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2. Learning To Compete: Education, Training & Enterprise in Ghana, Kenya & South Africa. Education Research Paper.
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Department for International Development, London (England)., Afenyadu, Dela, King, Kenneth, McGrath, Simon, Oketch, Henry, Rogerson, Christian, and Visser, Kobus
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A multinational, multidisciplinary team examined the impact of globalization on education, training, and small and medium sized enterprise development in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. The study focused on the following issues: developing a learner-led competitiveness approach; building learning enterprises; education for microenterprises and macroeconomic growth; and training for self-employment and competitiveness. The study documented the importance of learning-led competitiveness and identified obstacles to development of learning enterprises in all three countries. The following are among the 12 recommendations offered to national governments and international agencies with development concerns: (1) insert learning-led competitiveness into development debates; (2) understand the implications of globalization better; (3) address the range of barriers to development of learning enterprises; (4) consider interenterprise linkages and the role of learning therein; (5) place learning-led competitiveness at the heart of small enterprise development policy; (6) broaden the universal primary education vision; (7) construct a curriculum for competitiveness; (8) improve public training's ability to support competitive self-employment; (9) empower training providers to be more market responsive; and (10) emphasize skills transfer from large to small firms. (The bibliography lists 139 references. Brief profiles and addresses of the research team members and a list of project papers are appended.) (MN)
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- 2001
3. Walking a Desire Track: Montessori Pedagogy as Resistance to Normative Pathways
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Nathan Archer
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Following calls to 'bewilder' (Snaza 2013) the pioneers of early education, this article positions Montessori pedagogy as a 'desire path' that acts as resistance to normative policy-driven pathways in early childhood education and care. Desire paths are alternative tracks made aside from officially established walking routes. In this paper I think with the metaphor of pathways and desire paths positioning an educator's choice to practice Montessori pedagogy as an approach which wanders outside of mainstream qualifications and education. To do this, I take fragments of a professional life story that chart the agentic nature of choosing Montessori pedagogy as a way to problematise how walking that desire line challenges, and defies normative pathways. I also propose a re-reading of Montessori's pedagogy, not as pioneering but as nomadic, and suggest that "social" desire paths enable Montessori education to be viewed as multiple, situated, alternative tracks to prescribed pathways.
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- 2024
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4. Education Policy and Practice on Intimate Partner Violence among Young People in the UK
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Sheng, Xiaomin
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This paper presents a qualitative systematic review of educational policy and practice on tackling intimate partner violence (IPV) among young people in the UK. Up to date, the majority of school-based IPV interventions were conducted in the US and now there is growing consensus among UK policymakers, researchers and practitioners as well to address IPV issues through educational practice. This review aims at gathering evidence of the type and nature of policies and institutional level practice adopted to tackle IPV issues among young people within an educational context, and what impacts these interventions have on mitigating the occurrence of IPV. In undertaking this review, three databases (Eric, BEI and Scopus) were searched and grey literature was manually added. Findings from the review suggest that the majority of interventions were effective in altering attitude and promoting awareness of IPV. Still, longitudinal studies are needed to see if changes in attitude can be translated into the effective behavioural alteration in real-life situation. Although most students expressed satisfaction toward the existing interventions, it was also found that lack of consideration of gender can lead to uncomfortable feelings among students. There were contradictory views regarding whether teachers or external experts would be a better person to deliver the intervention and who was the person students preferred to turn to for help. Besides, country-wide interventions are needed to make sure all schools have an opportunity to provide IPV education, and the support from the UK government is of crucial importance to make this happen.
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- 2020
5. No Outsiders in Our School: Neglected Characteristics and the Argument against Childhood Ignorance
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Moffat, Andrew and Field, Lewis
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Aims: The present article seeks to explore the historical context of relationships and sex education (RSE) and examine the positioning of 'No Outsiders' within this. Consideration is given to the credibility of arguments against the implementation of No Outsiders in education settings and examination of whether diversity strands of 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' deserve the disproportionate amount attention they receive. Method: The paper utilises Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development (1950, 1963) to interpret the capacity of understanding of children and young people (CYP) in relation to an RSE curriculum. Contemporary research outlines the need for an environment which enables exploration. Further consideration deconstructs the argument for childhood innocence as a reason for not providing an informed RSE curriculum. Findings: The paper reports on the inherent difficulties of delivering an RSE curriculum, which may require the reconciliation and compromise of personal and societal values. Equally, there is a clear need for schools, institutions and society to remain steadfast and resolute in the face of discriminatory views. Limitations: The challenges in unifying groups who divide themselves on core issues is recognised, however a legislative backdrop frames the foundation for how this can be achieved. Conclusions: The 'No Outsiders in Our School' resource offers a fresh approach to the teaching of relationships education in primary schools (Moffat, 2015). Despite its seemingly harmonious early existence, the programme has suffered significant scrutiny, precipitating protests, vilification and condemnation by some sections of society. Matters of sexual orientation and gender reassignment deserve equal recognition as protected characteristics under the Equality Act (2010). Too often, the legitimacy of these protected characteristics are questioned or presented as 'other' within the context of equality. The move towards a more inclusive RSE curriculum should be brave in its embodiment of legislative policy.
