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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Organization of Indian Health Bureaucracy and its Delivery System

open access: yes
The aim of this paper is to probe into the structure and functioning of health bureaucracy in India with specific reference to rural health bureaucracy of Tamil Nadu State.
K., Srinivasan, Raka, Sharan
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Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter examines various aspects of the bureaucracy. In a broad sense, bureaucracy denotes the large formal structural and procedural arrangements of large complex organizations. W.
Patricia Moore, Moore, Patricia
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

Representative Bureaucracy in Civil Service: A Policy for Development through Gender Representation and Diversity Management

open access: yes, 2019
Social progress and economic development are not possible by keeping women lag behind They should be given a level playing field to foster in their social and working life Representative bureaucracy theory suggests that increasing gender representation
Amita Das
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Bureaucracy

open access: yes, 2002
Max Weber extolled the hierarchic-bureaucratic mode of organization: "Experience" - he claimed - "tends universally to show that the purely bureaucratic type of administrative organization...
Wellisz, Stanislaw H.
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A curated review of ESA publications for teaching ecology

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Abstract Since the early 1990s, the Ecological Society of America's journals have published hundreds of articles of direct relevance to those who teach ecology—especially at the undergraduate level. In an effort to draw attention to that literature, we conducted an analysis to identify well‐cited articles, as well as those that may be underrecognized ...
Kenneth M. Klemow, Rosemarie Desmarais
wiley   +1 more source

Bureaucracy, Open Access and Social Pluralism: Returning the Common to the Goose

open access: yes, 2005
Bureaucracy has long been the object of fierce intellectual critique and political polemic. We argue that the defense of bureaucracy must be a qualified one.
PALUMBO, Antonino
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Bureaucratic Regulation and Emotional Labor: Implications for Social Services Case Management

open access: yes, 2011
This paper examines Family and Independence Case Managers in the social services in Atlanta, GA, as they negotiate a highly bureaucratized benefit delivery system that undervalues the emotional costs inherent in its operation. I begin with an examination
Macon, Kelley M
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