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Melissa Redmond; Liz Woodside; Beth Martin – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: Like other professional training programs, social work pedagogy has long recognized the value of experiential learning for professional development. Despite social work's rich experiential learning literature involving field education, direct practice courses, and program evaluation, there is a dearth of literature examining how to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Social Work, Professional Education, Class Size
Alfred Kweku Ampah-Mensah; Rosemary Seiwah Bosu; Michael Amakyi; Wisdom Kwaku Agbevanu – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper reports on a study that explored the roles of district and community-based education structures (DCES) in preparing, implementing, and communicating education policy initiatives at the district and school levels. A descriptive multiple-case survey design involving three purposefully selected districts was employed. The study used a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Community Education, Administrative Organization
Reynold J. S. Macpherson – Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, 2024
This paper reviews an educative leadership model for reorganizing educational systems and institutions that was proposed in Australia during the 1990s. It compares this model to contemporary and international research findings. The analysis acknowledges the complexity of reorganization, considering the dynamics of systems and societies that impose…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Social Change, Social Influences
Hahn, Carole L. – Human Rights Education Review, 2020
This article examines how some schools with ethnically diverse student populations are teaching "about," "for," and "through" human rights. The author conducted a secondary analysis of qualitative data from a multi-site study, which included secondary schools serving students from immigrant backgrounds in four…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Citizenship Education, Secondary School Students, Immigrants
Campas, Celia Janeth Quiroz; Aguayo, José Marcos Bustos; Nájera, Margarita Juárez; Mojica, Eyder Bolivar; Lirios, Cruz García – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2020
In the framework of policies against the effects of climate change on public health, mobility policies based on zero carbon dioxide emissions have focused their interest on the implementation of bicycle lanes, the bicycle motor subsidy and restriction of automobiles. In this sense, the objective of this paper has been to establish the reliability…
Descriptors: Mobility, Transportation, Urban Planning, City Government
Brennan, Sara C. – Language Policy, 2018
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two towns in the Republic of Ireland, this article explores the local negotiation, endorsement, and contestation of two community-level Irish language advocacy organizations' attempts to regulate the use of Irish in business by mobilizing discourses of language commodification to position Irish as a commercial…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Irish, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
Fasching-Varner, Kenneth J.; Desmarchelier, Renee P.; Wiens, Peter; Schrader, P. G.; Down, Barry; Stewart, Lindsay; Stone, Michaela; Bagnall, Nigel; Lüke, Mareen – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
This article draws upon the cross-continental experiences of teacher educators in Australia, Germany, and the United States to contextualize and connect localized experiences in each country in the education and training of teachers as glocal phenomena. Through a glocal lens, the paper suggests that the dynamics working against the successful…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Neoliberalism
Kirwan, James; Maye, Damian – Journal of Rural Studies, 2013
This paper provides a critical interpretation of food security politics in the UK. It applies the notion of food security collective action frames to assess how specific action frames are maintained and contested. The interdependency between scale and framing in food security discourse is also scrutinised. It does this through an examination of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Risk Management, Politics
Jaramillo, Miguel – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
A focus on the changes in the relationship between international cooperation and local actors in the skills development field in Peru as the country strengthened its financial position in the last two decades allows us to examine the role of the economic factor in these changes. The paper argues that indeed there is an association between the two.…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Economic Factors
Maeda, Koji; Okano, Kaori H. – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
This paper examines how collaboration amongst university, indigenous community and private sector companies can promote Ainu participation in higher education, drawing on a case study of the Urespa Project in Sapporo University, Japan. In this project, the university offers scholarships to Ainu students, requiring them to take a special course in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Benchmarking, Indigenous Populations, Private Sector
Schuller, Tom – Adults Learning, 2010
People live in curious political times when it can be hard to match ideology to party. The outstanding example is in penal policy. Kenneth Clarke announces his Conservative determination to reduce numbers in prison, and to develop alternatives to locking people up. Labour denounces this as soft on crime. Is this how people expect things to line…
Descriptors: Democracy, Local Government, Public Policy, Political Attitudes
Caena, Francesca – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This article reports the findings of a PhD study, which offers comparative perspectives on teacher education in a period of reforms, inquiring into stakeholders' perceptions in English, French, Italian and Spanish contexts as case studies. The interaction of needs and constraints in European initial teacher education within higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change
Curry, Nigel; Fisher, Rhiannon – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
Using Simmel's notion of sociation, the way in which rural elders in England and Wales relate to, or connect with, each other and others within their community, can be seen to be conflictual as well as consensual. As a vehicle for exploiting this relationship, social capital also can be antithetic as well as convergent and an important element of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship, Social Capital
Glaeser, Edward L. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Urbanization almost invariably accompanies development, and the cities of India and China are experiencing spectacular increases in population. The concentration of millions of people in a small mass creates challenges for public policy, especially in the areas of basic infrastructure, public health, traffic congestion, and often law enforcement…
Descriptors: Land Use, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Urban Population
Rodriguez, Daniela Cristina – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In Mexico, as in many other countries, HIV/AIDS strategies are developed at the federal level and implemented at the state level. Local programs are expected to use data, in particular surveillance data, to drive their decisions on programmatic activities and prioritize populations with which the program will engage. Since the early 1980s Mexico…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), State Programs, Prevention, Foreign Countries
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