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The Influence of Overseas Examples on DES Policy-Making for the School System in England, 1985-1995
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Smith, George; Exley, Sonia – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
Claims are often made in British education about the extent to which policy reforms have been "borrowed" from overseas. Based on interviews with senior civil servants and HMI, this paper addresses the extent to which such claims apply to central government educational policy-making at school level in England between 1985 and 1995. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Districts, Public Schools, Interviews
What's in a Vision? Introducing an Organisational Learning Strategy in a Local Authority's Education Service
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Reeves, Jenny; Boreham, Nick – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
It is frequently asserted that schools and local authorities should become "learning organisations" as a pre-condition for school improvement, but there is very little evidence about the specific processes and activities involved in such a transformation. This paper analyses the initial stages of the implementation by a Scottish local…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Learning Strategies, Organizational Development, Program Implementation
Education and Politics: The Education Policy of the German Social Democratic Party, 1906-1922
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Wilson, Ian C. – Oxford Review of Education, 1977
Description of the German education system in early 1900s and its criticism by the political Social Democratic Party, based on fear that education would reflect Germany's government and society. (ND)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, European History