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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Policy enactment"”.
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Parental engagement in primary schooling in Aotearoa New Zealand: A policy enactment case study
… evidence, it is promoted in educational policy in many countries, including Aotearoa New Zealand. Nevertheless, research demonstrates a gap between the rhetoric and the reality of parental engagement practice. The critiques of factors and barriers influencing the gap in practice do not …
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Privilege and Vulnerability: Early Study Abroad Experiences and Policy Enactment in a Superdiverse Secondary School
… students and informed by a reading of relevant policy documents. I use several complementary frameworks: Bronfenbrenner’s (1977) ecological model of development; theories from critical policy research (Ball, 1993, 2015; Ball et al., 2012; Levinson & Sutton, 2001) and engaged language policy and …
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Schools deciding the purpose of education: Policy enactment in a context of goal-expanding, high-stakes accountability reform
… Schools deciding the purpose of education: Policy enactment in a context of goal-expanding, high-stakes accountability reform Javiera Marfán Sánchez New shared challenges across the globe are pressing educational systems towards pursuing an expansion in the range of goals to pursue, …
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Professionals’ perceptions of young males in child sexual exploitation policy: a critical policy genealogical analysis
… of, female victims within professional practice, policy and research. Historical and contemporary CSE discourse is largely conceptualised through Feminism and Moral Panic Theory, enmeshed within a general reduction of available professional vocabulary in English child protection policy. This …
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Technology Transfer through High Technology Corridors : A Study of Multi-agency Partnership Learning.
… the implementation of a 'technology transfer' policy in High Technology Corridors (HTCs), which responded to a critical incident in the West Midlands. The policy was a direct result of the crisis at the Rover Automotive Plant in 1999, when it was threatened by possible closure with the …
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Access to primary music education in Aotearoa New Zealand
… illustrates inconsistent provision and enactment of music education in Aotearoa New Zealand, suggesting that some children are unable to access the full curriculum. While this situation has been attributed to a range of factors, there are significant gaps in the literature, making it …
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Principal Leadership and the Virginia Literacy Act: From Policy Interpretation to Implementation
… school principals in implementing early literacy policy changes within Virginia's school districts, focusing on the Virginia Literacy Act (VLA). Amid concerns about declining literacy rates, recent legislative reforms mandate evidence-based reading instruction across the state, bringing urgent …
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Incentives in the classroom: performance-based compensation implementation and impact in high performing schools in Shanghai, China
… and contemporary debates in educational policy and research question the potential of this incentivist policy to improve teaching. Some scholars warn that decades of experimental research have found bonuses yield little or no improvement in various measures of teaching quality and student …
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Teaching the new English curriculum in a Chinese school : An ethnographic study.
… as being needed for further research: situated policy enactment and teacher agency; provided empirical data for policy planning and teacher education; extended understanding of teacher cognition in a global context and offered insights for applying multiple methods and theories in research …
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Curriculum innovation through teacher certification: Evaluation of a government intervention and its effects on teacher development and English language pedagogy in South Korea
… a case study method. The data collected include policy documents and practical documents generated during the certification procedure; interviews with eighteen different stakeholders including the policy makers, teacher assessors, teacher trainers, and English language teachers; and observation …
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Enacting teacher evaluation reform: Reconsidering resistance during processes of policy realization
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-05-17 at 09:12.
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Intercultural Perspectives on Managing Organizational Change in Response to Government Policy Reform: A Case Study on the Leadership of New Oriental Education
<p>In 2021, a policy aimed at addressing educational inequality triggered a significant upheaval in the private tutoring sector of China by fundamentally transforming prevailing business models and financial viability within the industry. New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (New Oriental …
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Meritocracy: A Socio-Educational Policy Conundrum Transversing Selected Works of James Bryant Conant
… meritocracy and their influences on educational policy enactment. I conducted specific archival research on a portion of the personal papers of James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) on the Campus of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ. I also conducted one personal interview with an …
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Unveiling the layers of educational reform: A critical realist analysis of the ideation, development and enactment of the Philippine professional standards for teachers policy
… Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST) policy introduced under the conditions of official development assistance. With the technical and financial support of the government of Australia, this policy introduces clear indicators of professional competence that challenge traditional views …
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Teachers' work experiences, portrayals of teachers in policy, and teacher perception of policy during COVID-19
… of the debate and on the receiving end of policy coming down from state governance were public-school classroom teachers. Historically, this top-down dynamic is certainly not new for the teaching profession (Lortie, 1975; Cohn et al., 1993; Gratch, 2000). Intersecting with this reality is …
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Rainbow Promises, Uneven Promises: Framing LGBTQIA+ Educational Policy and Possibility in Education
… streams theory, this study conceptualizes policy implementation as a dynamic and socially constructed process influenced by power, ideology, and institutional context. Data were collected through interviews, document and artifact analysis, and observations, with analysis that used a …