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Making sense of doctoral training reforms in the social sciences: [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Educational reforms are increasingly driven by political and economic forces beyond the university. In this paper I describe how the policy initiatives of the United Kingdom’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have steadily reshaped the length,
Mills, David
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Exploring teen well-being and social media use during the pandemic summer of 2020

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Social media has become a ubiquitous activity for teens in the United States with most going online daily. Legitimate concerns about teen well-being and mental health have often pointed to social media as a negative influence, yet prior research finds ...
Stacey A. Rutledge   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Policy for Efficient Education [PDF]

open access: yesMetroeconomica, 2002
We study the role of public policy in promoting efficiency in human capital accumulation. Agents accumulate human capital by allocating time to home study and school attendance. The return to time spent in school is subject to congestion. The individual also faces an aggregate externality in skill accumulation.
Fisher, Walter H., Keuschnigg, Christian
openaire   +7 more sources

Credentials, Perpetual “Foreignness”, and Feeling out of Place: Three Stories of Resilience from Teachers of Refugee Background

open access: yesSocial Sciences
This qualitative research project seeks to examine the obstacles faced by educators who come to the U.S. as refugees. The three participants in this study are from Iraq, Sudan, and Turkey.
Shyla González-Doğan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The normative foundations of lifelong education [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
'Lifelong Education' is a term which is bandied about nowadays with equanimity and fashionable ease wherever educationalists of whatever kind get together for brainstorming sessions about educational problems or to discuss policy or strategies.
Wain, Kenneth
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Leadership as an Act of Love: Leading in Dangerous Times

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2019
This essay is an invitation to engage in a heart-whole thought experiment around the possibilities and potential of framing leadership as an act of love.
Mónica C. Byrne-Jiménez, Irene H. Yoon
doaj   +1 more source

Demobilizing knowledge in American schools: censoring critical perspectives

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Controversies have erupted in recent years over the teaching of critical perspectives in United States K-12 schools, particularly related to issues of diversity, race, gender, and sexuality. These tensions have resulted in attacks on critical curriculum,
Dustin Hornbeck, Joel R. Malin
doaj   +1 more source

Improving Resident Understanding of Healthcare Business and Policy through the Development of a High-yield and Dynamic Educational Series [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Objective: Residents have a strong desire to be engaged in and learn about the financial and societal impact of health care delivery and reform initiatives1,2.
Legge, John
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Educational Policies and Youth Unemployment

open access: yesProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013
AbstractHigh rates of youth unemployment in many European Union countries do not have to be attributed exclusively to the economic crisis but to imperfections in the labour market. In particular, to the mismatch between the requirements of companies and the skills offered by new entrants to the labour market, who are often poorly prepared to face the ...
Refrigeri L., Aleandri G.
openaire   +6 more sources

Use of the LMS Moodle for an Effective Implementation of an Innovative Policy in Higher Educational Institutions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 2020
This article considers the opportunities of using Moodle LMS (learning management system) tools to ensure the effective implementation of an innovative policy of the higher educational institution.
Mariia Zabolotniaia   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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