The New Magistracy of Influence: Changing Governance of Education in Portugal

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 656-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natália Alves ◽  
Rui Canário
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
The Impact

This article considers the impact of recent changes in the governance of education in Portugal, drawing on interviews with Portuguese politicians and administrators centrally involved in education policy-making in the last 15 years. The interview data reveal a strong focus on the school as a vehicle for building democracy in Portugal. The school remains central to a project of enhancing social justice and supporting community, but at the same time there are concerns about the capacity of the school to cope with pressure for change. The same ambiguity is present in system actors' view of teachers: they are central to policy but also judged to be inadequate to meeting the need for change. The interviews also draw attention to the expanded role of supranational and transnational agencies in policy-making in Portugal, and the emerging ‘magistracy of influence’ that is engaged in these networks.

New Agendas for Special Education Policy: What the National Reports Haven't Said

1987 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleen Pugach ◽  
Mara Sapon-Shevin
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Special Education Policy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The calls for educational reform that have dominated the professional and lay literature for the past few years have been decidedly silent in discussing the role of special education either as a contributor or a solution to the problems being raised. As an introduction to this “Special Focus” on the relationship between general educational reform and special education, this article summarizes some of the more prominent reports with regard to their treatment (and nontreatment) of special education. The impact of proposed reforms for the conceptualization and operation of special education is the subject of the five articles that follow.

The increasing role of non-State actors in education policy-making. Evidence from Uruguay

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Moschetti ◽  
Marc Martínez Pons ◽  
Eloísa Bordoli ◽  
Pablo Martinis
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
State Actors

Feminist Perspectives on Foreign Policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie D'Aoust
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Impact

Foreign policy analysis (FPA) deals with the decision-making processes involved in foreign policy-making. As a field of study, FPA overlaps international relations (IR) theory and comparative politics. Studies that take into account either sex, women, or gender contribute to the development of knowledge on and about women in IR, which is in itself one of the goals of feminist scholarship. There are two main spheres of feminist inquiries when it comes to foreign policy: the role of women as sexed power holders involved in decision-making processes and power-sharing in the realm of foreign policy-making, and the role of gendered norms in the conduct and adoption of foreign policies. Many observers insist that feminism and foreign policy are linked only by a marriage of convenience, designed to either acknowledge the political accomplishments of women in the sphere of foreign policy such as Margaret Thatcher and Indira Ghandi, or bring attention to so-called “women’s issues,” such as reproduction rights and population control. Scholarship on women and/or gender in relation to foreign policy covers a wide range of themes, such as the role of women as political actors in decision-making processes and organizational structures; women’s human rights and gender mainstreaming; the impact of various foreign policies on women’s lives; and the concept of human security and the idea of women’s rights as a valid foreign policy objective. Three paradigms that have been explored as part of the study of women in comparative politics and IR are behavioralism, functionalism, and rational choice theory.

scholarly journals The impact of global scientific and education policy on the staffing of innovative breakthrough

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 22003
Author(s):  
Valeriia Semenova ◽  
Mikhail Fridman
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Scientific Problem ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
Expert Assessments ◽  
The Impact

This article is devoted to an important and topical scientific problem of personnel support for innovative breakthrough in the context of globalization. Much attention is paid to understanding the role of global scientific and educational policy as a conceptual and methodological basis for long-term development. The purpose of the article is to analyze the problem, identify the causes and possible consequences of the personnel crisis, determine and justify the role of global scientific and educational policy in achieving an innovative breakthrough. The article is based on research conducted on the basis of observation, analysis, generalization and systematization of scientific literature, expert assessments, regulatory documents and public statements of officials. The work is structured, which is confirmed by the use of traditional logic and methodology of scientific research methods (analysis, synthesis and extrapolation). The article reflects the results of studying the theoretical and methodological justification of the global scientific and educational policy and the conditions of its impact on the staffing of an innovative breakthrough.

Mea Culpa? The Role of Data Collection in Public Officials Acknowledging Policy Failure

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Sarah James
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Policy Failure ◽  
The Impact

Abstract State governments, often described as “laboratories of democracy,” design and implement many public policies, but this moniker also implies course correction when initial efforts fail. But how do states learn from failure? Existing hypotheses about policy learning and broad research capacity are insufficient. Using case studies of failed juvenile justice policies in Texas and Washington, I explore when failure acknowledgment occurs at all. I argue that a state’s bureaucratic capacity to gather data—distinct from its analytical capacity—is necessary for public officials to acknowledge failure, highlighting the impact of policy and institutional design on evidence-based policy making and policy corrections.

scholarly journals The role of organizational culture in policy mobilities – the case of South Korean climate change adaptation policies

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susann Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Adaptation Policy ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Policy Mobilities ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. The conceptualization of policies as mobile and mutable knowledge is the key feature of the recent debate on policy mobilities. Policy mobility studies have focused on the movement and translation of policies as well as on the impact of mobile policies on policy-making processes and governed spaces. Given that policy mobilities have mainly been examined in comparable institutional contexts, the current debate has neglected the role of organizational culture in the translation of policies. Organizational culture is understood as a set of shared assumptions that guide what happens in organizations by defining appropriate practices of policy making. The case study, South Korean adaptation policy, illustrates that organizational culture has a significant impact on the translation of mobile adaptation policy. Besides the claim to consider organizational culture more prominently in the field of policy mobility studies, this paper illustrates the translation process of adaptation policy in the South Korean political system. The practices in South Korean political institutions dealing with climate change adaptation are highly characterized by the avoidance of risks. The propensity to avoid risks leads policy makers to focus on technical solutions to climate change adaptation and to neglect the participation of civil society.

Role of Clinical Legal Education in Social Justice in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
Olanike S. Adelakun-Odewale
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Education System ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
Education Training ◽  
The Impact

Very few faculties of law in Nigerian universities that offer law programme have established law clinics that offer live-client services to the public as part of their legal education training. Across the border, clinical legal education is gaining more popularity by the day as a tool to imbibe the necessary skills in students to become sound legal practitioners. This article assesses the impact of law clinics on the skills of law students to enable them handle effectively the demands of the legal profession. The article analyses the correlation between law clinics that provide services to live clients and the skills acquired vis-à-vis the performance of student clinicians. The article recommends the need to integrate live-client law clinics into the mainstream legal education system in Nigeria.

Education policy for social justice in Cyprus: The role of stakeholders’ values

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Hajisoteriou ◽  
Panayiotis Angelides
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Education Policy

Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) Presidium Committee Nairobi Preparations

Meridians ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-182
Author(s):  
Destiny Wiley-Yancy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Status Of Women

Abstract The Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization’s (AAPSO) Presidium Committee on Women met to prepare for the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya. The committee aimed to tackle the impact of colonialism and imperialism and the ways they disproportionately impacted the lives of women. The AAPSO wanted to do this through a series of workshops focusing on the status of women in apartheid South Africa, the destabilization of women and children in Africa and Asia, the burden of debt in developing countries, and the subversive role of transnational corporations in mass media. The committee also recognized that women, particularly in Africa and Asia, formed the forefront of resistance movements, driving the struggle. This meeting shows that the Presidium Committee on Women optimistically saw women’s social justice as an integral component to the larger anticolonial and anti-imperial project.

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