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Neil Kaye – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
Despite much empirical evidence highlighting the harmful effect of socioeconomic disadvantage on educational outcomes, there is a relative lack of understanding of how different risk factors impact upon attainment. Importantly, it has yet to be established what effect, if any, austerity cuts have had on the most disadvantaged students. Using rich…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
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Bamber, Philip; Bullivant, Andrea; Clark, Alison; Lundie, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
There has been significant discussion and debate about the meaning and implementation of the requirement for schools to promote fundamental British values. While much of the research in this area focuses on surveying teachers' attitudes, this paper set out to understand the processes of professional enactment through which beginning teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Placement, Foreign Countries, Professional Identity
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Panjwani, Farid – Oxford Review of Education, 2017
It is widely accepted in academia and state policies that recent years have seen an increasing stress on publicly enacted Muslim identity in Britain and in many other parts of the world. Less recognised is the fact that many among those who call themselves Muslims do not share religion as a predominant identity-attribute for themselves. Such…
Descriptors: Muslims, Islamic Culture, Identification, Religion
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Halpin, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
Romanticism's valuing of love and the life of the imagination, combined with its belief in human potential taken heroically to and beyond its limits, provides a way of addressing differently and fruitfully certain issues to do with pedagogy in schools, making in particular better sense of what it means to be an effective teacher and a productive…
Descriptors: Romanticism, Intimacy, Imagination, English Literature
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Kogan, Maurice – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
Anthony Crosland was the most formative of education ministers in the 1960s whose contribution promoted intellectual activity within the policy discourse. He retains an iconic status for that reason. He provided the intellectual foundations of "revisionism" which emancipated the Labour Party from belief in nationalisation as the way to…
Descriptors: Biographies, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Public Education
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Johnson, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
The article compares the educational policy trajectories of four societies in the South-west Indian Ocean: Madagascar, Mauritius, Ile de la Reunion and South Africa. The main purpose is to trace the political pathways and differing educational policy trajectories of former colonies of Britain and France. Five metaphors are invoked in this paper to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Policy