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Valentina A. Bali; Devin Higgins – SAGE Open, 2023
Schools develop mission statements in part to communicate their purposes of schooling to internal and external audiences. The goal of this study is to employ text analytic techniques to analyze school mission statements. Focusing on Arizona and New Jersey's schools, we seek to understand: 1) what themes (topics) emerge from their mission…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Institutional Mission, Position Papers
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VanderDussen Toukan, Elena – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2018
In this article, I pose the question of what constructs of 'global citizenship education' are being mobilized by key international actors. I undertake a comparative analysis of three key United Nations (UN) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) documents that have emerged in the past 5 years to frame the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Global Education, Citizenship Education, International Organizations
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Bialik, Gadi; Merhav, Ortal – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2020
An in-depth understanding of field-level educational school goals and educational leadership action trajectories as embodied and represented in school vision "content" is of scholarly and practical importance. This is even more true in an era of expanding social pluralism and rising school autonomy owing to the leadership and policy…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Strategic Planning, Instructional Leadership, Institutional Autonomy
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Warchal, Judith R.; Ruiz, Ana I.; You, Di – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2017
This study focuses on the inclusion of the American Psychological Association's learning goals in the mission statements of undergraduate psychology programs across the US. We reviewed the mission statements available on websites for 1336 psychology programs listed in the Carnegie classification. Results of a content analysis revealed that of the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Psychology, Departments, Position Papers
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Aydin, Abdullah – International Education Studies, 2019
"Go to temples of science and ideas of Europe. Imitate the Tugendbund, 'the Union of Virtue', of which thousands of German youth are the members. Always keep the rule of 'Fit soul is in fit body' in mind" (Petrov, 2013, p. 72). This study aimed to show the similarities, in terms of expression, emphasis, and implication, in the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Institutional Mission, Content Analysis, Web Sites
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Zimmerman, Aaron Samuel – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2017
Novice teachers begin their careers with certain instructional ideals; however, in practice, novice teachers tend to enact classroom practices that only partially align with these ideals--a phenomenon referred to as the problem of enactment. This article explores this phenomenon by investigating the classroom thinking of three novice teachers.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Beginning Teachers, High Schools, Teacher Attitudes
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Ginsburg, Mark – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2017
This article analyzes three USAID education strategy documents (1998, 2005, and 2011) as well as USAID's requests for proposals for three projects to assess how teachers are represented. The main findings indicate that USAID education strategy documents a) treat teachers as human capital, a human resource input, rather than as human beings and b)…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Educational Attitudes, Teachers, Educational Strategies
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Tichnor-Wagner, Ariel; Socol, Allison Rose – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
As social and economic problems change, so do the goals of education reformers. This content analysis of presidential debates transcripts, state of the union addresses, and education budgets from 2000 to 2015 reveals the ways in which presidents and presidential candidates have framed education goals thus far in the twenty-first century. Using…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Political Candidates, Position Papers, Debate
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Schafft, Kai A.; Biddle, Catharine – American Journal of Education, 2013
Local control of schooling has been considered a defining feature of the American school system; however, in the past several decades of public schooling has also increasingly been subject to the influence of extralocal institutional mandates that encourage curricular and organizational standardization. We conducted a content analysis of 480…
Descriptors: School Districts, Public Education, Content Analysis, Position Papers
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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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Gibbons, Simon – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2013
Once again, the National Curriculum orders for English are being rewritten. The writers of the new curriculum have looked to the education systems of "high-performing jurisdictions" for inspiration. The result is a curriculum draft that offers a limited view of the subject and one which apparently fails to prioritise the needs of the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Educational Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Educational History
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Bartelds, Vladimir; Drayer, Lyndsay; Wolfensberger, Marca V. C. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2012
A mission statement that identifies the goals and aims of an honors program is a key step in program development. The National Collegiate Honors Council's Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors Program states unequivocally that a successful honors program "has a clear mandate from the institution's administration in the form of a…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Position Papers, Program Development, History
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Farisi, Mohammad Imam – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
The OER movement originated and integrated into ODE developments. Mega Universities (MUs) are among the most important of ODE providers worldwide should be to be the primary organizations for providing access to OER. So far, however, in-depth studies on OER developments in the Asian MUs were very limited. This study focuses on the developments,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web 2.0 Technologies, Sustainability, Educational Development
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Shannon, Patrick – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
This essay reviews six competing positions on U.S. school reform: a speech from Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan; Diane Ravitch's "The Death and Life of the Great American School System"; Frederick Hess's "The Same Thing Over and Over"; Charles Payne's "So Much Reform, So Little Change"; Anthony Byrk and others' "Organizing School for…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Sociology, Position Papers
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Law, Wing-Wah – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2014
This article uses curriculum-making frameworks to analyse and reconstruct the Chinese curriculum-making model and unpack the dynamics, complexity and constraints of China's curriculum reform since the early 1990s. It argues that curriculum reform is China's main human capital development strategy for coping with the challenges of the 21st century,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Position Papers
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