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Direct linkElla Daniel; Sharon Arieli; Liat Akerman – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
School vision statements articulate an aspired future state for the school, highlighting its ideals, purpose, and unique aspects to direct behavior and promote motivation and commitment among stakeholders. This paper investigates vision statements of schools as artifacts expressing the values emphasized by schools, drawing on organizational…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Institutional Mission, Position Papers, Values
Saudelli, Mary Gene; Niemczyk, Ewelina K. – Perspectives in Education, 2022
Universities can play a key role in contributing to a sustainable future for our planet and its inhabitants. In times of constant changes, there is a growing urgency to reflect on the vision of universities as well as their respective practices and projects that can promote the creation of sustainable societies. As is evident in scholarly…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Universities, Foreign Countries, Social Problems
Misco, Thomas; McIntyre, George; Molina, Estevan; Bennett-Kinne, Andrea; Hughes, Michael – Teacher Educator, 2023
This study analyzed all available teacher preparation program mission statements in the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (n = 475) using exploratory sequential mixed methods, intersecting theory with qualitative and quantitative analysis. First, we inductively constructed a five-tiered framework for categorizing mission…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Position Papers, Institutional Mission, Guidelines
Ivory Tower or Tower of Babel? The Challenge of Multilingualism for the Globally Embedded University
Mizrahi-Shtelman, Ravit; Drori, Gili S. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Higher education organizations in countries where English is not the native tongue must function in a multilingual mode, using English as their primary language for scientific exchange and academic publication and relying on the native language for instruction and administration. When operating in a multilingual mode of communication and identity…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Flavin, Michael; Zhou Chen, Ting; Quintero, Valentina – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have mission statements as a matter of course. This article analyses 127 mission statements from UK HEIs, comprising 76.048% of the mainstream UK higher education sector. The statements were divided into the categories of Russell Group; Other; and Specialist Institution. A mixed methods research approach was…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Position Papers, Institutional Mission, Language Usage
Download full textCoker, David – International Education Studies, 2022
Public schools widely use mission statements, and many educational administration programs teach mission statements as a necessary lever for school improvement. A mixed methods investigation examined three levels. An experiential phenomenological analysis examined graduate students' experiences with mission statements within their own schools and…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Institutional Mission, Public Schools, Phenomenology
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
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
Faulconer, Emily; Dixon, Zachary; Griffith, John; Faulconer, Laura – Journal of General Education, 2020
This article reports the development of a "course trailer" video series that communicates the professional and academic value of general education courses' core competencies and describes the results of a survey measuring the impact of those videos on student perception. Although general education programs represent a staple of U.S.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Video Technology, Position Papers, General Education
Leal Filho, Walter; Brandli, Luciana Londero; Becker, Deisi; Skanavis, Constantina; Kounani, Aristea; Sardi, Chrysoula; Papaioannidou, Dimitra; Paço, Arminda; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; de Sousa, Luiza Olim; Raath, Schalk; Pretorius, Rudi Wessel; Shiel, Christine; Vargas, Valeria; Trencher, Gregory; Marans, Robert W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Universities, School Policy
BenDavid-Hadar, Iris; Case, Stephoni; Smith, Rob – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
The right to education depends upon a willingness to finance education fairly. Addressing the difference in educational achievement between learners of different backgrounds is a key aspect of fairness. Framed by contemporary neoliberal policies around marketisation and competitiveness, this paper examines fairness in the education finance policy…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Comparative Analysis
Weeks, Matthew; Winningham, Katie James; Winningham, Brandon – Christian Higher Education, 2017
In this study, we investigated Benson, Donahue, and Erikson's (1993) concept of faith maturity as expressed by institutions of higher education (IHE) claiming religious affiliation. We examined the institutional mission statements of 87 schools affiliated with six Protestant denominations in search of evidence of their intention to develop the…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Church Related Colleges, Christianity, Correlation
Kumi, Asamoah Moses; Seidu, Abarichie Adamu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
This article examines some selected Educational Policies of First and Second Cycle Institutions in Ghana and Burkina Faso, in comparison with that of the UK and US. The purpose of the study is to itemise the commonalities and differences in Educational Policies of both developed (UK and US) and developing countries (Ghana and Burkina Faso) in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Developing Nations
Thiel, Corrie; Bellmann, Johannes – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Based on a research project comprising data from an interview study and a survey with teachers and school principals in four German federal states ("Bundesländer"), this paper questions the claim that the side effects of accountability in education are bound to high-stakes contexts, and also provides evidence of side effects occurring in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Surveys, Administrator Surveys, Principals
Baird, Jo-Anne; Gray, Lena – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
The ways in which examination standards are conceptualised and operationalised differently across nations has not been given sufficient attention. The international literature on standard-setting has been dominated by the psychometrics tradition. Broader conceptualisations of examination standards have been discussed in the literature in England,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Position Papers, Educational Policy
