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Marta Entradas; Martin W. Bauer; Frank Marcinkowski; Giuseppe Pellegrini – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2024
This article offers a view on the emerging practice of managing external relations of the modern university, and the role of science communication in this. With a representative sample of research universities in four countries, we seek to broaden our understanding of the "science communication (SC) function" and its niche within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Strategies
Ainscow, Mel; Dyson, Alan; Goldrick, Sue; West, Mel – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
Drawing on experiences in England over many years, this paper explores the authors' efforts to use collaborative inquiry in order to foster greater equity within schools. All of this is set within national policy contexts that emphasise increased school autonomy, competition, and accountability as central improvement strategies. It is argued that…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Context Effect, Educational Policy, Educational Cooperation
Shapiro, Arthur; Koren, Andrej – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2012
This analysis and synthesis explores constructs of professional autonomy and accountability using constructivist theory and practice to examine the organizational dynamics of centralization/decentralization, particularly as applied to educational organizations. Major schools of constructivist thought are explored to shed light on…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Accountability, Foreign Countries, Locus of Control
Fisher, Trevor – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
Following his previous article in this journal on the centralisation of power in English education post the 1988 Education Reform Act ("The Era of Centralisation", "FORUM", 50[2], pp. 255-261), the author considers the apparent turn to school autonomy central to the Conservative Educational Revolution. He argues that the power…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Government School Relationship, Centralization, Politics of Education
Zhang, Yu; Mizunoya, Suguru; You, You; Tsang, Mun – International Education Studies, 2011
This is a study of financial disparities in primary and secondary education in OECD countries that have a relatively large population and a school finance system with decentralized features. These countries include the United States, Britain, Australia, Spain, Canada, and Japan. There are two major research questions: What are the trends in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Fisher, Trevor – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2008
In a "FORUM" article published in 2005 (Volume 47, Nos 2 & 3, see EJ736851) Terry Wrigley argued that "Another school is possible". The article prompted Trevor Fisher to respond explaining why, in his view, the centralising thrust of the 1988 Education Reform Act, the shift in power relationships, the politicisation of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Federal Legislation, Centralization, Educational Policy
Mustafa, Muhannad; Cullingford, Cedric – International Journal of Educational Development, 2008
This paper analyses teachers' attitudes towards the use of textbooks as a means of understanding what happens in a heavily centralized education system. Whilst the research is based on a particular country, the lessons can be applied to many parts of the globalized education system. The research question here is to find out whether the teachers…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, National Curriculum, Freedom, Textbooks
McGuigan, Aileen; Golden, Lucy – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
This paper considers professional development in a context that is familiar and problematic to teaching teams in tertiary education everywhere, that of delivering online programmes with an ever-decreasing complement of staff. The Teaching Qualification Further Education (TQFE) teaching team at University of Dundee confronted the reality of reduced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions, Educational Policy, Web Based Instruction
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Callery, Peter – Nurse Education Today, 2000
Comparison of teacher education and nursing education in Britain shows how centralization and government control of quality assurance and funding diminished teachers' professional autonomy and subjected the profession to public policy shifts. The same could occur in the transfer of nursing education to a government-funded higher education system.…
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Government Role
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Ainscow, Mel; Hopkins, David – Educational Leadership, 1992
In many countries, education legislation embodies contradictory pressures for centralization and decentralization. In the United Kingdom, there is growing government control over policy and direction of schools; schools are also being given more responsibility for resource management. "Moving" schools within Improving the Quality of…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
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Elliott, Geoffrey; Crossley, Michael – Educational Management & Administration, 1997
The recent trend toward development of a radical, market-oriented educational policy with seemingly contradictory pressures for centralization and decentralization has been well-documented. Based on a case study of a large urban (British) college, this paper considers implications, suggesting that contemporary policy thrusts have spawned…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Centralization, Decentralization, Educational Policy
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Holt, Maurice – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1999
Differences between the planning and execution of two 1911-12 polar expeditions transcend matters of aims and resources. Scott's planning approach was deterministic, whereas Amundsen's was deliberative, resolving each problem in its practical, human context. Like Scott's expedition, current U.S. and British attempts to improve education practice…
Descriptors: Centralization, Context Effect, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Glatter, Ron – Educational Management & Administration, 1999
Considers the growing power and influence of the central state in British education and the "policy hysteria" characterizing it. Questions the wisdom of basing policy on performance management and other rationalistic approaches. Recent research suggests that staff commitment and satisfaction are key factors in producing results. (71…
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Woods, Philip – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1996
The United Kingdom's educational reforms promote parental choice and school competition. This paper examines social-class differences among parents and their relationship to choice, using PASCI (Parental and School Choice Interaction) study data. Schools are concentrating on middle-class, academically oriented parents. However, market forces…
Descriptors: Centralization, Change Strategies, Competition, Decentralization
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Morrison, Keith – European Journal of Education, 1994
This paper contends that former Eastern bloc countries, which have rejected centralized, authoritarian political systems, are emulating a United Kingdom school development model which itself is authoritarian, centralized, and coercive. The paper characterizes that authoritarianism and suggests an alternative educational model of centralized…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Centralization, Communism, Educational Development
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