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Identifying Effective Drivers for Knowledge Exchange in the United Kingdom
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Upton, Stevie – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2012
This paper examines the drivers for knowledge exchange in British research-intensive universities, at a time when research impact is coming to be seen as an increasingly important outcome of research in all disciplines. It provides evidence of an over-emphasis of the economic benefits of knowledge exchange in the policy sphere and of a quite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Values, Economic Factors
Building an Educative Community for Early Childhood Development.
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Rudolph, Norma – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1996
Describes the policy changes in early childhood development in South Africa since 1994. Examines changes in Norther Province based on discussions by a group of teacher-practitioners and highlights the actions necessary to develop and implement the policies. Discusses the methodology of the change process, with particular reference to the role of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
History and Educational Policymaking.
Vinovskis, Maris A. – 1999
This book analyzes the lessons that history can teach those who wish to reform the American education system. It traces the evolving role of the federal government in educational research; explores the course of early-childhood education in the 19th and 20th centuries; examines the history of the Follow Through program, which existed from 1967 to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History
Evidence and Policy Research
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Schuller, Tom; Jochems, Wim; Moos, Lejf; van Zanten, Agnes – European Educational Research Journal, 2006
The EERJ roundtable took as its point of departure the experience of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) in carrying out policy research. CERI has conducted four reviews of national educational research and development (in New Zealand, England, Mexico and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Case Studies of Educational Innovation: I. At the Central Level.
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1973
This publication is aimed at assisting countries as they respond to the problem of organizing a continuing process of change in the schools. The seven case studies contributed to this volume illustrate ways of balancing organizational processes and the free initiative of individual schools and teachers, within the varying traditions of each…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
Research, Instruction, and Public Policy in the History Curriculum: A Symposium.
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Barton, Keith C.; And Others – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1996
Presents seven brief essays addressing recent research efforts and policy initiatives aimed at reforming the history curriculum. Notes that policy recommendations are rarely informed by research on either historical or pedagogical thinking. Authors include Keith C. Barton, Matthew T. Downey, Terrie L. Epstein, Linda S. Levstik, Peter Seixas,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change