Research on Computer Education and Education Reform Based on a Case Study

Mass Petitioning, Education Reform, and the Development of Political Culture in Madras, 1839–1842

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x21000418 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Scott Travanion Connors

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Education Reform ◽

Political Culture ◽

Political Activism ◽

East India Company ◽

Colonial State ◽

Growing Body ◽

The Creation

Abstract This article explores the emergence of reformist sentiment and political culture in Madras in the mid-nineteenth century. Moreover, it contributes to, and expands upon, the growing body of literature on colonial petitioning through a case-study of a mass petition demanding education reform. Signed in 1839 by 70,000 subjects from across the Madras presidency, the petition demanded the creation of a university that would qualify western-educated Indians to gain employment in the high public offices of the East India Company. Through an analysis of the lifecycle of this education petition, from its creation to its reception and the subsequent adoption of its demands by the Company government at Fort St George, this article charts the process by which an emergent, politicized public engaged with, and critiqued, the colonial state. Finally, it examines the transformative effect that the practice of mass petitioning had on established modes of political activism and communication between an authoritarian colonial state and the society it governed.

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Reform at the Intersection of Loose Coupling and Pedagogic Modalities: The Case of Hong Kong

Education and Urban Society ◽

10.1177/00131245211001911 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 001312452110019

Author(s):

Trevor Tsz-lok Lee

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Education Reform ◽

Global City ◽

Coupling Agents ◽

Loose Coupling ◽

Secondary Curriculum ◽

Reform Policy ◽

Local Actors ◽

Senior Secondary

This paper contributes to our understanding of the micro-policy experience of an implemented curriculum from the perspective of students, in addition to teachers, as the key coupling agents in the schools of a Chinese global city. Although the phenomenon of decoupling in educational policy is widely recognized, much less attention has been paid to the micro-dynamics involved in implementing education reform policy from the perspective of students and teachers. It is argued that these local actors’ experiences are best captured by the bi-dimensional framework of loose coupling and pedagogic modalities. This argument is illustrated through a case study of the implementation of the Liberal Studies reform under Senior Secondary Curriculum in Hong Kong since 2009. The study demonstrates how students and teachers interpret and make sense of policy, strategic, and practical needs manifested in the microprocesses of policy coupling and decoupling.

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The Politics of Education in Developing Countries

10.1093/oso/9780198835684.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Education Reform ◽

Learning Outcomes ◽

National Level ◽

Balance Of Power ◽

Successful Schools ◽

Politics Of Education ◽

Localized Solutions ◽

Policymaking And Implementation ◽

Political Settlement

This book examines the politics of the learning crisis in the global South, where learning outcomes have stagnated or worsened, despite progress towards Universal Primary Education since the 1990s. Comparative analysis of education reform in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda highlights systemic failure on the frontline of education service delivery, driven by deeper crises of policymaking and implementation: few governments try to raise educational standards with any conviction, and education bureaucracies are unable to deliver even those learning reforms that get through the policy process. Introductory chapters develop a theoretical framework within which to examine the critical features of the politics of education. Case study chapters demonstrate that political settlements, or the balance of power between contending social groups, shape the extent to which elites commit to adopting and implementing reforms aimed at improving learning outcomes, and the nature this influence takes. Informal politics and power relations can generate incentives that undermine rather than support elite commitment to development, politicizing the provision of education. Tracing reform processes from their policy origins down to the frontline, it seems that successful schools emerged as localized solutions to specific solutions, often against the grain of dysfunctional sectoral arrangements and the national-level political settlement, but with local political backing. The book concludes with discussion of the need for more politically attuned approaches that focus on building coalitions for change and supporting ‘best-fit’ types of problem-solving fixes, rather than calling for systemic change.

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SENCER “Do-Now” KQED social media in the classroom

Innovations in Teaching & Learning Conference Proceedings ◽

10.13021/g8hs4q ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. 2

Author(s):

Thomas C Wood

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Education Reform ◽

San Francisco ◽

Civic Capacity ◽

National Education ◽

College Course ◽

Current Events ◽

Student Reactions ◽

Enhanced Learning

By developing opportunities for students to learn through compelling current events, learning environments are improved. Inspired students discover relevance to their lives, create dialogue and gain confidence in their ability to expand civic capacity. Social media has been used to provide an experimental venue for this enhanced learning in selected courses nationally through project SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagement and Reform), an NSF sponsored national education reform initiative. In the fall of 2015, the New Century College course Mysteries of Migration was one of six courses selected nationally for the inaugural SENCER collaboration with KQED in San Francisco, where social media blogs called “Do Now” are flourishing. In this session, I will discuss the implementation of “Do Now” blogs into Mystery of Migration’s semester–long case study assignment. This course is interdisciplinary in scope, integrating the biology and ecology of migratory organisms with public policy. In this session I will discuss the student reactions and evidence of learning through the use of “Do Now” and the merits of implementing social media into existing courses.

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An Archivist and a Records Manager: Professional Education in Ukraine (Case study of the National Aviation University)

Knygotyra ◽

10.15388/knygotyra.2019.73.41 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 ◽

pp. 289-319

Author(s):

Iryna Tiurmenko ◽

Liudmyla Bozhuk

Keyword(s):

Education Reform ◽

Professional Education ◽

Higher Education Reform ◽

Academic Disciplines ◽

Records Management ◽

Archival Studies ◽

Archival Education ◽

Information Activity ◽

The University

A higher education reform in Ukraine, and the emergence of the new integrated program “Information, Library and Archival Studies” instead of “Records Management and Information Activity” in the educational space in particular, brought about various interpretations and sharp discussions. In general, the university community met these innovations without enthusiasm. The scientific thought of Ukrainian scholars on how to develop archival education in Ukraine was generally based on the tradition enshrined in the complex of the developed academic disciplines and tested in practice in conditions of intense competition among students.The approach of the Department of History and Records Management of the National Aviation University to modern training of the archivist was prompted by the needs of the labor market and the challenges of the digital society.1 It consists of finding ways to train modern specialists who possess interdisciplinary competences in the field of archival studies, records management, information activity, and socio-communicative sciences. This led to a study aimed at finding an up-to-date profile of a records manager/archivist.The research analyzes the approaches to the education of archivists in Ukraine at various stages of its socio-economic development and summarizes the current experience of the National Aviation University in this sphere.

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