New cognitive infrastructures are emerging as digital platforms and artificial intelligence enable new forms of automated thinking that shape human decision-making. This paper (a) offers a new theoretical perspective on automated thinking in education policy and (b) illustrates how automated thinking is emerging in one specific policy context. We…

This paper reports on the extent of policy implementation on strategic planning in secondary schools in Kenya. To achieve the aim of the study, all the 41 sary schools in Rangwe sub-county were included. The targeted respondents were school principals and deputy principals. A purposive sampling method was used to select the respondents from each…

This study aimed to understand, from a critical point of view, the condition of semantic, discursive, and rhetorical displacement that operates in the Colombian educational system, where the category of education has been displaced by the concept of competence. The following question guides the investigation: What are the deep meanings, from…

Background: People with an intellectual disability prefer more choice with employment options and more community facing roles rather than just traditional supported employment roles. However, data reveal that transition rates from supported to open employment in Australia remain very low and these findings are also found internationally. Method:…

The EU policies about what to achieve and how to achieve through the education and training of adults have developed like norms for the EU member states which they find difficult to flout. With the declaration to achieve the European Education Area (EEA) by 2025 and its targets by 2025 and 2030, the EU has laid down a framework for developing the…

This article uses the framework of legal violence to examine two educational labels attached to immigrant young people: newcomer and international student. We demonstrate how these labels function to obscure immigrant students' long-standing relationships with the United States and result in missed opportunities to address how legal violence…

Background: The COVID-19 policy context was characterised by high levels of uncertainty, imperfect knowledge and the need for immediate action. Therefore, governments in Europe tended to rely on expertise provided by advisory bodies to design their crisis response. Advisory bodies played a fundamental part in policy making during the crisis to…

This article analyses higher education quality assurance (QA) policies in Central Europe since their inception in the 1990s. Covering Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, the analysis employs a comparative framework specific to higher education QA, drawing on relevant desk research. The results indicate ideational variations in the…

With the proliferation of the online curriculum resource marketplace, policy actors are increasingly looking to invest in curated hubs of ready-made resources. Policy discourses indicate this phenomenon is heralded worldwide as a panacea for improving teacher workload issues and student achievement. Focusing on Australia, this article examines how…

Transfer students often face significant challenges when attempting to transfer their credits from one institution to another. The University of Texas (UT) System and MDRC developed and field-tested this toolkit to encourage a higher-education system that is more transfer-ready by facilitating the transfer process and including transfer students…

Drawing on critically oriented principles, we invite policymakers and practitioners to extend traditional commitments to bridging the gap between research and policy and practice. To achieve this goal, we move beyond hegemonic norms that privilege traditional forms of research and instead adopt a more inclusive and expansive emphasis on knowledge.…

Norway has a longstanding tradition of prohibiting formal grading in primary education. This paper traces a century of restrictive grading policies and their associated discourses. Using Bacchi's (2009) "What's the Problem Represented to be" framework, we present an analysis of the policy documents that have underpinned Norwegian…

'Students as consumers' has become the dominant discourse applied to English undergraduate students in the United Kingdom. This construction by policymakers is linked to the marketisation of higher education and the increased financial contribution of English students towards their studies. However, the construction of students as consumers, from…

The European Universities Initiative (EUI), launched in 2019, fosters the development of networks of universities across Europe with the aim of enabling students to obtain a degree by combining studies in several countries and strengthening collaboration in both teaching and research, and by extension, the international competitiveness of European…

Smart classrooms offer innovative opportunities to enhance teaching and learning. However, most existing research in this field predominantly focuses on investigating specific technical aspects of the design of the innovation rather than the human interaction with the innovation. In particular, there is very limited research on how smart…