CONTENT DEVELOPMENT FOR ESTONIAN GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS: CONTEXT, CURRICULA AND SCHOOL PRACTICE 1991-2016

2016 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Urve Läänemets
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
School Practice ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Text Production ◽  
Content Development ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Comprehensive Schools ◽  
Selection Of

The issues of selection of the content for general comprehensive schools has become a highly debated issue in the 21st century and several countries have turned special attention to it. Estonian experience of curriculum development has shown, how important different contexts have been influencing educational reforms. The processes of educational policy making and research in the field of specification of the content in 1991-2016 have been analysed using Crawford’s specification of different contexts: the context of global, regional and local influences; the context of text production (production of curriculum documents) and the context of practice. General as well as subject specific principles can be used for selection of the content of traditional as well as new/emerging schools subjects and there should be rational proportions between the traditional and innovative content of learning for general comprehensive schools. Ahistorical and non-theoretical approaches can become counterproductive considering the school culture within a particular society.

scholarly journals COMPETENCES AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY-MAKING CONCERNING NATIONAL CURRICULA FOR SCHOOLS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Urve Läänemets
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Different Types ◽  
International Assessment ◽  
Oriented Approach

Competence-oriented approach for educational reforms, including national curriculum (NC) development, has been recommended both by the OECD and the European Commission  since the beginning of the 21st century. International assessment, especially PISA studies from 2003 onwards have also been using selected competences for comparing academic achievement of the 15-year- olds. The influence of the mentioned recommendations for NC development in Estonia has been analysed and the role of different types of knowledge has been highlighted.

Of numbers, narratives and challenges: Data as evidence in 21st century policy-making

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1043-1055
Author(s):  
Gaby Umbach
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Evidence Use ◽  
The Third ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Science Advice ◽  
Governance Tools ◽  
The Impact

This article1 offers reflections on the use of data as evidence in 21st century policy-making. It discusses the concept of evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM) as well as the governance and knowledge effects of data as evidence. With this focus, it interlinks the analysis of statistics and politics. The paper first introduces the concept of EIPM and the impact of evidence use. Here it focusses on science and knowledge as resources in policy-making, on the institutionalisation of science advice and on the translation of information and knowledge into evidence. The second part of the article reflects on data as evidence. This part concentrates on abstract and concrete functions of data as governance tools in policy-making, on data as a robust form of evidence and on the effects of data on knowledge and governance. The third part highlights challenges for data as evidence in policy-making, among them, politicisation, transparency, and diversity as well as objectivity and contestation. Finally, the last part draws conclusions on the production and use of data as evidence in EIPM. Throughout the second part of the reflections, reference is made to Walter Radermacher’s 2019 matrix of actors and activities related to data, facts, and policy published in this journal.

Romance and Latin approaches to word structure features

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo ◽  
Isabel Pujol Payet
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Word Structure ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The interest in morphology and its interaction with the other grammatical components has increased in the last twenty years, with new approaches coming into stage so as to get more accurate analyses of the processes involved in morphological construal. This special issue is a valuable contribution to this field of study. It gathers a selection of five papers from the Morphology and Syntax workshop (University of Girona, July 2017) which, on the basis of Romance and Latin phenomena, discuss word structure and its decomposition into hierarchies of features. Even though the papers share a compositional view of lexical items, they adopt different formal theoretical approaches to the lexicon-syntax interface, thus showing the benefit of bearing in mind the possibilities that each framework provides. This introductory paper serves as a guide for the readers of this special collection and offers an overview of the topics dealt in each contribution.

The logic of formatting: A case study on transnational television production

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-408
Author(s):  
Jolien van Keulen ◽  
Tonny Krijnen ◽  
Joke Bauwens
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Ownership Structures ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Content Development ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Production Company ◽  
Selection Of

The transnationalization of television production has been examined by studies on formats and multinational media companies, which have often highlighted the resilience of the local in the global. This article investigates transnationalization on the micro level of television production, drawing on participant observations in a Dutch production company that is partly owned by an American conglomerate. It explores the deep entanglement of the local with the global in different facets of production – including legal, organizational and market aspects – as manifested in daily practices and decision-making in television production. Our analysis reveals an industrial logic of formatting that is not only induced by transnational ownership structures and business models but also deeply ingrained in production routines and programme conventions. Through this logic, transnationalization shapes media professionals’ daily work, the selection of programme ideas and the process of content development.

Lead Screening

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 854-855
Author(s):  
LYNN R. GOLDMAN
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Lead Toxicity ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Prevalence Rates ◽  
Mortality Weekly Report ◽  
California Department ◽  
Weekly Report ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Selection Of

To the Editor.— Dr Edgar J. Schoen does not like lead screening.1 In a letter to Pediatrics, "Lead Toxicity in the 21st Century: Will We Still Be Treating It?" he refers to a study my colleagues at the California Department of Health Services and I conducted in Oakland, California as "a vivid example of how poor methodology and biased selection of subjects can lead to greatly exaggerated prevalence rates," accusing me of having a "serious omission" in a submission to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The Public's Role in Educational Policy-Making: An International View

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred S. Coombs ◽  
Richard L. Merritt
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
International View

scholarly journals Deepening and Connecting Democratic Processes. The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Mini-Publics in Renewing Democracy

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Ank Michels ◽  
Harmen Binnema
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Fundamental Nature ◽  
The Core ◽  
Equal Chance ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Selection Of

In recent decades, so-called “mini-publics” have been organized in many countries to renew policy making and democracy. One characteristic of mini-publics is that the selection of the participants is based on random sampling or sortition. This gives each member of the community an equal chance of being selected. Another feature is that deliberation forms the core of the process of how proposals are developed. In this paper, we investigate the possibilities and challenges of sortition and deliberation in the context of the call for a deepening of democracy and more citizen engagement in policy making. Based on extensive research on citizens’ forums (G1000) in The Netherlands, we show the potential of mini-publics, but a number of shortcomings as well. Some of these are related to the specific design of the G1000, while others are of a more fundamental nature and are due to the contradictory democratic values that deliberative mini-publics try to combine. One of these concerns the tension between the quality of deliberation and political impact. We conclude that combining institutional approaches could be a way out to deal with these tensions and a step forward to both deepen and connect democratic processes.

Political and corporate elites and localised educational policy-making: the case of Kingswood Academy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth McGinity
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
The North ◽  
Corporate Elites ◽  
Thinking Tools ◽  
Important Site

This chapter reports on data and analysis to theorise the role that both corporate and political elites played in the development and enactment of localised policy-making at Kingswood Academy; a secondary school in the North of England. The analysis offered reveals how a single case-study school provides an important site to explore the ways in which the educational policy environment provides the conditions for elites to play a significant role in the development and delivery of localised policy processes in England. Bourdieu (1986; 1992) provides the thinking tools to undertake this theoretical and intellectual work, and I deploy his conceptualisation of misrecognition as a means of interrogating how the involvement of corporate and political elites in the processes of localised policy-making reproduces the hierarchised power of particular networks, which ultimately contribute to the privatisation of educational ‘goods’ as marketised commodities.

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