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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

Agriculture and Political Reform in Japan : The Koizumi Legacy [PDF]

open access: yes
Given former Prime Minister Koizumis reformist zeal, agriculture might have been expected to be high on his list of targets for so-called structural reform. However, an investigation of the record of his administration on agricultural policy reveals only
Aurelia George Mulgan
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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

Framing National Education in Hong Kong: A frame analysis of power dynamics in stakeholders' competing narratives

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
wiley   +1 more source

Thoughts of the Youth on Education. Students of The Maria Grzegorzewska University Towards Selected Party Postulates

open access: yesStudia Paedagogica Ignatiana, 2016
The article presents the results of research conducted among the students of The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw. The research was carried out using a copyright questionnaire.
Błażej Przybylski
doaj   +1 more source

"Towards Optimum Availability of Public Sector Information" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The policy objective I wish to pursue with this paper, in terms of the coalition agreement, is to ensure that public sector information is as widely accessible and available to citizens as possible.
Author, Corporate
core  

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

Democracy, Free Elections, and Gender Equality as Perceived by Recent Immigrants

open access: yesSocial Sciences
This study examines how democracy and its political attributes (such as free elections) and social attributes (such as gender equality) are perceived by people who come from nondemocratic countries and have lived for several months in a democratic ...
Anna Zagrebina
doaj   +1 more source

Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

ISSUES ON POLITICAL TRANSITION IN ALBANIA [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2019
Like every other Central and Eastern European country, Albania overthrew the communist dictatorship in 1990 and went on building a democratic country.
Adelina NEXHIPI
doaj  

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