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Chris Percy; Tristram Hooley – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Return on investment (ROI) has become part of the policymaking toolkit, particularly pertinent for activities like school-based career guidance deemed optional by some policymakers. There are institutions supporting ideal ROI methods alongside an academic critique, but little research on how ROI has been applied in practice in a guidance setting.…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Outcomes of Education
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David Mandzuk; Kurt Clausen; Shirley Van Nuland – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
Initial teacher education (ITE) has changed dramatically over the past 50 years but some of the same issues persist in Canada and around the world. This article begins with an overview of how teacher education has evolved in Canada with a particular emphasis on the past 50 years. It recounts the gradual rise of professionalisation as teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Teacher Education, Teacher Certification
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Glenys Mann; Suzanne Carrington; Carly Lassig; Sofia Mavropoulou; Beth Saggers; Shiralee Poed; Callula Killingly – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Many countries grapple with the tension between commitment to inclusive education reform and the closure of special schools. This tension is particularly problematic for countries, like Australia, that have ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The CRPD is clear that closing special schools is pivotal to…
Descriptors: School Closing, Special Schools, Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities
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Miller, Tess; Yan, Yan – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine patterns and factors influencing exclusion rates and achievement on large-scale assessments in Canada. Data analysis employed a case study to examine policies and practices of exclusion, absenteeism, and social promotion related to large-scale assessments at the international, national, and provincial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students, Attendance Patterns, Social Promotion
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Jackson, Jeff; Priest, Simon; Ritchie, Stephan – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2023
The recent criminal negligence case against an Ontario teacher in the death of a student identified pertinent outdoor education administration and policy issues. This comparative case study examined this case and two additional high profile Canadian outdoor education fatalities, identifying common factors and issues. Using Accimaps to illustrate…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Death, Foreign Countries, Risk
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Ghofran Alyass – Educational Planning, 2024
Institutional practices related to providing academic accommodations and access have long been ableist and bureaucratic and remain that way. This paper will focus on these practices in the post-secondary education context. The central question of this paper is: What do meaningful access and reasonable accommodation mean to post-secondary students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Higher Education, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
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Matthew Falconer – Written Communication, 2024
Governments the world over require scientific knowledge to inform policy makers' decision-making processes. The recontextualization of this information for nonscientific audiences has received much attention, though it has primarily focused on publicly available texts. Little is known about the discursive nature of how science is transformed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Fiona A. E. McQuarrie – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2024
The purpose of this report is to examine and compare course outlines at BC Transfer System member institutions, and to provide recommendations for course outline content and format to facilitate request for transfer credit. This project examined course outlines and/or syllabi from 36 BC Transfer System member institutions, along with each…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Transfer Policy, Educational Policy, Institutional Cooperation
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Whitney M. Hegseth – American Journal of Education, 2024
Purpose: In the wake of interlocking pandemics, educational systems are resetting in important ways, pursuing aims that are not exclusively instructional (e.g., social justice, well-being). As systems (re)build, they may vary in how they manage their institutional and policy environments, which may or may not be reorienting toward these same…
Descriptors: Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Objectives
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Buckner, Elizabeth; Zhang, You; Blanco, Gerardo L. – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
Both Canada and the United States enrol a significant number of international students. However, in March 2020, both countries closed their borders and increased restrictions to international travel due to COVID-19, which had a direct impact on international students' ability to travel between their home countries and study destinations. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Buzzelli, Michael; Songsore, Emmanuel – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2022
This paper is concerned with long term strategic planning in higher education and focuses on Ontario's strategic mandate agreement (SMA) sector planning framework. In 2012, the province initiated its new SMA planning process by requiring all higher education institutions to propose their own strategies for their academic visions, missions, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning, Higher Education
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Ross, Brian M.; Cameron, Erin – Higher Education Studies, 2021
Socially Accountable Medical Education is a global educational movement transforming the development and delivery of medical schools in higher education. It is described as an upstream policy approach that seeks to align medical education and local community healthcare needs. To better understand social accountability as a policy initiative, we…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Accountability, Educational Policy, Social Justice
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Thériault, Virginie; Mercier, Jean-Pierre – Ethnography and Education, 2023
This article explores the ethical dilemmas encountered by two ethnographers in adult education research in a context where neoliberalism impacts on education settings, policies, and social justice. Everyday ethical dilemmas arise in thorny situations in which the general ethical principles ethnographers are regulated by cannot help them react or…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Ethics, Adult Education, Researchers
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Field, Ellen; Spiropoulos, Gia; Nguyen, Anh Thu; Grewal, Rupinder Kaur – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2023
This paper reports on curriculum analysis of climate change expectations in Canada's provincial curricula. The research is focused on curriculum policy in Canadian provinces; however, it pertains to an international audience as Article 12 of the Paris Agreement, the international treaty on climate mitigation, adaptation and finance, calls for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Curriculum Evaluation
Jungblut, Jens, Ed.; Maltais, Martin, Ed.; Ness, Erik C., Ed.; Rexe, Deanna, Ed. – Higher Education Dynamics, 2023
This volume provides an overview of the state of the art of research on the politics of higher education policy in Canada, the US, and Western Europe. Each thematic chapter combines an extensive literature review with original empirical work that further advances our understanding of policymaking dynamics in higher education. The book covers five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Higher Education, Politics of Education
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