Haiti’s Language-in-Education Policy: Conflicting Discourses at the Local Level

2017 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Mary A. Avalos ◽  
Jennifer Augustin
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Conflicting Discourses

Rural perspectives and special education policy: Consideration of equity, efficiency and choice

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-8
Author(s):  
Terry R. Berkeley
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Dynamic Characteristics ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Special Education Policy ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Policy Consideration ◽  
Policy Statements

Rarely has the rural perspective been included specifically in federal special education policy statements, a form of social policy. This article discusses the importance of such an inclusion from an original view: the culture of policy. The culture of policy includes the dynamic characteristics that allow policy to be implemented in particular ways from the federal level to the local level. In this article, special education policy is utilized to portray the cultural aspects of policy so that this notion can be incorporated into service implementation.

scholarly journals Policy Framework for Education Development in Nepal

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Pramila Neupane
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Diverse Society

This exploration of challenges and barriers to inclusion in Nepal elaborates a conceptual framework for education development in a diverse society. As Nepal is a highly diverse, caste-based, multi-ethnic, and multi-linguistic society with very low development indicators, the article focuses on barriers to education and related issues across different socioeconomic groups. A systematic review of the relevant literature forms the basis for the design of a practical approach to education development for this diverse society in light of education policy trends in Nepal since 1950. The five proposed steps for education policy formulation and implementation include an in-depth analysis of the existing situation and outcome assessments. The proposed approach will enable local governance institutions to design and implement pragmatic provisions for education development at local level in the context of a new constitution that mandates local government management of school education.

scholarly journals Teacher professionality at a time of mobility:

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Wedin
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Level ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Management Level ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds ◽  
Conflicting Discourses ◽  
Local Levels

This study aims to investigate how the educational and linguistic backgrounds of teachers affect how they are positioned and how they position themselves in relation to their profession in a language introduction programme at upper secondary school in Sweden. Material from two years of study at one school was used to conduct a nexus analysis. The material comprised policy documents at the national and local levels; interviews with principals and teachers; and classroom and school environment observations. Conflicting discourses appear in the analysis in terms of teacher competence and teacher roles. Those teachers who had the relevant professional competence, as according to national documents, felt that their knowledge was not acknowledged and that they were not listened to. Official documents state that principals are responsible for fulfilling stipulated demands; however, they do not always have the necessary knowledge as this is not a requirement for their position. Thus, an ambiguous picture appears where teachers who are positioned as competent at the national level are positioned only to teach their own subject and are not given voice on issues relating to general teacher competence and organisation of education at the local level. This article highlights the importance of knowledge and understanding relating to L2 student learning at the management level.

Modernisation of Educational Governance in Greece: From State Control to State Steering

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evie Zambeta
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Educational Governance ◽  
State Control ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Education Governance ◽  
Contemporary Education

This article attempts to understand the emergent forms of education governance that are developing in the context of the Greek educational system. The methodology used is discourse analysis, which draws upon interviews with political actors at the central and local level, while it also takes into consideration other written texts and parliamentary proceedings relevant to the recent educational reform. The article argues that education policy constructs modernisation as an inevitable process related to globalisation and European integration. The introduction of competitiveness and entrepreneurialism is perceived as the main means to accomplish the task of modernisation, while social exclusion remains unvoiced in contemporary education policy.

scholarly journals Engaging with tradition? How history shapes engagement with local communities in universities in England and Ontario, Canada

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Sabzalieva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Spectrum ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
University Engagement

The impetus for universities to engage – to reach out, share, and exchange knowledge – with the communities around them is not a new phenomenon, but one that has gathered salience and speed in recent years (Watson, 2007; Hall, 2009; Davis, 2016). University engagement takes place in a range of dimensions within the global-national-regional-local spectrum (Benneworth et al, 2009; Goddard, 2009). This comparative study of six public universities in England and Ontario, Canada focuses on engagement with local communities. By analysing both institutional histories and universities’ contemporary strategic plans, the study shows that understanding universities’ foundations offers important insights into their current levels of engagement with their local communities. Using the local level as a lens not only demonstrates connections between a university’s past and its present, but also offers a counterweight to the prevailing dominance in higher education policy and literature of international and global factors.

Do You Want to See the Tree? Ignore the Forest

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Poirel ◽  
Claire Sara Krakowski ◽  
Sabrina Sayah ◽  
Arlette Pineau ◽  
Olivier Houdé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Recognition ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Visual Environment ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Hierarchical Stimuli ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
The One

The visual environment consists of global structures (e.g., a forest) made up of local parts (e.g., trees). When compound stimuli are presented (e.g., large global letters composed of arrangements of small local letters), the global unattended information slows responses to local targets. Using a negative priming paradigm, we investigated whether inhibition is required to process hierarchical stimuli when information at the local level is in conflict with the one at the global level. The results show that when local and global information is in conflict, global information must be inhibited to process local information, but that the reverse is not true. This finding has potential direct implications for brain models of visual recognition, by suggesting that when local information is conflicting with global information, inhibitory control reduces feedback activity from global information (e.g., inhibits the forest) which allows the visual system to process local information (e.g., to focus attention on a particular tree).

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