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Don Zoellner – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
VET researchers and policy-makers have historically displayed a keen interest in the future. Two assumptions link VET to the future. The first is that there is a singular object called VET and, secondly, that it can influence a forthcoming state of reality. This relationship is investigated through a rarely utilised post-structuralist discourse…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Vocational Education
Rachel M. Flynn; Nicholas J. Shaman; Diane L. Redleaf – Society for Research in Child Development, 2023
Policies and programs designed to serve children and families are sometimes misaligned with developmental science research. Broad child neglect reporting laws, first adopted by the United States in 1974, have led to families being prosecuted by child protection authorities for allowing children to participate in everyday age-appropriate activities…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Federal Legislation, Definitions, Child Development
Vossensteyn, Hans; Kolster, Renze; Kaiser, Frans; File, Jon; Huisman, Jeroen; Seeber, Marco; Vukasovic, Martina; Muehleck, Kai; Gwosc, Christoph – European Commission, 2018
Europe's knowledge economies need high-level skills, the capacity to innovate and to support democratic societies. In this perspective, the main objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the relevance of higher education and how this is promoted in various countries in Europe and beyond. The evidence, conclusions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Relevance (Education), Definitions, Public Policy
Vossensteyn, Hans; Kolster, Renze; Kaiser, Frans; File, Jon; Huisman, Jeroen; Seeber, Marco; Vukasovic, Martina; Muehleck, Kai; Gwosc, Christoph – European Commission, 2018
Europe's knowledge economies need high-level skills, the capacity to innovate and to support democratic societies. In this perspective, the main objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the relevance of higher education and how this is promoted in various countries in Europe and beyond. The evidence, conclusions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Relevance (Education), Higher Education, Definitions
Levintova, Ekaterina M.; Mueller, Daniel W. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
One of the difficulties in teaching global sustainability in the introductory political science classes is the different emphases placed on this concept and the absence of the consensus on where the overall balance between environmental protection, economic development, and social justice should reside. Like many fuzzy concepts with which students…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Simulation, Lecture Method, Economic Development
Edwards, Debra; Potts, Anthony – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
Australia is a federation of six states and two territories. Each state and territory has its own legislature, which may not be of the same political persuasion as the Commonwealth (Federal) Government. Under the Australian Constitution primary control of school education is with the State and Territory Governments, with the Australian…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Figurative Language, Educational Change, Foreign Countries

Hudson, Barclay – Social Policy, 1975
Seven domains upon which public policy is said to have an impact are differentiated here. A major intention of the paper is to distinguish between science and trans-science and the validity of including non-objective phenomena as an input into public policy evaluation and formation. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Definitions, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Macdonald, Maurice; Sawhill, Isabel V. – Public Policy, 1978
The purpose of this paper is to explore family-related objectives in income maintenance programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Definitions, Family Structure, Income, Low Income Groups

Nicholson, Linda J. – Journal of Thought, 1979
The author describes the scope and development of a new discipline in American academic life, policy science, and questions whether it can accomplish the aims to which it aspires. (SJL)
Descriptors: Bias, Definitions, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines

Rees, Gwyther; Stein, Mike – Children & Society, 1997
Draws on previous review of literature on adolescent abuse. Argues for response in Britain that includes reconsideration of definitions of abuse; reappraisal of attitudes toward adolescents in general, and those disclosing abuse in particular; development of inter-agency working and styles of working which involve adolescents meaningfully in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Crisis Intervention, Definitions
Daniels, William L. – 1976
The broader question regarding the issue of runaways as a social problem requires incidence figures to estimate the extent of this problem. This paper examines how differing definitions used to describe running away can produce varying estimates of incidence. Due to these variations, levels of incidence range from a low of .0011% to a high of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Definitions, Incidence, Policy Formation

Ward, M. J.; Zambone, A. M. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
This article reports the results of policy research survey examining U.S. government strategies to obtain data on counts of children who are deaf-blind and the issues related to this effort and its outcomes. Problems frequently cited were varying definitions of deaf-blindness among states and lack of accurate data on etiology and severity. (JDD)
Descriptors: Children, Data Collection, Deaf Blind, Definitions

Schwandt, Thomas A., Ed. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1990
An editorial and two articles on quality control in evaluation are presented. Topics covered include definition and assessment of evaluation quality and development of standards for judging quality. Programs inspections activities of the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services are discussed. (TJH)
Descriptors: Definitions, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluators, Federal Programs
Banks, Vera J. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1986
Discusses three alternatives to the standard definition of the farm population as the farm resident population. Alternatives are farm occupation population, farm income population, and total farm-related population. Points out shortcomings, advantages, and appropriate uses for each definition. Notes population characteristics and the overlaps and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Personnel, Census Figures, Definitions, Demography
Hoyt, Kenneth B. – 1975
The U. S. Office of Education's (OE) first comprehensive conceptual statement describing its interpretation of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare policy on career education is presented in this booklet, the official version of an earlier draft. Topics discussed include: Conditions Calling for Educational Reform; Answering the Call for…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Career Education, Definitions