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- 2020
6. The Educational Is Political
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Standish, Paul
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Many approaches to political education take it to involve the construction of particular sections of the curriculum in which political matters are addressed -- named perhaps "civics" or "citizenship education". While these approaches have often been beneficial, they are all also problematic and controversial in some degree. Moreover, it is sometimes said that political education operates across a wide range of what happens in educational institutions -- for example, in the ways of behaving that are promoted inside and outside the classroom, in the general ethos of the school or college, and through its marking of significant dates or events. The approach adopted in this paper takes a more radical line, however, in that it resists the restriction of the political that these approaches assume. This is not to argue for the mobilization of schools and other educational institutions as instruments of politics. It is rather to try to show that matters of political significance are pervasive in the curriculum. The substance of the curriculum is an expression of what the culture takes to be important and of the values that the culture wishes to pass on. The fostering of those values must have some effect on the kind of society that is then promoted, and indeed this must be inherent in the aims of education.
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- 2019
7. A New Shape for Post-16 Education and Training. Submission to the Department for Education and Employment Review of Local and National Arrangements for Lifelong Learning, Skills and Workforce Development: Outcome of the TEC Review.
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The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE), which represents 65,000 academic staff working in further and higher education (FHE) institutions across the United Kingdom, reviewed the current state of post-16 education and training in the United Kingdom and submitted its views on how the system should be improved. NATFHE's submission focused on a new framework encompassing structures at every level of government. Key recommendations for action that were included in the submission are as follows: (1) give coherence to post-16 education and training by developing a whole new framework built on accountability and entitlement to lifelong learning; (2) underpin the framework by the principle of subsiduarity that planning, regulation, accountability, funding, and delivery should occur at the point nearest the learner and nearest delivery; (3) make local communities the cornerstones of the new framework, with local lifelong learning panels and plans; (4) move speedily to pass legislation to embed a statutory framework for entitlement to learning, including individual rights to paid educational leave; (5) conduct an independent review of pay and conditions for FE staff to reverse the current chaos in employment matters; and (6) ensure that the new framework provides mechanisms at every level for the views of staff and their representatives. (MN)
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- 1999
8. To What Extent Have Learners with Severe, Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties Been Excluded from the Policy and Practice of Inclusive Education?
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Colley, Andrew
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The article is a position paper on inclusive practice in education with respect to students with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties (sld/pmld). It asks if children and young people with sld/pmld have been excluded from the policy and the practice of inclusive education. A review of the literature found that there is a research gap around inclusive education for learners with sld/pmld, and a review of historical and current practices indicated that this group of learners has indeed been excluded from both the policy and practice of inclusion in the United Kingdom with the use of curricula based on a mainstream linear and academic model reinforcing this exclusion. The study makes a theoretical and practical contribution to the continuing debate about inclusive education and will be of interest to teachers, parents, policy-makers and the learners themselves.
