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Locke, Terry; Riley, David – Educational Action Research, 2009
In "The Educational Imagination," Elliot Eisner presents a theory of educational criticism and a form of qualitative research in education. Central to his theory is the notion of the connoisseur, a particular kind of observer who, on the basis of certain qualities, can be trusted to write an incisive and illuminating account of an…
Descriptors: Criticism, Theories, Qualitative Research, Educational Research
Young, Michael – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
This article offers a critical analysis of recent trends in educational policy with particular reference to their assumptions about the knowledge society. It examines the implications of the analysis for the issue of elitism and the promotion of greater educational equality. The article concludes by offering an alternative approach to educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Criticism, Educational Trends
Looney, Janet W. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
Do some forms of student (and school) assessment hinder the introduction of innovative educational practices and the development of innovation skills in education systems? This report focuses on the impact of high-stake summative assessment on innovation and argues that it is possible to reconcile high-stakes assessments and examinations through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Summative Evaluation
Piggot-Irvine, Eileen – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
Independent reviewer evaluations of the Ministry of Education (MoE) funded Principal Professional Learning Community (PPLC) programme for experienced principals in New Zealand (NZ) suggest a highly valued and strongly supportive programme. My own critique of the programme, against criteria for "strong" professional learning communities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Interprofessional Relationship, Professional Development
Zepke, Nick; Leach, Linda – Quality in Higher Education, 2007
Improving retention rates in post-school education has become a focus for policy-makers and researchers throughout the western world. Without doubt, any measure that helps students wishing to succeed in higher education is valuable. However, the dominance retention has achieved on a wide variety of educational fronts ranging from policy to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Accountability
Openshaw, Roger; Rata, Elizabeth – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
Considerable problems have arisen in New Zealand universities as a consequence of the conflict between the statutory role of the university as the "critic and conscience of society" and the dominant intellectual orthodoxy of cultural essentialism. A number of examples are used to show the extent to which culturalist ideological…
Descriptors: Educational History, Criticism, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries

Harre, David; Boshier, Roger – New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning, 1999
Describes how 12 socioeconomically excluded young adults restored a New Zealand social activist's home using a process related to service learning but enhanced with critical analysis of society. Compares the process to service learning in terms of organizational setting, social class, governance, level of abstraction, conceptual and reflective…
Descriptors: Criticism, Cultural Maintenance, Economically Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Constructing a Long Spoon for Comparative Education: Charting the Career of the "New Zealand Model."

Dale, Roger – Comparative Education, 2001
Examines the local conditions that enabled the development and installation of the New Zealand model of neoliberalism and new public management, characteristics that made it desirable and that would allow its incorporation at a global level, and how implementation was accomplished. Draws implications for the relationship between comparative…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Criticism, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Stanley, Peter – Kairaranga, 2006
This is the first of two articles that provide a critique of categorisation and of the biomedical interpretation of personal adjustment issues experienced by children and youth. In this paper the appraisal is made by the devising of an imaginary mental illness, through the presentation of some important theoretical frameworks, by considering…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Policy Analysis, Student Adjustment, Adjustment (to Environment)

Guthrie, John T. – Journal of Reading, 1980
By classifying questions asked into categories of form, content, and affect, this analysis interprets Alan Purves' 1979 reanalysis of student responses to literature in a 1973 study. Notes that students emphasized form when viewing literature in the abstract, but that they looked at individual stories in terms of content and affect. (MKM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Critical Reading, Foreign Countries, Literary Criticism
Stanley, Peter – Kairaranga, 2006
This is the second of two papers providing a critique of categorisation and of the biomedical interpretation of personal adjustment issues experienced by children and youth. Whereas the first paper (Stanley, 2006; published in "Kairaranga" earlier this year) appraised this approach from an array of theoretical vantage points, this paper…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Adjustment (to Environment), Classification, Behavior Problems
Gunter, Helen; Rayner, Steve; Thomas, Hywel; Fielding, Antony; Butt, Graham; Lance, Ann – Management in Education, 2004
load has been highlighted by recent studies, including work for the DfES by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC 2001) and by the Office for Manpower Economics (OME) for the School Teachers' Review Body (DfES 2000). The PwC report concluded that teachers and headteachers work more intensive weeks than other comparable managers and professionals. This heavy…
Descriptors: Criticism, Foreign Countries, Teachers, Instructional Leadership

Jackson, Steven J. – Journal of Experiential Education, 1993
Describes a college course on the sociology of sport, in which students reflect on their own experiences and practices in sport, engage in critical analysis of the taken-for-granted values and assumptions associated with sport, and do construct analysis and deconstruction of televised sport as it promotes certain interests and marginalizes others.…
Descriptors: Athletics, Course Content, Critical Viewing, Criticism

Blackmore, Jill – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1999
Presents a feminist analysis of how decentralized decision-making policies are reflected at the local level in four countries: Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, and Israel. These examples indicate that management practices tend to be more modernist than postmodernist, and often have highly inequitable effects for female teachers. Contains 63…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Feminist Criticism
Jernudd, Bjorn H. – 1971
This paper provides a review of "English Transported: Essays on Australasian English," edited by W. S. Ramson. The book is a collection of articles on the various types of English spoken mainly in Australia and New Zealand. Articles discuss such varieties as nineteenth and twentieth century Australian English, New Zealand English, Pidgin…
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Book Reviews, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies