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May Amiel; Miri Yemini; Amit Rechavi – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
We investigate the sub-networks involved in education policy in Israel in recent years, using Mixed Methods Social Networks Analysis - drawn from combined analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. Our objective was to comprehensively explore the Israeli education policy network to deliver an understanding of its structure, actors, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Social Networks, Governance
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Knutsson, Beniamin; Lindberg, Jonas – Comparative Education Review, 2017
The point of departure of this article is an apparent antinomy. On the one hand, there is the powerful argument in political theory on the emergence and consolidation of a post-political condition. On the other hand, research in international and comparative education demonstrates how conflicts and power asymmetries continue to characterize…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Educational Policy, Power Structure
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Zahavi, Hila – European Journal of Higher Education, 2019
The objective of this article is to examine the Israeli perceptions towards the Bologna Process as well as outline its reactions to it. Specifically, the article investigates the landscape of interests among Israeli policy-makers (from both political and institutional levels) in relation to the European higher education reforms. Through interviews…
Descriptors: International Relations, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy
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Crack, Angela M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Britain has funded English language teaching (ELT) initiatives in developing countries for decades, despite changes in government and a series of substantial overhauls in the administration of development aid. This article reveals the relevance of ideational factors in explaining how ELT remained a key part of Britain's aid policy during a period…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Developing Nations
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Gallacher, Jim; Raffe, David – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
Many researchers studying the impact of parliamentary devolution conclude that education policies in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are diverging. They attribute this to five factors: the redistribution of formal powers associated with devolution; differences in values, ideologies and policy discourses across the four territories;…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Evidence, Foreign Countries
Vitullo-Martin, Thomas W.; Vitullo-Martin, Julia A. – 1973
Despite the recent resurgence of academic interest in nonpublic schools, we continue to be relatively ignorant of the political and social composition of these schools. This study of the Chicago and Los Angeles Catholic school systems sought to redress this ignorance. The study first gathered and analyzed school data from central (diocesan)…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Community Support, Parent Attitudes, Policy Formation
Kearney, C. Philip – 1980
Five approaches, designed by the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), help educational administrators gain access to the educational policy-making process. They include a year-long fellowship program, the Educational Policy Fellowship Program, for midcareer administrators to learn about policy-making at the federal, state, and local levels;…
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Inservice Education, Legislation
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Ammon, Ulrich – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1997
Language-spread policy (LSP) is policy promulgated by groups seeking to spread their languages to speakers or communicative domains. LSP can be internal or external, overt or disguised, and related in different ways to national policy. Intent may be to increase native-language advantage in international communication, disseminate ideology, create…
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Language Planning, Language Research, Language Role
Wickert, Rosie – Open Letter, 1991
It is suggested that the search to make sense of dominant political ideologies and of their impact on language and literacy curriculum and teaching practice must be deliberately undertaken by teachers and activists if education is to maintain any control over the literacy agenda. (Contains 27 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Policy
Crain, Robert L. – 1966
A study determined the extent of influence members of a city's business elite have on civil rights policy of the city's school system. The National Opinion Research Center interviewed the school superintendent, school board members, civil rights leaders, other political leaders, and members of the business elite in eight large cities. The study…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Civil Rights, Community Leaders, Metropolitan Areas
Townsend, Richard G. – 1973
A conflict-cooperation-conflict model is offered of the genesis, functioning, and aftermath of an inter-governmental and inter-professional program in a major city. Outputs prior to this linkage are perceived as generating major conflicts which eventually were settled by decisions to parcel out certain school building responsibilities among city…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Conflict
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Katznelson, Ira – Society, 1977
Notes and predicts persistence in the nature of the links between social scientists and the polity, and speculates that we may also be on the threshold of basic alterations in, or at least challenges to, these traditional arrangements. This prognosis is essentially hopeful for those of us who are social scientists and socialists. At issue is how…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Federal Government, Government Role, Policy Formation
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Willie, Charles V. – Society, 1977
Argues that as important as what the Carter administration will do is what the Carter victory has already done: it decisively ended the Nixon era in American society. The Carter administration will attempt to synthesize the striving for excellence of the Nixon era and the push for participation of the King era. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Federal Government, Government Role, Policy Formation
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Bartlett, Jane C.; Wigtil, James V. – School Counselor, 1979
Working through professional organizations and individually, school counselors can set legislative priorities and establish themselves as social and political agents for change. Counselor involvement in politics and legislative action at local, state, and federal level is timely and relevant. Involvement is critical in areas of role funding and…
Descriptors: Activism, Counselors, Credentials, Financial Support
Chan, Joseph Man; Lee, Chin-Chuan – 1985
Reporters in Hong Kong who were working for 21 Chinese-language newspapers were mailed questionnaires to elicit information on the following: how news organizations in a highly politicized environment exercise control on recruitment, policy direction with regard to the coverage of conflicting issues, and the resolution of possible conflicts…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Foreign Countries, Journalism, Media Research
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