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School Autonomy and the Surveillance of Teachers
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Skerritt, Craig – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
A significant paradox of school autonomy is that it tends to constrain the autonomy of teachers, instead subjecting them to the increased controlling of their work, heightened monitoring, and greater accountability. This paper draws on interview data to show how teachers in accountability-driven and business-like schools face three different but…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Professional Autonomy, Accountability, Observation
Changes and Challenges in School-Age Childcare in Copenhagen
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Moloney, Mary; Pope, Jennifer – Education 3-13, 2020
The social pedagogic tradition has been integral to the culture of early childhood education including School Age Childcare (SAC) in Denmark for decades. Drawing upon interviews with multiple stakeholders: lecturers, representatives of an Education Research Institute, union activists an SAC provider and a policy maker, in Copenhagen, Denmark, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Educational Change, Unions
Making an Impact: New Directions for Arts and Humanities Research
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Hazelkorn, Ellen – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
The severity of the global economic crisis has put the spotlight firmly on measuring academic and research performance and productivity and assessing its contribution, value, impact and benefit. While, traditionally, research output and impact were measured by peer-publications and citations, there is increased emphasis on a "market-driven…
Descriptors: Art, Humanities, Research, Value Judgment
Considerations of the Impact of Neoliberalism and Alternative Regimes on Learning and Its Outcomes: An Empirical Example Based on the Level and Distribution of Adult Learning
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Desjardins, Richard – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2013
This study considers the extensive critique of the impact of the "market" or "neoliberal" model on learning and its outcomes in the light of alternative models. The purpose is to consider the potential impacts of the market on learning and its outcomes and to contextualise critique by considering alternative coordination…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Commercialization, Politics of Education, Global Approach
Policy over Procedure: A Look at the School Completion Programme in Ireland. Is This State Led Educational Intervention for Disadvantaged Children Merely Philanthropic and Can Current Global and National Neo Liberal Policy Trends in Education Be Overcome?
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McKenna, Declan – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
"An overview of contemporary curriculum discourse shows a worrying drift to the technical; in current curriculum debates, technique is winning out over substance, procedure over principles" (Looney 2001, p.149). As a project worker in the School Completion Programme in Ireland I ask what and who education is for and look at to whom and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Program Effectiveness, Neoliberalism
Local Structures in Adult Education: A Discussion Paper.
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Irish National Association of Adult Education, Dublin. – 2002
In January 2002, Ireland's minister of state announced the establishment of the National Adult Learning Council to take effect in March 2002. One of the council's priorities will be to establish local adult learning boards (LALBs) to oversee development and delivery of adult education. An Irish government white paper recommended that LALBs'…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Advisory Committees