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Wolthuis, Fenna; Hubers, Mireille Desirée; van Veen, Klaas; de Vries, Siebrich – Research Papers in Education, 2022
This study examines which school factors schools report influence their (dis)continuation of lesson study, a professional development initiative, and how after a four-year, cross-school lesson study project ends. To examine this, the framework on three types of school factors (features of employment, malleable school processes and fixed school…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Program Termination, Organizational Culture
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Ku, Hsiao-Yuh – History of Education, 2018
Shena Simon (1883-1972), a leading English socialist and educationist, actively called for the reform of secondary education in the 1930s and 1940s in order to bring the ideal of 'equality of opportunity' into the English educational system. This paper explores the continuity and changes in Simon's proposed reforms in relation to her ideals of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Social Justice, Social Change
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Johnston, James; Reeves, Alan; Talbot, Steven – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
The decline in the number of UK universities offering undergraduate degree programmes in subjects such as sciences, mathematics, modern languages and humanities has been well documented and is now of real concern. It appears that economics may be going through a decline in new (post-1992) UK universities with many economics programmes having been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Economics Education, Undergraduate Study
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Kershaw, Paul; Forer, Barry; Goelman, Hillel – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2005
Research shows that stability is one component of quality child care. We investigate the understudied phenomenon of the stability of child-care facilities over time, focusing on the province of British Columbia, Canada. Although net figures show growth in the number of providers between 1997 and 2001, they obfuscate a dramatic level of closure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Caregivers, Child Care