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Crawford, Andrea; Joseph, Stephen; Sellman, Edward – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
This article examines the potentiality, acceptability and ethical considerations of a mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) for supporting pupils' mental well-being in a junior school. To date, research has predominantly focused on the psychological or behavioural benefits of MBIs rather than broader and more philosophical issues of implementation.…
Descriptors: Ethics, Metacognition, Well Being, Intervention
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Mathew, A. – Higher Education for the Future, 2019
Kerala State higher education policy is a narrative of the government's perpetual engagement to safeguard its regional and social equity, evolved consciously since its erstwhile princely rule. With more than three-fourths of colleges under private managements, only Kerala, in India, manages to keep at bay the pressure by the unaided private…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Sperka, Leigh; Enright, Eimear – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
The progressively global, neoliberal, privatised, and digital education environment poses new methodological challenges for educational researchers, prompting a need to innovate. It has been suggested, however, that better commentary and reflection on methodological innovation in education is required. This paper considers the benefits and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Ethnography
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Maria Menegaki – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This paper addresses aspects of alternative proposals taking place in the public education system, based on an anthropological, ethnographic, comparative study of alternative schools and educational projects in Catalonia. More specifically, it first explores educational change in Catalonia through time and on the present, with a special focus on…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Change, Cultural Differences, School Choice
Daschbach, Joseph Lawrence – ProQuest LLC, 2018
School reforms in New Orleans have brought sweeping changes to the way public schools are governed and managed, and to the way in which students are assigned to public schools. Non-profit charter school boards now govern over 90% of public schools, and families are able to choose the public school in which they enroll. Competition within the…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Expenditures
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Saura, Geo; Muñoz-Moreno, José-Luis; Luengo-Navas, Julián; Martos, José-Manuel – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2017
The use of social networks for protest purposes has been an essential element in recent global protests against the economic measures of privatization of public services. Social networks are changing political communication, mobilization and organization of collective protests. Taking into account the relationship between collective protests and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Activism, Citizenship
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Yoon, Ee-Seul; Young, Jon; Livingston, Emily – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
This study examines the changing style, scale, and scope of raising private funds to provide resources for public schools. In particular, we focus on school fundraising, especially the role of discourse in scaling up school fundraising practices to facilitate education privatisation. Drawing from Stephen Ball's policy sociology, and employing…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Educational Finance, Public Schools, Private Financial Support
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Poole, Wendy; Fallon, Gerald; Sen, Vicheth – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
K-12 public education finance policy in the province of British Columbia, Canada, responsibilises school district administrators to engage in competitive entrepreneurial practices, not only to increase public funding, but also to generate supplementary funding from private sources. We focus specifically on the generation of revenue from…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance), Public Education
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Vally, Salim – Education as Change, 2020
In this article I discuss the vision of education for liberation during the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa. The article focuses specifically on "People's Education" and "Workers' Education". Instead of an instrumental role for education reduced solely to the labour market requirements of business, economic growth and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, Politics of Education
Paulina Veronica Morales Cardenas – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This mixed methods study explores how market-oriented policies, specifically privatization and decentralization of the educational system in Chile have impacted students' academic achievement since the Change in the Constitution in 1980. First, using teachers' interviews I identify variables that influences students' academic achievement and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrative Organization, Privatization, Teacher Attitudes
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Hargreaves, Andy – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2021
This paper draws on current international analysis of pandemic issues in education, and on recent arguments by critical economists and political scientists, to examine two scenarios for educational policy beyond the coronavirus pandemic. One looming possibility is an onrush of austerity, deep cuts to public education, financial hardship for the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Retrenchment
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Alexander, F. King – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
The market-based funding model more commonly known as direct student aid, which was adopted by the federal government during the late 1960s and early 1970s, has created a series of unintended consequences that threaten educational equity and the future of public higher education. The economic and societal impacts of the privatization of US public…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Higher Education, Educational Finance
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Winton, Sue – Critical Studies in Education, 2018
School fundraising is known to reproduce inequities in schools, yet it remains common practice in Ontario, Canada; findings from a critical policy analysis of an advocacy group's efforts to change fundraising policy help explain why this is the case. Adopting a discursive understanding of policy, the study used rhetorical analysis to identify how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fund Raising, Policy Analysis, Advocacy
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Mangione, Jessica; Parker, Melissa; O'Sullivan, Mary; Quayle, Mike – Irish Educational Studies, 2020
In Ireland, primary physical education (PE) is delivered by non-specialist classroom teachers. A growing number of primary schools are committing resources to external providers for partial delivery of the PE curriculum. Some researchers (Evans and Davies [2014; 2015]. "Neoliberal Freedoms, Privatisation and the Future of Physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Outsourcing, Privatization, Delivery Systems
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Gali, Yarden; Schechter, Chen – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been involved in academic programs in many Western countries, actively participating and reshaping policy implementation. This tremendous growth in external voluntary and philanthropic organizations in schools is associated with a global trend toward decentralization, commodification,…
Descriptors: Nongovernmental Organizations, Voluntary Agencies, Philanthropic Foundations, Principals
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