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Os defensores de abordagens baseadas no mercado para a educação invocam, às vezes, a necessidade de "empoderamento" (empowerment) das comunidades nas tomadas de decisão educacionais para justificar a reforma dos sistemas educacionais públicos convencionais. Com base em exemplos da Austrália, da Inglaterra e do País de Gales, da Nova Zelândia e dos eua, este artigo explora as maneiras complexas e contraditórias como as políticas educacionais contemporâneas usam o conceito de envolvimento das comunidades. Ele demonstra mais ainda que o papel e o impacto do envolvimento das comunidades nas escolas nada têm de simples. O artigo conclui que, se o envolvimento das comunidades quer ter efeitos progressistas, ele deve ser articulado com uma política de educação democrática mais ampla.The proponents of market-based approaches to education have sometimes invoked the need for community empowerment in educational decision-making to justify the reform of conventional state educational systems. Drawing upon examples from Australia, England and Wales, New Zealand and the usa, this paper explores the complex and contradictory ways in which the concept of community involvement is used in contemporary education policy. It further demonstrates that the role and impact of community involvement in schools are by no means straightforward. The paper concludes that, if community involvement is to be progressive in its effects, it will need to be articulated with a broader democratic politics of education.

Highlights • Constitutional freedom of education affects democratic citizenship education policy. • Citizenship education legislation in 2006 and 2007 placed little demands on schools. • Legislation introduced in 2021 has further specified what is expected from schools. • Studies of citizenship education in practice are largely critical of the extent to which schools teach about, through and for democracy. Purpose: This paper discusses developments in citizenship education policy and practice in the Netherlands, and outlines key challenges as faced by the different stakeholders involved. Design/methodology/approach: Our discussion is based on existing research and policy documents in the Netherlands. The authors, from three Dutch universities, are experts in the field of research on citizenship education. Findings: Promoting citizenship education in primary, secondary and vocational tertiary education in the Netherlands has been challenging, particularly in light of the constitutional freedom of education in the Netherlands. Five issues are discussed in this regard: the contents of CE legislation, the normative character of legal requirements, integration of CE legislation in national curriculum aims, clarifying expectations from schools in teaching CE, and teacher education and professionalization.

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Previous research has illustrated that advocacy organizations play a crucial role in education policy networks by communicating educational reform agendas to public and private stakeholders. In the United States, an inter-state consortium of these advocacy organizations has formed their own network. The Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) network is a formal, centrally coordinated policy network that connects state-level advocacy organizations to one another and to national advocacy organizations, think tanks, and philanthropic foundations. Despite more than doubling in size since 2016, little is known about the policy preferences of PIE members. In this paper, we use social network analysis to identify and describe the ideological dimensions of advocacy that structure the PIE Network and to examine how these ideological dimensions have changed as the network has expanded. We find that the central areas of emphasis among these organizations have coalesced around neoliberal ideologies that promote accountability and standards. However, there is an underlying tension within the network that unfolds along two dimensions. On the one hand, preferences for choice and autonomy (e.g., charters, general choice, and autonomy & deregulation) are contrasted to those favoring equitable funding for low-income schools and early childhood education. On the other hand, members emphasize policies involving factors internal to schools (student interventions, leadership standards and accountability) to those external to schools (e.g., familial support, funding-based equity). These tensions within the network have grown more pronounced over time as the network has expanded to include new members with a more ideological narrow set of market-based policy preferences.

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International studies indicate that one of the biggest problems that educational policy in the majority of post-communities countries must confront is the very strong influence that social background has on the study results of students, their educational aspirations, and consequently even their chances of continuing in studies upon completion of secondary school. This paper addresses the causes behind the high degree of social selectivity in Czech basic and secondary school. The authors devote particular attention to the role of multi-year gymnasia, whose existence is often substantiated by the argument that there is a need to offer a special approach to the education of gifted children, regardless of their social background. This interpretation is countered by the viewpoint that actually the multi-year gymnasia merely bring about the early selection of students who are from families with higher levels of education and social status, and who - often owing to the direct influence of the parents - even at an early age aspire to attain a higher education. The results of the analyses of data from the PISA 2000 project appear to bear out the second interpretation and support the initial hypothesis that multi-year gymnasia are a very socially selective element in the Czech education system. The analyses genuinely confirm that multi-year gymnasia represent one of the main sources of variance between schools in tests of reading skills, and are so almost exclusively owing to their high social selectivity. At the same time, the analyses also confirmed that the educational aspirations of students at multi-year gymnasia are much higher than those of students at other schools, and that this is especially true for the group of students who obtained poorer results on the tests of reading skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of a project designed to develop a methodology to aid policy decision making in statewide medical education systems. The methodology requires the development of quantitative models that project the state's future investment in medical education, as well as the effects of potential policy proposals on the costs of medical education, on state costs, and on physician manpower supply. To build these models, we collected and analyzed extensive data from one statewide medical education system. We discuss the development of our methodology, its application in the strategic planning by the state's educational leaders, its significance in the policy formulation process, and we offer guidelines for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to understand the debate about what constitutes good education in the Netherlands. The meaning of the concept of democracy in these public debates is divergent and rather diffuse. If teachers, citizens, advisory councils, and the Dutch government agree that democracy ought to be anchored in future education, we first and foremost need to understand its meaning within these current debates. Approach: In this study we conducted a frame analysis of eleven key documents from three relevant domains. The diagnostic frame shows that on the whole the authors of these documents view ‘neoliberalism’ and a ‘culture of measurement’ as undermining forces in education. Findings: The prognostic frame shows that all authors frame democracy as a prognosis, but with four different meanings: 1) democracy as organizational structure, 2) democracy as governmental policy, 2) democracy as knowledge and skill, and 4) democracy as a practice. We argue that these can be interpreted as four dimensions of a democratic solution, constructed as a response to neoliberal tendencies in Dutch education

