scholarly journals ‘A Government of Transformation’: An Analysis of the Initial Education Policy Directions of the Labour-Led Coalition Government of New Zealand 2017–2018

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Barker ◽  
Bronwyn Wood
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
First Century ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Education Equity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Equity And Access ◽  
Research In Education

© 2019, New Zealand Association for Research in Education. From the outset, the Labour-led Coalition Government of 2017 was intent on ‘transformation’. For the education sector, this was signalled immediately with the announcement of an extensive programme of review and reform initiated in their first 100 days of power. Yet, what is at the heart of the proposed changes and what were they trying to address? Drawing on Bacchi’s (Analysing policy: What’s the problem represented to be? Pearson, London, 2009) What’s the Problem Represented to Be? approach, we examine the significant problems identified by the in-coming Government through key public messages during their first 8 months (October 26th, 2017–June 30th, 2018). By analysing official discourses released by Ministers, we examine how the problems which the policies intended to address were constructed and represented to the public. Our analysis identified four main ‘problems’: the de-professionalisation of the teaching profession; the quality of public education; equity and access; and preparedness for the twenty first century. We conclude by examining how the representations of these problems may provide key insights into how imagined solutions are proposed and enacted in the future.

scholarly journals ‘A Government of Transformation’: An Analysis of the Initial Education Policy Directions of the Labour-Led Coalition Government of New Zealand 2017–2018

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Barker ◽  
Bronwyn Wood
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
First Century ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Education Equity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Equity And Access ◽  
Research In Education

© 2019, New Zealand Association for Research in Education. From the outset, the Labour-led Coalition Government of 2017 was intent on ‘transformation’. For the education sector, this was signalled immediately with the announcement of an extensive programme of review and reform initiated in their first 100 days of power. Yet, what is at the heart of the proposed changes and what were they trying to address? Drawing on Bacchi’s (Analysing policy: What’s the problem represented to be? Pearson, London, 2009) What’s the Problem Represented to Be? approach, we examine the significant problems identified by the in-coming Government through key public messages during their first 8 months (October 26th, 2017–June 30th, 2018). By analysing official discourses released by Ministers, we examine how the problems which the policies intended to address were constructed and represented to the public. Our analysis identified four main ‘problems’: the de-professionalisation of the teaching profession; the quality of public education; equity and access; and preparedness for the twenty first century. We conclude by examining how the representations of these problems may provide key insights into how imagined solutions are proposed and enacted in the future.

scholarly journals “We have never been public:” Continuity and change in the policy production of “the public” in education in England

2021 ◽  
pp. 147490412199047
Author(s):  
Matthew Clarke ◽  
Martin Mills
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Progressive Education ◽  
Central Government ◽  
First Century ◽  
Government Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
The People ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Education And Society

Recent educational reforms in England have sought to reshape public education by extending central government control of curriculum and assessment, while replacing local government control of schools with a quasi-private system of academies and multi academy trusts. In this paper, we resist reading this as the latest iteration of the debate between “traditional” and “progressive” education. Instead, we note how, despite the mobilisation of the rhetoric of the public and public education, schooling in England has never been public in any deeply meaningful sense. We develop a genealogical reading of public education in England, in which ideas of British universalism – “the public” – and inequality and exclusion in education and society have not been opposed but have gone hand-in-hand. This raises the question whether it is possible to envisage and enact another form of collective – one that is based on action rather than fantasy and that is co-authored by, comprising, and exists for, the people. The final part of this paper seeks to grapple with this challenge, in the context of past, present and future potential developments in education, and to consider possibilities for the imaginary reconstitution of public education in England in the twenty-first century.

Two Case Studies of Collaborations Between Aquariums and Research Institutions in Exploration and Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
Marcia McNutt ◽  
Robert D. Ballard
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
First Century ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Monterey Bay ◽  
Blue Water ◽  
Public Outreach ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Institutions

Aquariums and "blue water" oceanographic institutions in America have traditionally had completely separate missions, with the former concentrating on public outreach and education and the latter undertaking basic research. Recently, two new institutions, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Mystic Aquarium/Institute for Exploration (MA/IFE), were founded for the expressed purpose of bridging the gap between basic ocean discovery and public education. In both cases, the ability to bring the excitement of undersea exploration to the public has been enabled by sophisticated undersea vehicles that permit the aquarium audience to participate in the research enterprise via telepresence. The fact that the research is constantly in the public eye provides researchers with frequent opportunities to explain the importance and the relevancy of their work for the benefit of society. Despite the efforts over the past 50 years, over 95 percent of the oceans remain unknown and unexplored. This fact combined with the realization that all citizens of the twenty-first century must be well informed on the consequences of their actions on the health of this ocean planet makes it likely that such partnerships between research and educational institutions will proliferate.

scholarly journals Evidence based medicine? Access to information & medicines regulation in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Amy Hill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Medicines Regulation ◽  
Based Medicine

<p>This paper explores one very important issue in the regulatory regime for medicines in New Zealand and around the world- the deficit of information about medicines available to doctors, patients and independent researchers. Much of the information about safety, efficacy and quality of drugs is held and controlled by pharmaceutical companies and regulators. The public is entitled to this information in full.</p>

On the Developmetn of State-Public Education Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Будаева ◽  
T. Budaeva ◽  
Намсараев ◽  
S. Namsaraev
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Education Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Project Activity ◽  
Mode Of Development ◽  
Educational Potential

