Showing papers in "Journal of Education Policy in 2020"
TL;DR: The authors argue that PISA focuses too narrowly on cognitive achievement and human/knowledge capital, and the OECD has recently shifted some of its focus to student happiness, which has been criticised.
Abstract: Facing increasing critique that PISA focuses too narrowly on cognitive achievement and human/knowledge capital, the OECD has recently shifted some of its focus to student happiness. The 2017 Studen...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used big data from over 21,000,000 job adverts to explore how employers in the UK describe job requirements, with particular reference to the role of credentials.
Abstract: A major focus of sociological research is on the role of the credential as a ‘currency of opportunity’, mediating the relationship between education and occupational destinations. However, the labour mar- ket has largely remained a ‘black box’ in sociological and education policy studies. This article draws on ‘big data’ from over 21,000,000 job adverts to explore how employers in the UK describe job requirements, with particular reference to the role of credentials. It challenges existing theories premised upon the notion that higher levels of formal education determine individual (dis)advantage in the competition for jobs. Although they have different views of the relationship between credentials, opportunity and efficiency, these theories assume that credentials largely determine occupational hiring. Our analysis suggests that formal academic credentials play a relatively minor differentiating role in the UK labour market, as the majority of employer’s place greater emphasis on ‘job readiness’. This raises a number of issues for sociological and policy analysis, including the future role of credentials in the (re)production of educational and labour market inequalities. Methodologically, the article highlights how the use of big data can contribute to the analysis of education, skills and the labour market.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of discourse in educational policy as an analytic and methodological tool, theoretical frame, realm of implication, and even a foundational definition of educational policy.
Abstract: Discourse has featured in studies of educational policy as an analytic and methodological tool, theoretical frame, realm of implication, and even a foundational definition of educational policy its...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the ways in which accountability policies in public policies have a moral order, an ethical horizon, and offer a vocabulary of imagined micro-policies.
Abstract: Public policies have a moral order, an ethical horizon. They offer a vocabulary of imagined micro-policies. Using the case of Chile, this paper examines the ways in which accountability policies ar...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine a case of study-abroad mobility from a governmentality perspective, based on a critical analysis of policy texts and interviews with Iris, the author of the paper.
Abstract: Drawing on the concept of hypermobility, the paper examines a case of study-abroad mobility from a governmentality perspective. Based on a critical analysis of policy texts and interviews with Iris...
41 citations
TL;DR: In response to terrorist attacks and concerns about religious bias in some English schools, British Values (BV) curriculum policy forms part of the British Government's Counter-Te... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Framed as being in response to terrorist attacks and concerns about religious bias in some English schools, ‘British Values’ (BV) curriculum policy forms part of the British Government’s Counter-Te...
38 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a bibliometric network analysis of the two most recent schools reforms in Norway is presented, and two research questions have been pursued: First, do the government-appointed expert commission u...
Abstract: The study presents a bibliometric network analysis of the two most recent schools reforms in Norway. Two research questions have been pursued: First, do the government-appointed expert commission u...
37 citations
TL;DR: Interdisciplinary examination of the medical literature reveals the contested nature and troubled state of evidence-based medicine and what policymakers need to consider to maximise the benefits of this translation into education.
Abstract: The paradigm of evidence-based education continues to inform the development of policy in a number of countries. At its simplest level, evidence-based education incorporates evidence, often that pr...
34 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the interconnections between affect, academic work, and temporality in higher education have been studied, and the way we make sense of and relate to time changes has been examined.
Abstract: Amid growing studies of time in higher education, few have theorized the interconnections between affect, academic work, and temporality – the way we make sense of and relate to time changes – in t...
33 citations
TL;DR: The Department for Education (DfE) in England seeks to determine the actions of educationists in both the public and private sectors through the use of targeted instructive documents and white pape as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The Department for Education (DfE) in England seeks to determine the actions of educationists in both the public and private sectors through the use of targeted instructive documents and white pape...
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TL;DR: It is almost two decades since a concept of inclusion as selective segregation was proposed as an alternative to the concept of full inclusion and inclusive education was reconfigured as providing... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: It is almost two decades since a concept of inclusion as selective segregation was proposed as an alternative to the concept of full inclusion and inclusive education was reconfigured as providing ...
TL;DR: The authors explored the ways in which middle tier institutional arrangements in education, such as school districts and local authorities, are responding to New Public Management (NPM) in the context of education.
Abstract: Relatively few studies have explored the ways in which ‘middle tier’ institutional arrangements in education, such as school districts and local authorities, are responding to New Public Management...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a methodological approach that scholars in all research fields can use to develop high-quality explanatory typologies, and they argue that every research field can use this approach.
Abstract: This article contributes to the literature by proposing a methodological approach that scholars in all research fields can use to develop high-quality explanatory typologies. We argue that every ty...
TL;DR: In a radical school choice reform in 1992, Sweden's education system was opened to private competition from independent for-profit and non-profit schools funded by vouchers as discussed by the authors, and competition was expecte...
Abstract: In a radical school choice reform in 1992, Sweden’s education system was opened to private competition from independent for-profit and non-profit schools funded by vouchers. Competition was expecte...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how standards-based reforms relating to teachers and teaching are being constituted in Australia and the US and examine how federally-driven policies have been assembled in each country.
