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Mula-Falcón, Javier; Cruz-González, Cristina; Domingo Segovia, Jesús; Lucena Rodríguez, Carmen – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted profound changes in Higher Education. Thus, policymakers in different national contexts worldwide needed to design alternative responses to deal with new educational scenarios. In Spain, rethinking educational management in Higher Education remains an issue of current debate. Methodological readjustments towards…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, COVID-19
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Brown, Martin; Altrichter, Herbert; Shiyan, Igor; Rodríguez Conde, María José; McNamara, Gerry; Herzog-Punzenberger, Barbara; Vorobyeva, Irina; Vangrando, Valentina; Gardezi, Sarah; O'Hara, Joe; Postlbauer, Alexandra; Milyaeva, Daria; Sergeevna, Natalia; Fulterer, Sieglinde; García, Adriana Gamazo; Sánchez, Lourdes – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Whether voluntary or enforced, increasing patterns of migration have significantly impacted schools by making them linguistically, culturally, religiously and ethnically more diverse than ever before. This increasing diversity requires school leaders to put in place mechanisms to ensure equity of participation for migration background students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Cultural Relevance, Cultural Awareness
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Palacios-Hidalgo, Francisco Javier; Gómez-Parra, María Elena; Huertas-Abril, Cristina A. – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
The profound evolution that Spanish language education has experienced since the passing of the first modern educational law in 1970 has led to improved students' proficiency. In this sense, traditional foreign language teaching has been gradually substituted by Bilingual Education in the country to promote language learning, intercultural…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Educational History, Educational Policy
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Teasley, Cathryn – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
Whereas universal public access to early childhood education and care has long occupied a prominent place in feminist demands to end patriarchy, not only has such access gone largely unmet in most countries, save some noteworthy exceptions, but privatized childcare and early education has only gained momentum through neoliberalism, a process that…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
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Gordon, Rhyall – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
A significant section of the alternative food initiative (AFI) literature has expressed concerns about the predisposition of some research to assume neoliberal outcomes from particular AFI practices. As a counterpoint to this, there has been a call for analysis tools that will allow for a more nuanced understanding of the complexities and…
Descriptors: Food, Ethics, Correlation, Eating Habits
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Engel, Laura C.; Rutkowski, David – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
There is increasing attention worldwide to advancing quality education. Beyond a rhetorical aim, many international organizations and national education systems have articulated a commitment to promoting measures of quality education through the development of educational indicators. This article broadly explores the global influences on national…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, International Organizations, Foreign Countries, Educational Indicators
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Villar, Alícia; Hernàndez, Francesc Jesús – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
Based on the results of the authors' research using a case study of a Spanish university, the sociological component of gender is an important factor in building transitions at university. When the authors refer to university transitions they are talking about two periods. Firstly, they refer to the transition of undergraduate students from upper…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Undergraduate Students, Secondary School Students, College Admission
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DePalma, Renée; López, Laura Cruz – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
The social integration of migrant populations has been defined as an intercultural, mutually enriching process, and can be distinguished from processes of assimilation that involve a more unilateral adaptation on the part of immigrants to the norms of the host country. In Spain, this distinction has become blurred in both political and educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Social Integration, Acculturation