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- 2020
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9. Autonomy and Accountability in Schools Serving Disadvantaged Communities
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Klein, Esther Dominique
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Purpose: Increased school autonomy and accountability have been a common denominator of national reforms in otherwise heterogeneous governance systems in Europe and the USA. The paper argues that because schools serving disadvantaged communities (SSDCs) often have lower average performance, they are more often sanctioned or under closer scrutiny, but might also receive more additional resources. The purpose of this paper is to therefore analyze whether SSDCs have more or less autonomy than schools with a more advantageous context in four countries with heterogeneous autonomy and accountability policies. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on the data from the Programme for International Student Assessment 2012 school and student questionnaires from Finland, Germany, the UK, and the USA. The choice of countries is based on different governance models described by Glatter "et al." (2003). The data are used to identify SSDCs and analyze the reported autonomy in resource allocation and curriculum and assessment. Using regression analyses, patterns are analyzed for each country individually. They are then juxtaposed and compared. Differences are related back to the governance models of the respective countries. Findings: The results indicate an association between the communities the schools are serving and the autonomy either in the allocation of resources, or the curriculum and assessment. SSDCs appeared to have a little more autonomy than schools with a more advantageous context in Finland, Germany, and the UK, but less autonomy in the USA. The comparison suggests that in the USA, autonomy is rather a reward for schools that have the least amount of need, whereas in the other three countries it could be a result of strategies to improve schools in need. The paper discusses possible explanations in the policies and support structures for SSDCs. Originality/value: The effects of increased school autonomy and accountability on student achievement have been discussed at length. How different accountability policies affect the autonomy of schools with the highest needs has so far not been studied. The study can be understood as a first step to unravel this association. Following steps should include in-depth investigations of the mechanisms underlying increased or diminished autonomy for SSDCs, and the consequences for school improvement in these schools.
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- 2017
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10. Qualifications for the Future: A Study of Tripartite and Other Divisions in Post-16 Education and Training.
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Further Education Development Agency, London (England)., Stanton, Geoff, and Richardson, William
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This document contains eight papers examining different aspects of categorization, divisions, and choice in further education (FE) that were commissioned during a study of tripartite pathways (for example, academic, vocational and applied) in education and training for 16-19 year olds in the United Kingdom. The following papers are included: "The Historical Perspective: Myths and Realities behind Tripartite Divisions in FE" (Bill Bailey); "The Consumer Perspective: Tripartism as a Response to Market Pressures" (Alison Wolf); "The Psychological Perspective: Tripartite and Other Divisions in Post-16" (Bryan Dockrell); "The Sociological Perspective: Post-compulsory Education Policy in Transition: From Crowther to Dearing and Beyond" (Denis Gleeson); "The Curriculum Perspective: Education and Training: The Prevocational Tradition" (Richard Pring); "The Employment Perspective: Stakeholders, Skills and Star Gazing: The Problematic Relationship between Education, Training, and the Labour Market" (Prue Huddleston, Lorna Unwin); "The International Perspective: Learning from International Comparisons" (David Parkes); and "Overview: Developing Qualifications for the Future" (Geoff Stanton). (Chapters contain references.) (MN)
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- 1997
11. Annotation in School English: A Social Semiotic Historical Account
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Jewitt, Carey, Bezemer, Jeff, and Kress, Gunther
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What exactly has changed in the production of secondary school English over the last decade? To provide one part of an answer to that question, this paper takes the practice of annotation--a defining activity of the subject English in the UK seldom researched--and uses it as a device for uncovering aspects of changes in the subject. The theoretical approach is that of multimodal social semiotics with an historical perspective. A multimodal approach looks beyond language to all forms of communication. The approach used in this paper allows investigation of the interactions among changes in the social environment, policy, curriculum, technology, and student resources. The authors draw on illustrative examples from three research projects around subject English. Their analysis shows that by 2009, the policy, technological, and communicational landscape of school English had changed dramatically. Now the majority of English lessons are taught on an Internet-enabled interactive whiteboard (IWB) supported by scanners, visualizers, and wireless peripherals such as slates. (Contains 3 figures.)