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Presently, many issues question the capacity of Québec’s educational institutions to wholly fulfill their social mission. Those challenges include a relatively high school dropout rate, a low literacy level among the adult population, and a constant increase in the number of students with disabilities, social maladjustments or learning difficulties. Sustaining adolescents’ academic motivation is a concern relating to each of the mentioned issues affecting Québec’s high schools nowadays. This paper addresses the following question: how can school agents and educational policies best support the adolescents’ motivation in school? To answer this question, I use the theoretical framework of the self-determination theory (SDT), a macrotheory of the human motivation which stipulates that the respect of basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) nourish students’ intrinsic motivation, to analyze a research-based intervention program that aim to enhance students’ academic motivation, and Québec Education Program (QEP) recommendations on this point. The conclusions of this article invites scholars and governments to investigate educational models prioritizing the fulfillment of the youths’ basic psychological needs according to SDT.

This paper discusses results from a small scale qualitative study of howprimary and secondary schools in three English local authorities respondedto the introduction and subsequent inspection of a legal duty to promotecommunity cohesion, following a series of ‘race’ riots in 2001 and theLondon bombings of 2005. The policy itself is seen as reflecting widerdiscourse and is shown as shifting in focus during the period it wasofficially inspected between 2008 and 2011. Schools respondeddifferentially to the duty and its inspection, with those in more multiculturalareas responding with higher degrees of confidence than those inmono-ethnic areas. Some policy ‘slippage’ is seen to occur in the wayschools re-framed the duty. Over time, most schools came to identify thecurriculum and the school’s ethos as the most important weapons in theirarmoury. Teachers embraced the new duty with different degrees ofenthusiasm – for some it confirmed the importance of holistic approachesto education which they felt had been sidelined in recent years, whilst othershowed various forms of resistance. Teachers encountered some subtle andchallenging professional dilemmas in the course of discharging the duty.Overall, the respondents in this study felt that the imposition of the dutyand its inspection had been more of a benefit than a burden.

In this paper the authors discuss preliminary findings from research on language learning identities of ethnic minority groups for education policy formulation. The research aims to identify and interpret changing language identities, preferences, modes of learning, and discourse affected by the transformation of the economic, social, and cultural environment of Macau since the territory was designated as a Special Administrative Region (S.A.R.) following the return of sovereignty from Portugal to China in 1999. The research is particularly concerned with identifying the perceptions held by ethnic minorities of the determinants for achievement and success in an education system polarized by language preference and priority. The case of the cross-cultural identity of the ‘Macanese’ is presented as a preliminary study to inform education policy and advocate further research on ethnic minorities in Macau.

Este artigo avalia o Plano Nacional de Educação (PNE) em vigor, a lógica política de sua tramitação e sua aprovação pelo Congresso Nacional, ressaltando as concepções de educação e de Estado em disputa, os seus limites estruturais e conjunturais como política pública, bem como os contornos assumidos no enfrentamento das questões da educação básica e superior. Apresenta, ainda, reflexões e indicações sobre a temática, e enfatiza a necessidade histórica da proposição e construção coletiva do novo PNE (2011-2020), a fim de que se constitua uma efetiva política de Estado para a educação.This paper assesses the current National Plan for Education (NPE), the political logic of its progress and its approval by the National Congress. It emphasizes the conceptions of education and of State in dispute, its structural and short-term limits as a public policy, as well as the outlines referring to basic and higher education. It also presents reflections and indications on this theme and highlights the historical need for the proposition and collective construction of the new 2011-2020 NPE, so that it constitutes an effective state policy for education.

