. The reality is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy
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Filippakou, Ourania; Salter, Brian; Tapper, Ted – Tertiary Education and Management, 2012
With the passage of the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act the British system of higher education formally moved from a binary to a unitary structure. However, ever since successive governments have argued for a diversified model of higher education within which institutions should pursue contrasting goals. This article offers an interpretation…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries
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