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Denying the Accusation of Plagiarism: Power Relations at Play in Dictating Plagiarism as Academic Misconduct
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Putra, Idhamsyah Eka; Jazilah, Nur Inda; Adishesa, Made Syanesti; Al Uyun, Dhia; Wiratraman, Herlambang Perdana – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
In academia, plagiarism is considered detrimental to the advancement of sciences, and the plagiarists can be charged with sanctions. However, the plagiarism cases involving three rectors of universities in Indonesia stand out, as they could defend their stand for not committing academic misconduct despite evidence found. By analyzing the three…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Power Structure, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Digital Archives in the Cloud: Collective Memory, Institutional Histories and the Politics of Information
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Peters, Michael A.; Besley, Tina – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
The archive is a cultural institution that creates a framework for the social and collective memory and as such is one of the collection of knowledge institutions that not only preserves and classifies "texts" but uses them to re-create collective memory and sometimes to invent cultural histories. Like all knowledge institutions, the…
Descriptors: Archives, Information Technology, Data Analysis, Memory
The Politics of Curricular Erasure: Debates on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Brazilian 'Common Core' Curriculum
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Moeller, Kathryn – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
Through the critical feminist lens of intersectionality, this article examines how race, gender, and sexuality were contested through a process of curricular revision before the "Base Nacional Comum Curricular," the new Brazilian 'common core' curriculum known as the BNCC, became federal law in 2017. Drawing on interviews with professors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feminism, Race, Gender Differences
State Capital Expenditures for Higher Education: "Where the Real Politics Happens"
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Tandberg, David A.; Ness, Erik C. – Journal of Education Finance, 2011
Little empirical attention has been paid to state capital expenditures for higher education. While some anecdotal evidence exists that the process of appropriating capital dollars to higher education institutions is a particularly political process, no study has systematically examined the determinants of higher education state capital spending.…
Descriptors: State Aid, Expenditures, Higher Education, Governance
Power and the Polls: A Community Power Structure and Its Implications for a School Bond Referendum.
Conners, Dennis A. – 1981
A study was undertaken to explore the power structure in a Southwestern community of 93,000 and to determine which elements in that power structure had the most influence in a local school bond referendum. The data for the study were collected using two techniques. First, a panel of knowledgeable community members identified 85 politically…
Descriptors: Bond Issues, Community Leaders, Community Study, Community Surveys
Why School Board Members Choose to Seek or Not Seek Re-election: A Test of Political Efficacy and Trust Theory.
Robinson, Norman; Wood, Marilyn – 1987
This study of incumbent British Columbia school board members prior to election analyzes relationships between individual members' feelings of political efficacy and trust and their decisions to seek or not seek reelection. The 60 subjects, from 24 districts, represented candidates (those members seeking reelection) and retirees (members not…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Decision Making, Elections, Elementary Secondary Education