This article critically reflects upon the "divides" among actors within two currently popular education policies in low-income countries: decentralisation and Universal Primary Education (UPE). Current literatures suggest that the existing decentralisation framework tends to overlook the "divides" among actors that often impede…

This article explores cultural factors impeding members of the school community from engaging in shared decision-making (SDM) processes. It reports on findings from a larger qualitative research study of SDM in Egypt's secondary schools. The purpose of the study was to identify barriers to SDM, using data collected from nine general secondary…

Pioneering Partners provides K-12 educators in the Great Lakes Region--Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin--with educational technology development opportunities, coalition-building opportunities, dissemination skills training, connection to Greatlinks Net/Internet, and financial support to defray…

An international effort is under way to measure and assess the nature of imposed political reforms to education systems. Education is changing in relation to new structures and practices brought about during the process of reform at the school level. This paper investigates policy analysis of national reform in Australia, and in various states of…

What happens when the rhetoric of school reform meets the realities of school change? In this book, a teacher offers a down-to-earth, very personal, often funny account of what life is like in a middle-class, suburban high school where teachers, students, and administrators struggle against school bureaucracy, inertia, and the difficulty of…

This paper is a fable for the role of teachers and educational technology. The subject of the fable is a new set of educational techniques called CBT (Cereal Box Technique, or Technology). The story discuses the introduction, implementation, attitudes toward, development of, and teacher uses of CBT under the following headings: Introduction of a…

The imperative for educational reform is more pressing now than ever, but change is slow and unsure. This paper offers a series of 11 proposals designed to demonstrate that educators can more fully participate in the structuring and forming (more than "reforming") of education. In summary, the proposals, each of which is fully described…

The 1984 Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research celebrated its 50th jubilee and marked the retirement of John Waston (Director, 1968-1984) by organizing an invitational seminar. The proceedings of this seminar features 13 presentations: "Introduction" (David Philips); "Official Welcoming Address" (M.…

Article discussed the nature and future of educational futurology and took a brief glance into the history of the idea of futurism (or futuristics) in general, and in education in particular. (Author/RK)

A modified Delphi technique and Q-sort was used to replicate and update a previous study conducted four years earlier. The views of chief administrative officers in English-language teacher education institutions in Canada about the future of teacher education were sought. (Editor)

Affiliating universities in India have administrative responsibility for their teaching departments, postgraduate (P.G.) centre, and affiliated colleges. Growth in the number of colleges has resulted in desire for decentralization. These authors propose that P.G. centres be given more autonomy and administrative responsibility for some of the…

Author considered the question of school size and its effect upon the individual learner or teacher. (Author/RK)

Article evaluated what is too large or too small in the size of comprehensive schools and how that factor affected educational development. (RK)

Article described the functions and objectives of the Netherlands Organisation for the Advancement of Pure Research (ZWO). (RK)

These articles served to illustrate the nature of art education in England and Wales with the emphasis on experiencing art education and art in education at first hand in every conceivable setting and at every possible level. (Author/RK)