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- 2011
12. Education, Training and the Future of Work II: Developments in Vocational Education and Training.
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Flude, Mike, Sieminski, Sandy, Flude, Mike, and Sieminski, Sandy
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This book contains 13 papers on developments in vocational education and training in Great Britain and the future of work. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Geoff Esland, Mike Flude, Sandy Sieminski); "The Roles of the State and the Social Partners in Vocational Education and Training Systems" (Andy Green); "Education Training and Economic Performance in Comparative Perspective" (David Finegold); "Vocationalism and Educational Change" (Rob Moore, Mike Hickox); "Industrial Training or New Vocationalism? Structures and Discourses" (Stephen Ball); "Contextualizing Public Policy in Vocational Education and Training: The Origins of Competence-Based Vocational Qualifications Policy in the UK" (Steve Williams, Peter Raggatt); "The Competence and Outcomes Movement: The Landscape of Research" (Inge Bates); "Reality Testing in the Workplace: Are NVQs [National Employment Qualifications]'Employment-Led'?" (John Field); "A Critique of NVQs and GNVQs [General National Vocational Qualifications]" (Alan Smithers); "Ideology and Curriculum Policy: GNVQ and Mass Postcompulsory Education in England and Wales" (Denis Gleeson, Phil Hodkinson); "The Implementation of GNVQs in Further Education: A Case Study" (Margaret Bird, Geoff Esland, Jane Greenberg, Sandy Sieminski, Karen Yarrow); "The Politics of Training in Britain: Contradictions in the TEC [Training and Enterprise Council] Initiative" (Jamie Peck); "Markets, Outcomes and the Quality of Vocational Education and Training: Some Lessons from a Youth Credits Pilot Scheme" (Phil Hodkinson, Heather Hodkinson); and"Policy and Accountability" (Lee Harvey, Peter Knight). All papers include substantial bibliographies. (MN)
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- 1999
13. Enframing Geography: Subject, Curriculum, Knowledge, Responsibility
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Winter, Christine
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The word "geo-graphy" means "writing the earth". The subject of geography bears responsibility for engaging, constituting and configuring world knowledge, in other words, what the world is. This paper describes an enquiry into the nature of school geographical knowledge at a time of curriculum policy reform. In 2010, the newly appointed Coalition government in Britain introduced the concept of core knowledge for the school curriculum. Some of the problems associated with core knowledge are illustrated by showing two alternative ways of knowing the world that core knowledge overlooks. To understand the nature of the constitution of knowledge, I turn to Heidegger. His idea of Enframing explains the emergence of meaning about the world within the constraints of a technical scheme that conceals as much as it reveals. A second idea of Heidegger's, the event of appropriation, suggests how meaning comes into being through the "belonging together" of humans and the world. This belonging together takes us away from representational thinking into the realm of a more original and authentic sense of what is. Although this appears to provide a very credible argument about world meaning-making, it is superseded by Derrida's critique of Heidegger as someone who claims to deconstruct the history of ontology at the same time as retaining a commitment to it. Derrida's "differance" advances Heidegger's work into a consideration of meaning and justice. The associated deconstructive attitude takes responsibility seriously by disrupting taken-for-granted meanings and conceptual schemes and opening them up to see what other groups of people or ways of knowing might be overlooked. (Contains 4 figures and 4 notes.)
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- 2012
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14. Exploring Variation in Nurse Educators' Perceptions of the Inclusive Curriculum
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Carey, Philip
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This paper reports findings from a study into how nurse educators view the notion of an inclusive curriculum within their discipline. UK nurse education is professionally accredited, with substantial levels of work-based learning. Therefore, this analysis should be useful to practitioners on other professional courses. The study was based on a phenomenographic analysis of data collected from interviews with 15 nurse educators in one university. Analysis exposed wide variation in respondents' perceptions and experiences of developing and delivering an inclusive curriculum. Much discussion focused on teaching students with disabilities and tutors expressed concern over implications regarding fitness for practice and public safety. However, there was recognition that diversity was a feature of the contemporary educational environment and that nursing courses had much to gain from inclusive practices. Key differences identified related to the extent to which change was required to current processes and practices. The findings indicated a concern over support for educators to manage these issues and suggested that in the absence of more robust direction, the student experience is shaped by the attitudes of individual tutors. In light of this, the author suggests that a coordinated and consistent response from the higher education establishment, professional bodies, practitioners and policy-makers is necessary to fully establish the notion of inclusive curricula in any professionally accredited course. (Contains 1 figure.)
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- 2012
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15. Towards a New ABC of Curriculum-Making: A Reply to John Hopkin
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White, John
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This is a reply to John Hopkin's article in this number of "FORUM" on "Re-energising subject knowledge" (Volume 54, Number 2, 2012). It argues that Hopkin does not provide sufficiently cogent reasons for continuing the tradition of a subject-based curriculum. It favours starting from defensible general aims of school education and seeing what these require in the shape of more specific aims. How far the result coincides with or diverges from a subject-based curriculum cannot be prejudged. This article also questions Hopkin's almost exclusive emphasis on knowledge aims and provides a historical perspective on this way of thinking about education and on its shortfalls. (Contains 2 notes.)
