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On equity in education again : an international comparison
1985
This article proposes an approach to answering two questions: first, does investment in education help growth; second, does the allocation of investment in education matter? I develop a model where individual ability is heterogeneous and education both ...
Physiotherapy students’ conceptions of skill at the beginning of their Bachelor studies
2015
Skills have recently received widespread attention in education policy documents and discussions. This article reports the results of research on Bachelor’s degree physiotherapy students’ conceptions of skill at the beginning of their studies. The aim of the present study was to examine how beginning students understand skill, and the focus was on conceptions of skill in general rather than on any particular skills. The participants of the study were 35 physiotherapy students. The data were gathered within the first two weeks of their university studies. Specifically, requested essays written by the students were analyzed using the phenomenographic approach. The data-driven analysis yielded…
Finland: Changing Operational Environment Changing Finnish Educational Governance
2020
The main purpose of this chapter is to examine how Finland is developing its educational governance to meet the challenges of its changing operational environment. For our examination, we applied two theoretical frameworks on education policy development. The one constructed in the Comparative Analysis of Dynamics in Education Politics Project (CADEP) by Simola, Kauko, Varjo, Kalalahti and Sahlstrom (Dynamics in education politics. Understanding and explaining the Finnish case. Routledge, Oxon and New York, 2017) provided us with the theoretical lenses of political situations, political possibilities and politicking, as well as with valuable contextual information. The one for the Policy En…
Data and Methods: A Conceptual Approach to Intercultural Dialogue
2020
In this chapter, we discuss the constructivist perspective on concepts and explain how we utilize this in our analysis of concepts used by the Council of Europe and the European Union in their education policy documents. In this perspective, political language and administrative documents not only describe the reality of administrated issues but also participate in their construction and meaning-making. The authors emphasize the performativity of language and discuss its significance for political rhetoric. Besides the theoretical and methodological frameworks, we describe the data and elaborate on the genre of education policy documents. We also provide an overview of the development, cont…
Flexible Subjects: Educational Policy Neoliberal Rationalities
2005
Flexible Subjects: Neo-liberal Rationalities and Education Policy. This article aims to examine training and employment programmes for the young (more specifically, the Spanish Social Guarantee Schemes—Programas de Garantía Social) in relation to neoliberal political rationalities. We believe the introduction of neoliberal policies to have been greater and faster precisely in the periphery of the educational system. To that end, we intend to make teachers' participation in the operation of the policies conceptually visible. The professionals’ discourse about the socio-labour integration of the young –a discourse that legitimises their daily work – will be analysed on the basis of qualitativ…
Tools for education : policy analysis
2003
03125http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2003/06/06/000094946_03052904033567/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf; This hands-on, interactive guide to evaluating and revamping education policy is designed to help policymakers in low-income countries identify weakness and make the most efficient use of scarce education resources. Education specialist in the developed world will also find this guide to be an invaluable tool for analyzing priorities and arriving at cost-effective solutions. The out-growth of training workshops held at the World Bank, this book and CD-ROM present relevant policy problems and engage the user in a search for effective education-service delivery o…
La régulation par les résultats : pourquoi est-ce si choquant ?
2003
03024http://perso.wanadoo.fr/afae/revue/articles/98.pdf; La plupart des pays développés se sont engagés de façon plus résolue que la France dans une régulation fondée sur les résultats. On présentera ici rapidement la régulation par les résultats telle qu'elle se pratique au Royaume-Uni, certainement le pays qui s'est engagé de la façon la plus systématique dans cette voie, puis on présentera la régulation française, fondée davantage sur les processus. Un examen des contradictions de cette régulation, une comparaison de l'efficacité et de l'équité des systèmes éducatifs français et britannique, font penser qu'il importe de comprendre ce qui retient notre système éducatif de s'engager dans u…
L'école à La Réunion -approches plurielles
2005
05024; Le devenir du système éducatif à La Réunion constitue un défi important et complexe, qui nécessite une pluralité d'approches. L'ouvrage commence par une étude sur le développement de la scolarisation dans l'île, incluant les évolutions les plus récentes. Vient ensuite une analyse quantitative des déterminants de la réussite et de l'échec scolaires en comparaison avec ceux de la métropole.
L'échec scolaire : rouages sociaux, politiques possibles
2003
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Évaluation, concertation, et processus de décision
2003
The author outlines the theoretical and sociological considerations influencing the decision-making cycle for the French education ministry. He makes the case that education policy has been guided by ideological and political considerations rather than by scientific evidence and evaluation-based processes. He calls for widespread use of external appraisals involving the concerned actors.