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Turchi, Antonella; Greco, Serena; Morini, Elettra; Nencioni, Paola – Research on Education and Media, 2023
Schools are a complex system made up of not only relationships, infrastructures, and challenges, but also constraints. It seems essential that schools, as complex organizations, work in synergy, according to a shared vision with all the actors involved in the educational process. School management is now part of a process that is increasingly…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Leadership, Governance, Foreign Countries
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Laura Mentini; Antonina Levatino – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
The widespread adoption of school autonomy with accountability reforms in education has generated debate regarding the relationship between autonomy, innovation and accountability. While at the policy design level, these three elements are highly related, several authors highlight the contradictions among them. By analyzing key documents and…
Descriptors: Models, Accountability, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Innovation
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Barbato, Giovanni; Moscati, Roberto; Turri, Matteo – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2019
University teaching is under pressure to evolve in line with the social, cultural and economic changes of modern society. This process inevitably affects the professional profile of academics since it creates an increasing tension between the traditional modes of teaching and the learning styles and professional expectations of students. This…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Role, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Serafina Pastore – Cogent Education, 2024
The interest in formative assessment, which is highly valued in current conceptualisations of teacher assessment literacy, has led to a renewed focus on initial teacher education (ITE) programmes, as well as on the assessment education domain. The conceptual understanding of the theory and practice of formative assessment has been long advocated…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Alignment (Education)
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Sunet Grobler; Ann-Kathrin Dittrich – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2024
Purpose: The explanatory study aimed to understand the global perspective of quality education and describe transformative strategies that empower teacher educators and equip the education system and future teachers to act as change agents by fostering learning processes that support students towards a sustainable future.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Sustainability, Environmental Education, Objectives
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Peruzzo, Francesca; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Arienzo, Alessandro; D'Onofrio, Giuseppe; Franchi, Claudio; Sebastianelli, Pietro – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
This article focuses on the relation between new public management (NPM) reforms and changing patterns of industrial relations (IRs) and social dialogue in the Italian education system. Drawing on data from the research project 'Social dialogue and industrial relations in education: The challenges of multi-level governance and privatisation in…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Administrative Organization, Governance, Privatization
OECD Publishing, 2021
Widespread school closures affected over one billion students during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vocational education and training (VET) sector has faced particular challenges during the crisis, most notably the fact that the digital learning environments that most education institutions had to rely on during closures don't work…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Vocational Education, School Closing
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Cavioni, Valeria; Grazzani, Ilaria; Ornaghi, Veronica; Agliati, Alessia; Gandellini, Sabina; Cefai, Carmel; Camilleri, Liberato; Bartolo, Paul; Tatalovic Vorkapic, Sanja; Golob, Lana; Poulou, Maria; Martinsone, Baiba; Supe, Inga; Simões, Celeste; Lebre, Paula; Colomeischi, Adina; Rusu, Petruta; Acostoaie, Lidia; Vintur, Tatiana; Conte, Elisabetta – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
In the last two years, a growing number of studies have focused on the promotion of students' mental health to address the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, less studies have been conducted on sustaining teachers' mental health which has been affected by the sudden changes in online teaching and the difficulties in keeping and…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Promotion, Teacher Student Relationship, Stress Variables
Crosier, David; Birch, Peter; Davydovskaia, Olga; Kocanova, Daniela; Parveva, Teodora – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2017
This report aims to provide insight into the realities faced by higher education academic staff at a time of fast-moving change and increasing societal demand. Fluctuating student numbers, new funding and steering mechanisms are among the features of today's European higher education landscape, but not enough is known about how academic staff are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Guccio, Calogero; Martorana, Marco Ferdinando; Mazza, Isidoro – Tertiary Education and Management, 2017
The paper assesses the evolution of efficiency of Italian public universities for the period 2000-2010. It aims at investigating whether their levels of efficiency showed signs of convergence, and if the well-known disparity between northern and southern regions decreased. For this purpose, we use a refinement of data envelopment analysis, namely…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Educational Change, Reputation, College Administration
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Lumino, Rosaria; Gambardella, Dora; Grimaldi, Emiliano – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2017
This article explores how new public management policy ideas and technologies circulating in the globalised education space have been re-contextualised in the re-design of the Italian Higher Education System. In doing so, it uses the governmentality studies as a sensitising framework to problematise what we term here as the "calculative and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Ethics, Risk
Carretero, Stephanie; Mägi, Eve; Bessios, Antonis; Napierala, Joanna; Gonzalez-Vazquez, Ignacio; Triquet, Karen; Montanari, Marco; Lombaerts, Koen; Ranieri, Maria; Pugacewicz, Agnieszka; Robledo-Bottcher, Nicolas – European Commission, 2021
The unprecedented shift to remote schooling introduced in many countries in the spring of 2020 as one of the preventive measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 gave us the opportunity not only to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of remote schooling, but also to reflect on how education is being provided in general. We interviewed in total…
Descriptors: Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Cross Cultural Studies
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Sangster, Alan, Ed.; Stoner, Greg, Ed.; Flood, Barbara, Ed. – Accounting Education, 2020
This paper presents a compilation of personal reflections from 66 contributors on the impact of, and responses to, COVID-19 in accounting education in 45 different countries around the world. It reveals a commonality of issues, and a variability in responses, many positive outcomes, including the creation of opportunities to realign learning and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Serpieri, Roberto; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Vatrella, Sandra – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
This article focuses on the increasing centrality assumed by non-educational consultants in the processes of policy design and knowledge production about education in Italy. We identify the recent establishment of the National School Evaluation System as a key policy trajectory and we focus on the case of the last policies to evaluate Italian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Evaluation, Governance, Educational Policy
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Mariuzzo, Andrea – History of Education, 2016
This paper, largely based on new, previously unused documents from US archives, considers the consultancy group financed by the Ford Foundation in 1960 to support the school reforms the Italian Minister of Education Giuseppe Medici was promoting. The group was headed by James Bryant Conant, and its evaluations were based on principles of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, International Relations, Change Strategies
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