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- 2012
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16. Popular Culture, De-Centering Educators and Critical Dispositions
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Dimitriadis, Greg
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In this paper, I trace three traditions and bodies of work: The Chicago School of Sociology, the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies and the New Sociology of Education. Each of these traditions evolved in distinct though overlapping ways. Taken together, they offer a productive set of resources for thinking through the complexities of popular culture and education today. These traditions are of course not meant to be comprehensive or exhaustive. Rather, I approach them as pieces of "context" to evoke the work of Leslie Fiedler--ways of drawing circles around particular texts. The goal, as always, is to find the places where they cannot explain away the particularity of texts and practices in their "ambiguity and plentitude." I hope to encourage a particular kind of critical disposition towards popular texts. (Contains 1 note.)
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- 2012
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17. Critical Reflections on the Benefits of ICT in Education
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Livingstone, Sonia
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In both schools and homes, information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely seen as enhancing learning, this hope fuelling their rapid diffusion and adoption throughout developed societies. But they are not yet so embedded in the social practices of everyday life as to be taken for granted, with schools proving slower to change their lesson plans than they were to fit computers in the classroom. This article examines two possible explanations--first, that convincing evidence of improved learning outcomes remains surprisingly elusive, and second, the unresolved debate over whether ICT should be conceived of as supporting delivery of a traditional or a radically different vision of pedagogy based on soft skills and new digital literacies. The difficulty in establishing traditional benefits, and the uncertainty over pursuing alternative benefits, raises fundamental questions over whether society really desires a transformed, technologically-mediated relation between teacher and learner. (Contains 3 notes.)
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- 2012
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18. TLRP's Ten Principles for Effective Pedagogy: Rationale, Development, Evidence, Argument and Impact
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James, Mary and Pollard, Andrew
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The ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) worked for ten years to improve outcomes for learners across the United Kingdom. Individual projects within the Programme focused on different research questions and utilised a range of methods and theoretical resources. Across-programme thematic seminar series and task groups enabled emerging findings to be analysed, synthesised and communicated to wider audiences. One outcome of this activity was the development of ten "evidence-informed" principles, which engaged with diverse forms of evidence, whilst acknowledging that "users" would need to judge how best to implement such principles in their particular contexts. Synopses of these principles were published in posters and booklets, from 2006, but the evidence and reasoning underpinning them has not been fully explained. This contribution attempts to fill this gap. It provides a justification for the production of the TLRP principles and describes the iterative process by which they were developed. It clusters the ten principles in four broad areas that reflect the multilayered nature of innovation in pedagogy: (1) educational values and purposes; (2) curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; (3) personal and social processes and relationships; and (4) teachers and policies. It elaborates the argument and evidence for each principle, drawing not only on findings from projects but, crucially, the thematic initiatives that began the synthetic work. There is also an attempt, though by no means comprehensive, to relate TLRP insights to research and scholarship beyond the Programme's school-focused work in order to ground them in a wider literature: to work in other sectors of education; and to the broader literature that has accumulated internationally and over time. Finally, the five years since the principles were first published provides some evidence of impact. Although direct impact on learner outcomes cannot be measured, it is possible to provide an account of take-up by mediating agencies and others. The piece has been prepared as a contribution to international dialogue on effective teaching and learning and to provide a focus for scholarly comment, sharing of expertise and knowledge accumulation. (Contains 2 figures, 10 boxes, and 40 notes.)
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- 2011
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19. Contextual Factors and Effective School Improvement
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Sun, Hechuan, Creemers, Bert P. M., and de Jong, Rob
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This research provides policy-makers, researchers, and educators at all levels with a glimpse of the contextual influence on effective school improvement (ESI) in 8 European countries. What are the factors at the contextual level, particularly at the national level, which influence ESI? Are there any similarities or differences between the influences they exert on ESI in different countries? Can common traits be identified? These are the core questions this paper tries to explore. It has drawn on insights from 5 areas of research: school effectiveness; school improvement; curriculum; public choice (marketization); organization, organizational learning, and learning organization. This yields a "goal-pressure-support" conceptual framework accompanied by 10 contextual factors and 48 indicators. Given the original conceptual framework and the empirical support of 31 case studies contributed by 8 European countries, the findings of this study may have significant implications for policy, practice, school effectiveness, and school improvement. (Contain 1 figure and 2 tables.)
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- 2007
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20. Language in the Mathematics Classroom.
