scholarly journals Why Intelligence Is Missing from American Education Policy and Practice, and What Can Be Done About It

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Maranto ◽  
Jonathan Wai
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
K 12

To understand why education as a field has not incorporated intelligence, we must consider the field’s history and culture. Accordingly, in this cross-disciplinary collaboration between a political scientist who studies institutions and a psychologist who studies intelligence, we outline how the roots of contemporary American Educational Leadership as a field determine its contemporary avoidance of the concept of intelligence. Rooted in early 20th century progressivism and scientific management, Educational Leadership theory envisions professionally run schools as “Taylorist” factories with teaching and leadership largely standardized, prioritizing compliance over cognitive ability among educators. Further, the roots of modern education theory do not see the intelligence of students as largely malleable. Hence, prioritizing intelligence is viewed as elitist. For more than a century, these assumptions have impacted recruitment into education as a profession. We conclude with ideas about how to bring intelligence into mainstream schooling, within the existing K-12 education institutional context. We believe that better integration of intelligence and broader individual differences research in education policy and practice would lead to more rapid advances to finding evidence based solutions to help children.

Is it only ‘What works’ that ‘Counts’ in New Knowledge Economies? Evidence-based Practice, Educational Research and Teacher Education in Australia

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Blackmore
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Nation States ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Economies ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Research In Education

Recent texts on globalisation and education policy refer to the rapid flow of education policy texts producing or responding to common trends across nation states with the emergence of new knowledge economies. These educational policies are shaping what counts as research and the dynamics between research, policy, and practice in schools, creating new types of relationships between universities, the public, the professions, government, and industry. The trend to evidence-based policy and practice in Australian schools is used to identify key issues within wider debates about the ‘usefulness’ of educational research and the role of universities and university-based research in education in new knowledge economies.

scholarly journals “Modern” Education Finance: How It Differs from the “Old” and the Analytic and Data Collection Changes It Implies

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Guthrie
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Education Finance ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Private Market ◽  
Data Elements ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The U.S

This article contends that a new concept of education finance has emerged in response to substantial alterations in the U.S. education policy environment. The major distinction between modern and old is that the latter was principally concerned with arrangements of inputs in K-12 schooling. The former, modern-era education finance, is concerned with relationships of inputs to schooling outcomes. This modern education finance paradigm provokes a need for (1) research and data extending into the operations of education itself, not just financing; (2) far more fine-grained information than now exists regarding education inputs, throughputs, and outputs; (3) cohesive concepts for linking these data elements with one another to better understand their interactions; (4) an expanded set of outcome measures; (5) information about how previously public sector, dominant-education offerings interact with expanded private market conditions; and (6) better linkage between K-12 and postsecondary data and analyses.

scholarly journals Editors' Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander W. Wiseman ◽  
C. C. Wolhuter
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
International Education ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Comparative And International Education ◽  
Community Of Researchers ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

The inaugural issue of FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education begins a new chapter in the scholarly and professional discussion of comparative and international education research, policy, and practice. Comparative and international education research has become increasingly isolated from educational policymaking as well as school- and classroom-level decisionmaking as the amount and diversity of research in the field has grown. FIRE is an international, peer-reviewed publication, which seeks to bridge this gap by promoting interdisciplinary scholarship on the use of internationally comparative data for evidence-based and innovative change in educational systems, schools, and classrooms worldwide. FIRE provides an open source and widely accessible platform for disseminating research on education from multiple cultural, organizational and national perspectives. To introduce FIRE to the community of researchers, policymakers, and educators this introduction provides an overview of the journal

scholarly journals Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: Predicting What Will Work Locally

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 1045-1082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn E. Joyce ◽  
Nancy Cartwright
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Randomized Controlled Trials ◽  
Implementation Science ◽  
Controlled Trials ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Improvement Science ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
What Works