The article considers the questions of moving from the monopoly of the state to development of civil society, that in Russia have some features. By the expansion of the public participating in education management there are contradictions between the necessity of realization of state-public management education and absence of sufficient experience on the decline of level of alienation of education from society and effective mechanisms of decision of this task. The authors of the article consider the principal reasons and factors, hampering becoming and development of state-public management universal education. The article exposes the new approaches to the realization of joint activity of organs of state-public education management. In the article the ground of project-activity in education management approach is given, that allows to organize the activity in the mode of development, and innovations are explored, educational potential of organization is grown, the quality of its work is improved.

scholarly journals 2013 Mexico’s Education Reform: A Multi-dimensional Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-107
Author(s):  
Paul Moch Islas ◽  
Anne K. Calef ◽  
Cristina Aparicio
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
State Level ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Educational Culture ◽  
Federal Authority ◽  
New Education ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The 2013 education reform to Mexico’s education system had two main goals, one explicit, to improve the quality of education and one implicit, to reassert federal authority over the education sector. Beginning with institutional and political mechanisms that introduced evaluations to the teaching profession, the reform sought a shift in Mexican educational culture. This chapter will begin by analyzing Mexico in international and domestic contexts to understand the urgency of the reform. It will then use Reimers (2020b and 2020c) five perspectives on education change to analyze the reform and evaluate the sequence in which it was implemented. The chapter concludes by outlining the results of the reform to date and summarizing the relationship between the five perspectives. Ultimately, we argue that the initial deprioritization of technical aspects, including pedagogical and curricular ones, stymied the cultural shift towards an educational model grounded in twenty-first century competencies that the reform sought. When coupled with a limited political cycle and uneven implementation at a state level, the reform’s sequence left little time for full implementation of its more pedagogical aspects, such as the new education model, and ultimately faced dramatic reprisal from the new presidential administration.

scholarly journals Global development in the twenty-first century

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Garnaut
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
First Century ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Global Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Twenty First Century

Frank Holmes was a New Zealand leader of what my recent book, Dog Days: Australia after the Boom, calls the independent centre of the polity. He saw great value in careful and transparent analysis of the public interest, separate from any vested or partisan political interest. The success of public policy in any democracy in these troubled times depends on the strength of a strong independent centre.

scholarly journals Spending on K-12 Public Education: The Lebanese Case

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Tarek Shal
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Desk Review

The purpose of this paper was to examine the public spending on education in Lebanon, in order to make recommendations for executives to strategize this sector. This is a desk review paper that uses secondary resources, using rigorous criteria for document selection. The paper overviews the importance of spending on education and its relationship with the overall quality of education. It highlights the different factors affecting public spending peculiar to the Lebanese context, the various challenges confronting the Lebanese K-12 public education sector, and the spending of Lebanon on it. It provides recommendations for stakeholders and policy-makers on areas that require more attention in terms of spending.

scholarly journals The Underlying Indicators of Good Governance in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bui Phuong Dinh ◽  
Nguyen Thi Hoai Thu
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation ◽  
Near Future

The concept of "Good governance" was brought to the world in the 1990s in the context of increasing globalization and expanding democratization worldwide. It can be seen that the common factors needed to implement good governance include: (i) Capacity of the state - the degree of problem-solving by governments and leaders religion; (ii) Responsiveness - whether public policies and institutions meet the needs of citizens and uphold their rights; (iii) Accountability - the ability of citizens, civil society and the private sector to monitor the responsibilities of public and governmental institutions. In Vietnam, from the first decade of the twenty-first century, efforts have been made to set up indicators and measure the effectiveness of the public authority aligning to the principles of "good governance". Using data from the four sets of indicators in Vietnam namely PAR, SIPAS, PCI, and PAPI, this article reviews the process of developing the good governance’s indicators, compares the areas where each set of indicators measures and assesses the effectiveness, analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of each set of indicators, and reviews some local government efforts in using the measurement and evaluation results of the four sets of indicators to improve the quality of governance in their respective localities. The article also asserts that these four sets of indicators reflect a large part of the content to be measured according to the principle of "good governance", and presents some recommendations to improve the four sets of indicators themselves to better reflect the principles of "Good governance" in the near future.

scholarly journals Colour, Hell of a Good Thing!

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Belinda Burke
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Physical Modelling ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Residential House ◽  
Climatic Characteristics ◽  
Design Experiments

<p>Although the importance of colour as a fundamental element in architecture has heightened in literature recently, there is little research that explores the potential for its use in New Zealand. This design-led research explores how Mexican Architect Luis Barragan’s strategies in choreographing magical atmospheres through light and colour can influence contemporary architectural practice in New Zealand. Three predominant strategies are determined; coloured light, coloured latticework and planes of colour. Analogue design experiments engaging with the analysis of these strategies provoke further enquiries. This research investigates how the design of a residential house in South Wairarapa seeks integration with Barragan’s light/colour strategies from Mexico. This is influenced by a photographic and illustrated analysis of the site’s climatic characteristics and architectural context of the region, and is subsequently tested through the design processes and methodology of Barragan’s including written narratives, sketching and physical modelling. Finally, exterior and interior colour schemes are visualised through drawings that interrogate relationships between the proposed architecture and its surrounding environment and atmospheres desired. This research demonstrates one approach to designing with light and colour for New Zealand architecture to generate emotional, magical atmospheres. The findings of this research suggest that the element of contrast is important in generating the mysterious or unexpected, giving impact to the extraordinary quality of coloured moments. It further acknowledges that the public concern of colour is just as crucial as its private concern, and both must be considered with respect to the project’s individual context. It is hoped that this research will raise confidence in using colour in New Zealand as a powerful spatial tool and means to express individuality and identity. </p>

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