Abstract: Our aim in this paper is to examine how standards-based reforms (SBRs) relating to teachers and teaching are being constituted in Australia and the US. Our focus is not the specific impacts of these policies as enacted practices in schools or teacher training institutions, but rather the dynamics of policy production, with a specific focus on how federally-driven policies have been assembled in each country. Bringing together the notion of ‘global forms’ with the dual concepts of ‘political rationality’ and ‘political technology’ from governmentality studies, we consider SBRs as a global techno-scientific form that coheres at the level of political rationality and which can be abstracted across contexts, but which also manifests in unique place-specific assemblages of political technologies. The global form of SBRs thus represents the logics by which policymakers may attempt to align and create commonality across systems in the search for standardisation, even if this can never be fully realised in practice.
TL;DR: In an increasingly competitive environment that positions students as consumers, universities have become ever more marketised, responding to policy contexts that foreground value for money, consum consumability, and consumability as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In an increasingly competitive environment that positions students as consumers, universities have become ever more marketised, responding to policy contexts that foreground value for money, consum...
TL;DR: The administrative systems of universities attest to a shift towards more managerial forms of leadership as discussed by the authors, and strategic management was introduced in Finland in the 2000s and has been widely used in the management of universities.
Abstract: The administrative systems of universities attest to a shift towards more managerial forms of leadership. This article outlines how strategic management was introduced in Finland in the 2000s and h...
TL;DR: Widespread neoliberal approaches to education consider schools increasingly accountable for self-management and client recruitment, encapsulating economic ideologies that assume privatisation is inevitable as mentioned in this paper, which is not the case.
Abstract: Widespread neoliberal approaches to education consider schools increasingly accountable for self-management and ‘client’ recruitment, encapsulating economic ideologies that assume privatisation is
TL;DR: Artificial Intelligence has the potential to be an important part of education governance as discussed by the authors and it is already being built into everything from business intelligence platforms to real-time online testing, which can be used in education governance.
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence has the potential to be an important part of education governance It is already being built into everything from business intelligence platforms to real-time online testing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on infrastructures as heterogeneous assemblages and claim that to examine something as elusive as data infrastructure calls for an epistemological and methodological approach.
Abstract: The article focuses on infrastructures as heterogeneous assemblages. Our claim is that to examine something as elusive as data infrastructure calls for an epistemological and methodological approac...
TL;DR: The authors explores how the base Nacional Comum Curricular (national learning standards) entered the policy debate in Brazil and became the most important reform initiative of the Ministry of Education.
Abstract: This article explores how the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (National Learning Standards), entered the policy debate in Brazil and became the most important reform initiative of the Ministry of Ed...
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of school choice, per capita funding, balanced management and accountability in their public schools has been shown to increase segregation in the Norwegian public schools, and the authors point out that this has increased segregation.
Abstract: Oslo introduced a combination of school choice, per capita funding, balanced management and accountability in their public schools. Recent studies point out that this has increased segregation. In ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors point out that many countries are watching, and some are already emulating, the governance reforms in England which aim to create a "Self-Improving School System" (SIS).
Abstract: As the editors point out in their introduction, many countries are watching, and some are already emulating, the governance reforms in England which aim to create a ‘Self-Improving School System’, ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore such advocacy at the local level and explore how marginalized communities throughout the world engage in spaces of educational decision-making to advocate for equity-oriented policies.
Abstract: Minoritized communities throughout the world engage in spaces of educational decision-making to advocate for equity-oriented policies. In this article, we explore such advocacy at the local level i...
TL;DR: The authors focus on issues of validity and pay less attention to the consequences of implementation for the everyday practices of teachers and their daily practices of teaching and learning, and focus on the validity of teacher evaluation.
Abstract: Research on recently adopted methods for teacher evaluation are largely focused on issues of validity and pay less attention to the consequences of implementation for the everyday practices of teac...
TL;DR: Along with the dramatic expansion of private tutoring around the world, a significant body of literature has been produced to understand this phenomenon as discussed by the authors, and many studies consider the issue of ge...
Abstract: Along with the dramatic expansion of private tutoring around the world, a significant body of literature has been produced to understand this phenomenon. While many studies consider the issue of ge...
TL;DR: In this paper, Diem and Anjale D. Welton criticize the market-driven policies in the educational sphere implicitly, e.g., racism in public education, and propose an anti-racist educational leadership and policy.
Abstract: In Anti-racist educational leadership and policy: addressing racism in public education, Sarah Diem and Anjale D. Welton criticize the market-driven policies in the educational sphere implicitly, e...
TL;DR: In this article, a significant and instructive case of reforms design for improving education in developing countries is presented, where the authors discuss the politics of improving education quality in the developing world.
Abstract: Reformers in developing countries increasingly seek to raise education quality. Yet we know little about the politics of improving education. One significant and instructive case of reforms designe...
TL;DR: The authors pointed out that school architecture is often taken for granted both in use (where it is naturalized) and in writing on education policy (tending to feature simply as policy setting).
Abstract: School architecture is often taken for granted both in use (where it is naturalized) and in writing on education policy (tending to feature simply as policy setting.) Built policy instead points up...
TL;DR: The U.S. federal government has played a growing role in setting nationwide education policy since the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965.
Abstract: The U.S. federal government has played a growing role in setting nationwide education policy since the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965. This Act, along with the...