The authoritative ideas of what education should be like under the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) are constructed through discourse among key actors of the "international education community" at large. This article presents the evolution of international education discourse, comparing the periods before and after September…

Culturally and linguistically diverse families experience greater challenges accessing timely, autism-specialized care relative to non-culturally and linguistically diverse families, and ultimately experience less optimal health outcomes. Alternative pathways to access autism care for culturally and linguistically diverse families are needed;…

The 2020 health pandemic and high-profile police murders of Black people inspired national conversations about racism and police brutality. This study examined how Intermediary Public Policy Organizations (IPPOs) discursively engaged with the racialized nature of the pandemic and the police murder of George Floyd, which have increased awareness of…

Multistate networks are arguably the purest expression of the charter sector's original promise as an engine of innovation within the public school system. On its face, this contention may appear somewhat counterintuitive; the proliferation of schools affiliated with charter management organizations (CMOs) that have siphoned market share away from…

An "exploratory instrumental case study" design was used to study interactions between leaders and employees at a large faith-based nonprofit healthcare organization. The study used a four-part intervention to infuse humility into leaders' language, verbal expressions, and non-verbal behaviors, as well as the physical settings in which…

Over the last few decades, both New Zealand and the intergovernmental organisation of UNESCO have widely spread the rhetoric of safety through a broad range of educational issues. This notion, in vogue since the neoliberal turn, has raised little opposition in educational debates. In this article, we use a Foucauldian lens to analyse the…

Much attention has been given in recent years to how the OECD promotes a neoliberal, marketised vision of education. There has been less focus, however, on how the OECD also offers a neocolonial vision of education, which promotes the epistemologies of the Global North at the expense of those of the Global South. This article contributes to this…

Educating the poor and neglected ones especially women became the driving force behind our Charism of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary (SCJM) in Pakistan. Fr. Peter Joseph Triest the founder wanted the Sisters to choose to serve the poor, the vulnerable, rejected and neglected ones of our societies like Jesus Our…

While researchers have studied many aspects of females in the workplace the purpose statement for this study which followed a qualitative descriptive method and design was to explore how female nonprofit human services leaders describe their career journey toward executive leadership and how they overcame any social role challenges they may have…

Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR) is a noninvasive tool to manipulate memory consolidation during sleep. TMR builds on the brain's natural processes of memory reactivation during sleep and aims to facilitate or bias these processes in a certain direction. The basis of this technique is the association of learning content with sensory cues, such…

Coaches develop and use a complex system of strategies to gain access to teachers' classrooms for coaching. In the process, coaches confront micropolitical forces within the school organization that shape access, either enhancing or impeding coaches' chances of being viewed as a trusted and valued partner in teacher learning. In this qualitative…

Strategic leadership is essential for any organization's modern leader. This research aims to study the strategic leadership of provincial administration executives, the operational effectiveness of the organization, the impact of strategic leadership learning on operational effectiveness, and guidelines to improve operational effectiveness. The…

Forms of academic democracy, such as shared, collegial and participatory governance where students and staff have a substantive role in institutional oversight, have long been an aspiration at many universities and colleges worldwide. Yet, concrete efforts to realise self-governance often prove incompatible with the legal and fiduciary…

Evaluation is essential to achieving program outcomes, especially when stakeholders engage with evaluation and make use of the findings. Both of these activities require evaluation capacity that might not be present in community-based organizations. In this paper, we describe how community-university partnership models can support evaluation…

This paper first establishes the need for comprehensive internationalization of institutions of higher education, using frameworks provided by organizations, such as the American Council of Education (ACE) and the International Association of Universities (IAU), as well as by internationalization experts, such as Knight and De Wit. It proceeds…