Policy actors or objects of policy? Teacher candidates' interpretations of ‘teacher quality’ policy initiatives in Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 103440
Author(s):  
Melissa Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Quality ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Quality Policy

scholarly journals Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Teacher Quality ◽  
Bayesian Learning ◽  
Additional Benefit ◽  
Teacher Labor Market ◽  
Firing Rates ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Optimal Policies ◽  
Teacher Contracts ◽  
Quality Policy

Teacher contracts that condition pay and retention on demonstrated performance can improve selection into and out of teaching. I study alternative contracts in a simulated teacher labor market that incorporates dynamic self-selection and Bayesian learning. Bonus policies create only modest incentives and thus have small effects on selection. Reductions in tenure rates can have larger effects, but must be accompanied by substantial salary increases; elimination of tenure confers little additional benefit unless firing rates are extremely high. Benefits of both bonus and tenure policies exceed costs, though optimal policies are sensitive to labor market parameters about which little is known. (JEL I21, J22, J23, J24, J31, J41, J45)

Interdisciplinarity in Historical Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-642
Author(s):  
Mitchell G. Ash
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Central Claim

This paper sketches a historical account of interdisciplinarity. A central claim advanced is that the modern array of scientific and humanistic disciplines and interdisciplinarity emerged together; both are moving targets, which must therefore be studied historically in relation to one another as institutionalized practices. A second claim is that of a steadily increasing complexity; new fields emerged on the boundaries of existing disciplines beginning in the late nineteenth century, followed by multi- and transdisciplinary initiatives in the twentieth, and finally transdisciplinary programmatic research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The latter two phases in this development have been driven primarily by funding agencies seeking to move the sciences in particular directions deemed socially or politically desirable (in dictatorships as well as democracies), while the existing disciplines remained in place and new ones came into being. Such policy initiatives have transformed both disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in unanticipated ways. The question whether multi- or transdisciplinary arrangements produce epistemically better science or scholarship appears not to have been raised, let alone examined, by the policy actors driving their creation.

scholarly journals The Power of Partnerships in Becoming Accountable for the Impact of Teacher Candidates on P-12 Learning

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Roger Pankratz
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Quality ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Quality Enhancement ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Project Objectives ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Partner Schools

The “Renaissance Partnership”, a consortium of eleven universities and their partner schools, was one of the first twenty-five Teacher Quality Enhancement Projects funded in 1999. The Project’s two primary goals, “to become accountable for the impact of teachergraduates on the students they teach” and “to institutionalize reforms in preparation programs,” to a great extent have been achieved. Successes are attributed to “the power of partnerships.” This paper provides a brief account of the development of the Renaissance Partnership and the struggles to achieve project objectives, a description of project achievements, a third party evaluator’s summary and, finally, a project director’s reflections and conclusions.

The political economy of restricting marketing to address the double burden of malnutrition: two case studies from Fiji

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Thow ◽  
Gade Waqa ◽  
Jennifer Browne ◽  
Tarryn Phillips ◽  
Celia McMichael ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Breast Milk Substitutes ◽  
Milk Substitutes ◽  
Double Burden Of Malnutrition

Abstract Objective: To draw lessons from Fiji regarding the challenges and opportunities for policy initiatives to restrict (i) food marketing to children and (ii) marketing of breast milk substitutes, to inform policy for the double burden of malnutrition. Design: Qualitative political economy analysis of two policy case studies. Setting: Fiji. Participants: Eleven key informants from relevant sectors, representing public health, economic and consumer interests. Results: This study used two policy initiatives as case studies to examine factors influencing decision-making: Marketing Controls (Foods for Infants and Young Children) Regulations 2010, amended in 2016 to remove guidelines and restrictions on marketing in the form of labelling, and the draft Advertising and Promotion of Unhealthy Foods and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children Regulation developed in 2014 but awaiting review by the Solicitor General’s Office. Factors identified included: a policy paradigm in which regulation of business activity contradicts economic policy goals; limited perception by key policy actors of links between nutrition and marketing of breast milk substitutes, foods and beverages; and a power imbalance between industry and public health stakeholders in policymaking. Regulation of marketing for health purposes sits within the health sector’s interest but not its legislative remit, while within the economic sector’s remit but not interest. Opportunities to strengthen restrictions on marketing to improve nutrition and health include reframing the policy issue, strategic advocacy and community engagement. Conclusions: Restricting marketing should be recognised by public health actors as a public health and an industry policy issue, to support strategic engagement with economic policy actors.

A Typology of Caregiving Situations and Service Use in Family Carers of Older People in Six European Countries

GeroPsych ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Di Rosa ◽  
Christopher Kofahl ◽  
Kevin McKee ◽  
Barbara Bień ◽  
Giovanni Lamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Older People ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Family Caregiving ◽  
Service Use ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Family Carers ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Typology Of Care

This paper presents the EUROFAMCARE study findings, examining a typology of care situations for family carers of older people, and the interplay of carers with social and health services. Despite the complexity of family caregiving situations across Europe, our analyses determined the existence of seven “caregiving situations,” varying on a range of critical indicators. Our study also describes the availability and use of different support services for carers and care receivers, and carers’ preferences for the characteristics of support services. Our findings have relevance for policy initiatives in Europe, where limited resources need to be more equitably distributed and services should be targeted to caregiving situations reflecting the greatest need, and organized to reflect the preferences of family carers.

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