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How can welfare regime and production regime theories explain differences in schools’ ability grouping policies? A comparative study using the PISA school survey

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Blacks became Blue: The 1936 African American Voting Shift From the Party of Lincoln to the New Deal Coalition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Despite the vast research done on the African American influence in the Democratic Party, comparably little has been done on what led them to become part of the Democratic Party in the first place.
Daniel, Daphney
core   +1 more source

Employability Programmes in higher education: Supporting students through tangible, transitional and transformational approaches

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia.
Michael Maher   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS: INDONESIA AND ENGLAND.

open access: yesKlausula
The democratic system basically realises balance and justice for the entire community or people without any discrimination. One of its implementations is the process in general elections conducted every five years to elect executives and legislatures ...
Salmaa Al Zahra Ramadhani   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

What characterises well‐connected schools? Exploring centrality in inter‐organisational school networks

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Within the educational literature, inter‐organisational school networks are commonly considered instruments for administration, management, and school improvement, but are rarely scrutinised as objects of study themselves. Conversely, in organisational studies, this perspective is given more prominence.
Ignacio Wyman, Paul Wilfred Armstrong
wiley   +1 more source

Political Party Crises and the Implications for Democratic Governance in Nigeria

open access: yesJournal of African Politics
Whereas institutions and structures of governance in Nigeria have the features and capacity to function according to democratic processes and norms, their outputs over the years have been far below expectations, hence the persistent cry by people for ...
Olajide O Akanji
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Turkey in the Strategic Plans of the Democratic and Republican Parties in the U.S. (end of 20th – beginning of 21st c.)

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2014
This article is devoted to the evolution of U.S. foreign policy toward Turkey in the context of inter-party rivalry. The article discusses the ideas and actions of the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S.
Shenin Andrey Sergeevich
doaj   +1 more source

Youth activism in Poland: Perceptions, participation and diverging perspectives from young people and activists

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peoples Democratic Party in the Fourth Republic of Nigeria

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2016
Their nature and functions make political parties central to democratic governance especially in the new democracies of Africa that face the challenge of building strong and enduring democratic institutions. It is accepted that the existing trend in most
Aliyu Mukhtar Katsina
doaj   +1 more source

School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source

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