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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Critical policy analysis"”.
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A Critical Policy Analysis of Universal Preschool in Colorado: Its Roots, Intentions, and Development
… from marginalized communities. This qualitative critical policy analysis examines transitioning from the targeted Colorado Preschool Program (CPP) to a universal preschool approach through the 2022 Colorado House Bill 1295: Department of Early Childhood and Universal Preschool Program. Drawing on …
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Critical policy analysis of police presence in Florida, Illinois, and Texas county district schools
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Governing Choice: A Critical Policy Analysis of Charter Schools in Indianapolis Through the Lens of Governmentality
… “Governmentality” and the methodology of Critical Policy Analysis, this research addresses the question of how charter school policies reflect and reinforce governmental rationalities and power structures in Indianapolis, Indiana. The purpose of this research is to examine how charter …
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An LRE Placement Loophole: A Critical Policy Analysis of LRE Placement in Defining Disproportionality of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
… groups within the Colorado community. In this critical policy analysis, I used quantitative methods to analyze and explore the difference between the odds ratio calculation of culturally and linguistically diverse students (CLDS) in special education with a least restrictive environment (LRE) …
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Health, the Body, and Movement: What Is Health and Physical Education For? A Critical Policy Analysis of Health and Physical Education Curriculum Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand, China, and Japan
… intervention and body regulation. HPE curriculum policy is a key vehicle that transforms such discourses into curricular aims, priorities, and expectations. Drawing on Foucauldian concepts of discourse, knowledge/power, and problematisation, this thesis combines Norman Fairclough’s textually …
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The Critique of Everyday Drought: A Feminist Decolonial Analysis of Hydro-Climate Policies in Cape Town, South Africa
This dissertation offers a feminist decolonial analysis of the power dynamics shaping urban hydro-climate policies in the context of a growing push by the World Bank and other powerful actors to create new opportunities for water-related private investments in the global South. Drawing from the …
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The policies and discourses of vocational education and training and their impact on the information of teacher's identities
… and uses the methods and methodologies of critical policy analysis, phenomenology and ethnography to investigate the research questions. It then uses a number of diverse theoretical perspectives to challenge and interrogate the interpretation made of the data gathered. The study undertakes …
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Policy Partners in the Neoliberal Age: Corresponding School and Prison Reforms Since 1970
<p>This dissertation is a comparative policy study of changes in education and incarceration of the past 40 years. Following national and global trends, New York City saw public school and carceral policies converge as the city experienced massive deindustrialization and governmental cutbacks while …
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Who Gets the Power, Resources, and Knowledge from California Assembly Bill 705?
… in the early implementation of AB 705. The Critical Policy Analysis framework will be used to see what teachers are noticing with their students and what is happening at their institutions in terms of distribution of power, resources, and knowledge, and if inequality and privilege exist …
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A critical analysis of the assessment of overseas - qualified nurses
… in this study. The aim of the study was, to critically analyse the policy development and policies relating to assessment of overseas - qualified nurses in thirteen nurse regulatory authorities from Australia and overseas. Using Critical Social Theory as the theoretical underpinning a …
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Supporting epistemic justice through institutional student agency: district leaders’ conceptions of shared power
… for and barriers to enacting district-level policy and practice aimed at supporting epistemic justice through building institutional student agency. The notion of supporting epistemic justice through institutional student agency bridges educational equity and definitions of agency because it …
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Tracking Segregation: Experiences of African American High School Students in Low- and High -Track Math and English Classes
… space for students themselves as legitimate policy informants to speak back to tracking policy effects on individual students, this project fills a substantial knowledge gap. It employs a case study methodology, incorporating individual interviews, focus groups, classroom observations and …
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For My Oklahomies: Educators’ Perspectives on Policy, Public Discourse, and Professional Wellbeing
<p>This critical qualitative study examines how ideologies rooted in ultra-conservative movements shape the professional lives of Oklahoma K–12 educators, and how they maneuver, resist, or accommodate ideological forces within a climate of surveillance and professional delegitimization. Grounded in …
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What a Drag! Censorship and the Criminalization of Alternative Gender Performance
… child protection rhetoric and morality-based policymaking, rely on vague legal language and selective enforcement to suppress gender nonconformity while maintaining plausible deniability of discriminatory intent. Despite significant scholarship on LGBTQIA+ rights, policy diffusion, and free …
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Neoliberalization of educational policy discourses in Chile
… the former with the later through a discursive analysis of the LGE. It also emphasizes that while global neoliberal frameworks might contribute to shape national policy discourses, understanding their intricacies, the meanings and articulations of the words chosen, and ultimately, their …
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Navigating national priorities, regionalism and internationalisation in National Universities of Moana Oceania
… exchange. Methodologically, the study employs critical (Indigenous) ethnography and multiple descriptive case studies, drawing on talanoa, tok stori, and storian as culturally grounded, responsive, and relational knowledge-sharing, supported by collaborative sensemaking and critical policy …
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Black Feminist Liberatory Pedagogy and Ubuntu Solidarity: Toward an Otherwise World of Education
… ideological hegemony embedded in education policy, the second manuscript is an ethnographic portrait (Lawrence-Lightfoot and Davis, 1997) that resists the "white gaze" and illuminates the good in a thriving classroom comprised of Black and Brown teachers and students through a lens of Black …
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