This paper aims to analyze the expansion of courses in Social Work in times of the counter-reform of the Brazilian university education, through a description of the expansion of the courses in Social Work in the post-1990, in the presence and distance modalities. Then it examines the possible impacts of the counter-reform of university education in training in Social Work, problematizing the impact of the ongoing process to quality training and professional profile advocated by the Guidelines Curriculum of the Brazilian Association of Education and Research in Social Work (AERSS).

The teaching of foreign languages in education systems responds to considerations that generally eschew any systematic examination of the overall goals pursued. Most of the time, an implicit assumption appears to be made to the effect that a given foreign language « must » be part of the curriculum. At best, some passing reference is made to the labour market or cultural value of the language concerned. The recent introduction of English (in 2000) as a compulsory subject for all pupils in the Geneva education system offers a possibility to investigate at closer range the motivations of different groups of actors. This reform was evaluated in 2004 through a survey of all students in their last year of compulsory schooling (age 15). In this paper, we analyse their motivations, attitudes and representations. Results indicate that if students are asked to give their opinion on nuanced statements regarding the role of various foreign languages, they are perfectly capable of making complex and balanced judgements about them, which are sometimes quite different from the clichés found in the media about the value of particular languages.

O artigo apresenta modelo explicativo que discute o potencial de formação dos processos de coordenação e controle disputados pelo Estado e setores constituintes da educação superior no Brasil (os setores federal e o privado). A tese central é a de que a reestruturação do campo de ensino superior proposta pelos governos Fernando Henrique Cardoso redefine o potencial e os mecanismos de coordenação e controle das principais forças sociopolíticas e institucionais que constituem e/ou agem fortemente sobre as atividades e os destinos da educação superior no Brasil. À luz da análise empreendida, conclui-se propondo o modelo da "Metáfora da Flutuação", que representa uma revisão do "Triângulo da Coordenação" de Clark (1983), e destaca-se que a política de reforma oficial implicou o fortalecimento do potencial de coordenação e regulação do Estado, ao mesmo tempo que aumentou o poder de coordenação do mercado e diminui a força coordenadora da comunidade acadêmica.This paper presents an explanatory model that discusses the potential of the coordination and control processes that became a bone of contention between the Federal State and public (Federal) and private sectors of higher education, in Brazil. Its main thesis is that the restructuring of higher education advocated by the two successive Fernando Henrique Cardoso's administrations (1995-2002) redefined both the potential and mechanisms of co-ordination and control of the main sociopolitical and institutional forces that constitute, and/or strongly impact on, the activities and destiny of higher education. In light of this analysis, it concludes proposing the Fluctuation Metaphor Model, which is a revision of Clark's Triangle of Coordination (1983), and highlighting that the higher education reform strengthened both the coordination and regulation potential of the State and the coordination power of the market while it weakened the coordinating strength of the academic community.

O artigo analisa a política de avaliação implantada pelo Ministério da Educação a partir de 1995, que se materializa por intermédio do Exame Nacional de Cursos (ENC) e da Avaliação das Condições de Oferta de Cursos de Graduação. Argumenta-se que uma política de avaliação não deve caracterizar-se apenas pela contribuição que pode oferecer ao entendimento das características específicas de procedimentos avaliativos, mas deve, sobretudo, distinguir-se pela contribuição à compreensão crítica dos impactos e usos da avaliação e dos seus resultados como instrumento de exercício (e disputa) do poder no campo educacional. Dessa forma, é argumentado que uma política de avaliação nunca é destituída de vínculos estratégicos com a organização do sistema de ensino, com a sua dinâmica funcional e, igualmente, com os objetivos principais do projeto político para a área de educação que o grupo no poder busca realizar. Este é o caso da atual política de avaliação para o ensino superior brasileiro, que, por um lado, desempenha papel central na lógica organizativo-funcional do atual sistema de educação superior e, por outro, tornou-se o instrumento por excelência da política oficial para promover a massificação da educação superior via financiamento privado e desenvolver um moderno mercado da educação superior no Brasil.This paper analyses the assessment policy the Department of Education (MEC) implemented in Brazil since 1995. Such policies comprise the Exame Nacional de Cursos (Brazilian Examination of Courses) and the Avaliação das Condições de Oferta dos Cursos de Graduação (Assessment of Adequacy of Conditions for Undergraduate Course Provision). It argues that an assessment policy should not merely be characterised by the contributions it can offer to understand specific evaluation procedures. It should, above all, distinguish itself by contributing to critically understand the impacts and uses of assessment and its outcomes as an instrument of power to stimulate competition within the education field. It is also argued that an assessment policy always maintains strategic links to the organisation of teaching system and its functional dynamic as well as to the main purposes of the political project for the field of education aimed by the group in power. This is the case of the current assessment policy for higher education in Brazil, which, on the one hand, performs a central role in the organisational and functioning logic of the higher education system and, on the other, has already become the most effective instrument used by the government to promote both massification of higher education via private funding and the development of a modern market of higher education in Brazil.

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