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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

Institutional Logics and Political Networks: A Theoretical Framework for Academic Staffing in Newly-Founded Management Departments in Turkey [PDF]

open access: yesYönetim ve Organizasyon Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2016
This article develops a conceptual framework for explaining how individual embeddedness in multiple institutional logics at the field level and in political networks at the societal level influence managerial decisions within organizations.
Şükrü Özen, Deniz Öztürk
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Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
{Excerpt} For decades, unions around the world, like the teachers\u27 union in Australia, have been struggling. Across advanced English-speaking economies, we have seen the rising power of capital and its increasing influence over government.
Tattersall, Amanda
core   +1 more source

Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Socialization as a Sphere of Being of Homo Politicus

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Political Science, 2008
Political socialization means something more than political context of socialization. Study in political socialization must be oriented on political socialization as special science category with own history, opening by the logic of Homo politicus being ...
I A Scheglov
doaj  

Fiscal Rules for Subnational Governments. Some organizing principles and Latin American experiences [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we investigate the logic and the workings of fiscal rules, with focus on rules for subnational governments. We argue against a simplistic view that sees the writing of numerical limits on fiscal variables as the solution to fundamental ...
Mariano Tommasi, Miguel Braun
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Rationalizing Racism: Arizona Representatives Employment of Euphemisms for an Assault on Mexican American Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study details the political climate and logic priming the termination of Mexican American Studies in elementary and high school programs within the state of Arizona.
Miller, Maryam
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Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
wiley   +1 more source

Estratégias matrimoniais da Casa de Bragança e o casamento do duque D. João II [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article begins with an analysis of the long-term matrimonial strategies of the House of Braganza (1383-1640) with the end of determining and characterising the logic of their development.
Cunha, Mafalda Soares da
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Hong Kong's non‐local undergraduate recruitment: Policies, institutional practices and student perspectives

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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