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Carusi, F. Tony; Szkudlarek, Tomasz – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
Recent work in education research and policy studies has been critical of the view that sees education as a fix for social problems. This perspective invites a reconsideration of the relationship between education and society that breaks from the long held instrumental assumptions informing most education theory and policy, wherein education is a…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Social Problems, Role of Education, World Views
Benz, Thomas – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
Murat Adam is head of policy and curriculum for the European ministry of education. Political pressure is rising. Media channels across the European federation are labeling the continent as the most recent member of the education periphery. In Mr Adam's world, curricular authority transpires from the big 3, the North American Union (NAU), China,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society), Politics of Education
Keller, Deborah Biss; Keller, J. Gregory – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
The current situation in education in the United States of America (USA), with an emphasis on high-stakes testing and privatization, calls for a counter-discourse revealing what is sacrificed by these educational policies and what forms of education are needed to prepare future teachers to engage their students in effecting social justice. We draw…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Theories, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Justice
Yeh, Chuan-Rong – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
Educational competition has always been the puzzle issue of educational researches. In this article, I analyze several aspects of educational competition within the perspective of post-colonialism discourse. In the political aspect, Taiwanese education is linked with political power, to present the post-colonial spirit by continuing dynastic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Sociology, Foreign Policy, Time Perspective
Ringarp, Johanna – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
As an answer to the welfare state's transformation and increased focus on goal- and result-oriented regulation, Swedish educational policy is in a state of change. The matter of the teaching profession's aspirations with regard to professionalisation has come up once again: reminders that reference the introduction of teacher certification in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teacher Certification, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Sunker, Heinz; Swiderek, Thomas – Policy Futures in Education, 2007
Conditions of children's political socialisation and education have more than ever in the last 40 years to deal with questions of social inclusion and exclusion. This is a result of social cleavages which are pertinent for children's lives and experiences. This article deals with this question while favouring an approach which shows that a…
Descriptors: Democracy, Community Action, Childrens Rights, Children
Regan, Priscilla M.; Khwaja, Elsa Talat – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
The field of education technology (edtech) has emerged as a complex, multimillion-dollar industry, with various hubs in the USA leading the boom. This exploratory article uses a networks perspective to reveal the power dynamics of investor firms in edtech. The analysis examines the current top venture capitalists and their edtech companies, based…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Kindergarten, Corporations
Nordensvard, Johan – Policy Futures in Education, 2013
This article suggests that one needs to consider education as inherently political to better understand some of the problems in education policy in developing countries. It suggests that using political metaphors as a discursive framework can enhance the understanding of some of the limitations of formal schooling in developing countries.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Developing Nations, Politics
Hachem, Ali H. – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
The American university is in transition, witnessing major changes to its institutional structures and processes. While the 1960s and 1970s were decades of progressive democratization in American higher education, today's university is more aligned with the economic theory of neoliberalism. Existing at the intersection of two dominant but…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Educational Change, Neoliberalism
Toh, Glenn – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
This article examines a case of what Olssen et al. (2004) call "managerial oppression" set in a faculty of international studies of a Japanese university. Japanese universities have, in recent times, been facing the financial pressures of a falling birthrate and dwindling enrolments. To remain solvent, some universities have had to…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Change, Power Structure, Bullying
Freeman-Moir, John – Policy Futures in Education, 2004
Turning towards history--to be contrasted with turning away from history--captures the Marxian sense of education. Marx worked out the elements of a theory of political education in relation to history by equating education with the coincidence of the changing of circumstances and people. This theory received its most comprehensive yet succinct…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Global Approach, Marxian Analysis
Vlieghe, Joris; Zamojski, Piotr – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
In this article, we read together the work of two philosophers, Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben, as profound educational thinkers. This means that their philosophical approaches help us to articulate what is at stake in education today. As a starting point for this discussion we take their work on Saint Paul. This is because, throughout his…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Criticism, Political Issues, Teaching Methods
Lauglo, Jon; Oia, Tormod – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
What role does formal education play in the political socialization of youth? The article presents findings from a national survey in 2002 of more than 11,000 youths aged 13-19 in Norway. Indicators of political socialization are: an index of expressed interest in politics and social issues, participation in membership organizations of a political…
Descriptors: Social Class, Political Socialization, Foreign Countries, Role of Education
Duff, Celeste – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Globally, mindfulness is an emerging and innovative trend in education. Specifically, in school-based education, there has been growing excitement surrounding the implementation of mindfulness. Although policy, political and economic shifts and powers may seem quite far removed from the realities of children and mindfulness, the political economy…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Metacognition, Political Attitudes
Vezjak, Boris – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
Slogans in education are designed to promote educational goals. One of the finest remarkable examples in Slovenian history demonstrates that political slogans can sometimes cover a whole range of social areas and operate as a central ideologeme, through which a very specific political and educational ambition was promoted in an otherwise…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Strategies, Rhetoric, Philosophy