This article addresses the gap between what works in research and what works in practice. Currently, research in evidence-based education policy and practice focuses on randomized controlled trials. These can support causal ascriptions (“It worked”) but provide little basis for local effectiveness predictions (“It will work here”), which are what matter for practice. We argue that moving from ascription to prediction by way of causal generalization (“It works”) is unrealistic and urge focusing research efforts directly on how to build local effectiveness predictions. We outline various kinds of information that can improve predictions and encourage using methods better equipped for acquiring that information. We compare our proposal with others advocating a better mix of methods, like implementation science, improvement science, and practice-based evidence.

scholarly journals ENGLISH AS A MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN INDONESIAN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION: Theory and reality

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Imam Khasbani
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Informational Technology ◽  
Education Theory ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds

The globalization phenomenon marked by the flow of people movements, the advancement of informational technology, and the shrinking price of transportation has brought people around the world into one global community. Comprised by people from diverse linguistic backgrounds, this community sees the need to use a common language to bridge the communication gap. With a long-established economic and political power, English comes to the forefront as a global lingua franca. With its growing and pervasive influence, the need to learn English has never become more apparent. This need is often translated by government into language-in-education policy. This paper, to start with, will observe how language policy and globalization build a causal relationship. In the section that follows, language-in-education policy in Indonesian context will be presented. The following part will move on to discuss the use of EMI in Sekolah Berstandar Internasional (SBI)-International Standard School in Indonesia. In the end, a reflection and conclusion of EMI in Indonesia context will be discussed. In doing so, this paper employs literature study approach to explore the EMI practice in Indonesian schools. All relevant information was collected from several sources such as books and journal articles. The information was then utilised to build on discussions on existing theoretical framings, language policy and globalization, and on language-in-education policy and practice in Indonesia.

Documental analysis of educational public policy: foundations of Paul de Bruyne's quadripolar approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
ROSEMARY LOPES SOARES DA SILVA
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Concepts And Categories ◽  
Research In Education

The present study seeks to explain the techniques and procedures, the concepts and categories with which the interpretation of the object studied, that is - documents related to the High School  Technical Professional Education Policy - implemented in Bahia / Brazil, specifically, the reference regarding Paul de Bryne’s quadripolar approach (1977), which provide the theoretical-methodological density of the object studied in relation to the epistemological, theoretical, technical and morphological poles. In this perspective, it is agreed with Gamboa (1987), in the sense that, the accomplishment of a research is not the fulfilment of ‘methodological ritualism’ with a ‘theoretical fad’ in order not to repeat what commonly happens in research in education, in progressively more intense way, of eclectic attempts that randomly collect techniques, methods and theoretical references without a clear understanding of the epistemological foundations and the philosophical implications of the different paths of knowledge.

scholarly journals What is that’s going on here? A multidimensional time concept is foundational to framing for decision making in situations of uncertainty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Raia ◽  
Lezel Legados ◽  
Irina Silacheva ◽  
Jennifer B. Plotkin ◽  
Srikanth Krishnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Cultural Dominance ◽  
K 12

AbstractSTEM disciplines are the dominant culture in K-12 education. With its study of organs and diseases that afflict patients’ bodies, Western evidence-based medicine is seen and understood in the modern cultural paradigm as a science and as the practice in which a subject, the doctor, acts on an object; the patient’s body—a dominant culture in the patient’s journey. However, with the continually evolving high-technological and medical knowledge, life-saving therapeutic options are life-changing. They can range from changes in the diet, requiring structural and cultural changes in family life, to changes related to the experiences of learning to live tethered to a machine that is partly inside and partly outside one’s body or with somebody else’s heart. In this article, we show how competing needs to personalize care for the patient as a person forcefully emerge in response to evidence-based medicine’s global cultural dominance. We highlight two fundamental issues emerging in decision-making processes: (1) Framing evidence-based knowledge, uncertainties of the course of the disease and options, and (2) working with different, equally important, and often at odds conceptions of time in the care for the Other. Through the longitudinal analysis of moment-to-moment interactions in high-tech medicine encounters of a patient, his family, and the team caring for them, we show how framing and different conceptions of time emerge as issues, are profoundly interconnected, and are addressed by participants to care for a patient confronting existential decisions.

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