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Barwell, Richard
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MATHEMATICS education ,CURRICULUM ,DISCOURSE ,TEACHING methods ,MATHEMATICS teachers ,CLASSROOM dynamics - Abstract
Mathematics is a central part of school curricula around the world. There has been much interest in linguistic aspects of the teaching and learning of mathematics, both from mathematics educators and from applied linguists. This short paper introduces a set of five articles exploring the intersection between these two communities. The articles all discuss two texts: an extract from the guidance issued to primary school mathematics teachers in the UK; and an extract from a primary school mathematics lesson. This paper begins by summarising some of the research on language in the mathematics classroom, before introducing the two texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2005
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21. Curriculum capacity and citizenship education: a comparative analysis of four democracies.
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Hughes, Andrew S., Print, Murray, and Sears, Alan
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EDUCATION ,CITIZENSHIP ,CURRICULUM ,POLITICAL doctrines ,DEMOCRACY ,COMPARATIVE studies ,INSTRUCTIONAL systems - Abstract
Governments, international organizations and academics have, in recent decades, expressed a sense of crisis in the practice of democracy based largely upon increasing levels of disengagement by citizens from even the most basic elements of civic life. One response has been to devise civics and citizenship education curricula for schools with the concomitant expectations of enhanced civic practice. Our examination of citizenship education programs has revealed considerable variation from country to country in the degree of success achieved in the design, development and implementation of programs. This paper examines recent developments in citizenship education in four leading Western democracies - Australia, Canada, England and the USA; each one with its own particular successes and shortcomings. It identifies several factors associated with the successful building of curriculum capacity for citizenship education and argues that these are fundamental for countries wishing to move beyond rhetoric and toward substance in citizenship education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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22. Environmental education and the issue of nature.
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Bonnett, Michael
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ENVIRONMENTAL education ,EDUCATION ,ECOLOGY ,NATURE ,CURRICULUM ,CURRICULUM planning - Abstract
Much official environmental education policy in the UK and elsewhere makes scant reference to nature as such, and the issue of our underlying attitude towards it is rarely addressed. For the most part such policy is pre-occupied with the issue of meeting 'sustainably' what are taken to be present and future human needs. This paper considers several issues posed by this anthropocentric approach and explores the view that environmental education - indeed any education - worthy of the name needs to bring a range of searching questions concerning nature to the attention of learners, and to encourage them to develop their own on-going responses to those questions. It is argued that our present environmental predicament not only provides an exciting opportunity to re-focus education on the issue of human relationship to nature, but also requires the exploration of this issue for its long-term resolution. Extensive implications for the curriculum and the culture of the school are raised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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23. TLRP's ten principles for effective pedagogy: rationale, development, evidence, argument and impact.
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James, Mary and Pollard, Andrew
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EDUCATIONAL programs ,EFFECTIVE teaching ,EDUCATION research ,EDUCATIONAL technology ,THEMATIC approach in education ,OUTCOME-based education - Abstract
The ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) worked for ten years to improve outcomes for learners across the United Kingdom. Individual projects within the Programme focused on different research questions and utilised a range of methods and theoretical resources. Across-programme thematic seminar series and task groups enabled emerging findings to be analysed, synthesised and communicated to wider audiences. One outcome of this activity was the development of ten 'evidence-informed' principles, which engaged with diverse forms of evidence, whilst acknowledging that 'users' would need to judge how best to implement such principles in their particular contexts. Synopses of these principles were published in posters and booklets, from 2006, but the evidence and reasoning underpinning them has not been fully explained. This contribution attempts to fill this gap. It provides a justification for the production of the TLRP principles and describes the iterative process by which they were developed. It clusters the ten principles in four broad areas that reflect the multilayered nature of innovation in pedagogy: (1) educational values and purposes; (2) curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; (3) personal and social processes and relationships; and (4) teachers and policies. It elaborates the argument and evidence for each principle, drawing not only on findings from projects but, crucially, the thematic initiatives that began the synthetic work. There is also an attempt, though by no means comprehensive, to relate TLRP insights to research and scholarship beyond the Programme's school-focused work in order to ground them in a wider literature: to work in other sectors of education; and to the broader literature that has accumulated internationally and over time. Finally, the five years since the principles were first published provides some evidence of impact. Although direct impact on learner outcomes cannot be measured, it is possible to provide an account of take-up by mediating agencies and others. The piece has been prepared as a contribution to international dialogue on effective teaching and learning and to provide a focus for scholarly comment, sharing of expertise and knowledge accumulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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