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A review essay on a book by Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (Basic Books, 2010).

AbstractEvaluation in the U.S. Department of Education declined significantly in the early 1980s. But a search for alternative management strategies and evaluation techniques has allowed the function to survive and prosper.

The overall goal of medical education is to prepare graduates who will contribute towards the improvement of health (quality of life) of the individuals and the communities they will be serving. Traditionally, a physician receives sophisticated training which focuses on bio-medical sciences, skills in diagnosis, therapeutics and clinical management. However the exposure to relevant social sciences that may prepare him/her to address the social, economic and political forces affecting health lacks in this traditional mode of education.

AbstractDo political parties approach education with different social policy aims? We argue that while parties have adopted a common language of equality as an aim of education, they draw on different conceptions of it linked to diverging social projects. To make this argument, we first normatively distinguish education as a tool for creating equal opportunity, equal outcomes, and representational diversity. We then draw on an original dataset coding the educational content in the political manifestos of the largest center‐left and center‐right party across 19 Western democracies from 1950 to present. The analysis shows that left parties emphasise more equality of outcome than rightwing parties and pay less attention to equality of opportunity, and that they associate equality‐related aims more extensively with promises of resources. These findings suggest that there remain critical differences in parties' understanding of education as a tool of social policy.

Reimagining critical ethnography -- Critical ethnography as methodological guide : some key tenets -- Working the theory (and context) in critical ethnography -- Considering ethical practices in critical ethnographic research -- Being and doing critical ethnography : ethnographic writing and field/work -- Language, race/ism, and in/equity in education : critical ethnographic approaches -- Gender, sexuality and (critical) education ethnography -- Getting lost.

In times of growing economic inequality, improving equity in education becomes more urgent. While some countries and economies that participate in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have managed to build education systems where socio-economic status makes less of a difference to students' learning and well-being, every country can do more. Equity in Education: Breaking Down Barriers to Social Mobility shows that high performance and more positive attitudes towards schooling among disadvantaged 15-year-old students are strong predictors of success in higher education and work later on. The report examines how equity in education has evolved over several cycles of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). It identifies the policies and practices that can help disadvantaged students succeed academically and feel more engaged at school. Using longitudinal data from five countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, Switzerland, and the United States), the report also describes the links between a student's performance near the end of compulsory education and upward social mobility – i.e. attaining a higher level of education or working in a higher-status job than one's parents.

En el presente artículo describimos el papel que la educación ha de desempeñar en el proceso de mejora de la calidad de vida en el mundo moderno. El enfoque específico de este artículo enfatiza el papel que la educación debe desempeñar para promover la evolución de las formas de vida democráticas como un medio para mejorar la calidad de la vida tanto personal como colectiva e institucional. La calidad de vida, al menos en lo concerniente a la conducta orientada a fines, supone elegir los valores y alcanzar con éxito los objetivos de la vida. Esto último, está relacionado con la utilización del pensamiento y la discusión crítica para realizar elecciones vitales de tipo individual y colectivo. Lo cual, a su vez, tiene que ver con la institucionalización del ideal democrático. En este sentido, el enfoque principal de nuestro trabajo aplicado trata de promover la evolución de las formas de vida democráticas como un medio para mejorar la calidad de vida en los niveles personal, interpersonal e institucional.

Advancing the mission of nursing education for a future we cannot yet fully conceive is a daunting task. The rapidly changing healthcare landscape is an exciting world of innovation, digital transformation, and accelerated knowledge creation that offers hopeful, and infinite possibilities to improve patient care, safety, and outcomes. New data suggest a continuing decline in the initial preparedness of new nurses at a time when preparation is most needed. We must adapt and embrace pedagogies relevant to a new generation of learners. In this article, we first describe the digital disruption informed by innovation moving at warp speed, catalyzing necessary and long overdue change not only in healthcare, but in how education is conceptualized and delivered. Leading and promoting the paradigm shift needed for this change is not discretionary as nurse educators strive to enhance the competency of new registered nurses. Leaders in nursing education have initiated efforts to appraise the state of the academy and find approaches to lessen the transition gap, such as competency-based education. We discuss current trends at this defining moment in nursing education, and strategies to leverage the tipping point as educators mobilize to prepare future nurses for successful collaborative artificial intelligence-infused, clinical practice.

As members of a global community, we cohabit a metaphorically shrinking physical environment, and are increasingly connected one to another, and to the world, by ties of culture, economics, politics, communication and the like. Education is an essential component in addressing inequalities and injustices concerning global rights and responsibilities. The increasing multicultural nature of societies locally, enhanced access to distal information, and the work of charitable organisations worldwide are some of the factors that have contributed to the interest in, and need for, understanding global development education. The project on which this paper reports sought answers to the question: to what extent and in what ways can a semester-long subject enhance and extend teacher education students' understandings of and responses to global inequalities and global development aid? In the course of the project, a continuum model emerged, as follows: Indifference or ignorance ➝ pity and charity ➝ partnership and development among equals. In particular, this paper reports on some of the challenges and obstacles that need to be addressed in order to enhance pre-service teachers' understandings of global development education. The study, conducted in Australia, has implications for global development education in other developed nations.

As members of a global community, we cohabit a metaphorically shrinking physical environment, and are increasingly connected one to another, and to the world, by ties of culture, economics, politics, communication and the like. Education is an essential component in addressing inequalities and injustices concerning global rights and responsibilities. The increasing multicultural nature of societies locally, enhanced access to distal information, and the work of charitable organisations worldwide are some of the factors that have contributed to the interest in, and need for, understanding global development education. The project on which this paper reports sought answers to the question: to what extent and in what ways can a semester-long subject enhance and extend teacher education students' understandings of and responses to global inequalities and global development aid? In the course of the project, a continuum model emerged, as follows: Indifference or ignorance ➝ pity and charity ➝ partnership and development among equals. In particular, this paper reports on some of the challenges and obstacles that need to be addressed in order to enhance pre-service teachers' understandings of global development education. The study, conducted in Australia, has implications for global development education in other developed nations.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on ihe Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Reviving Civic Culture -- 2 Reflections on Social Networks and Collective Action in Russia -- 3 Educational and Political Capital and the Breakthrough of Voluntary Association in Russian Karelia -- 4 The Intelligentsia and the 'Breakdown of Culture' in Post-Soviet Russia -- Part II Nationality Refrained -- 5 National Schools and National Identity in and after the Soviet Union -- 6 Ethnic Minorities in the Czech Kducation System: Before and After Transition (1945-97)1 -- 7 New Paradigms of National Education in Multi-Ethnic Russia Of Had Srimddl -- Part III Identity Matters -- 8 Ethnographical Activism as a I-orm of Civic Education: a Case Study on School Museums in North-West Russia -- 9 Gender Representation in Educational Materials in the Period of Transition in Hungary -- 10 Gender Study and Civic Culture in Contemporary Russia -- 11 Hypocritical Sexuality of the Late Soviet Period: Sexual Knowledge and Sexual Ignorance -- 12 The Struggle for the Souls of Young People: Competing Approaches to 'Spiritual' and Religious Education in Russia Today -- Pari IV Towards a Brighter Future? -- 13 The Abandoned Children of Russia -from 'Privileged Class' to 'Underclass'r -- 14 Psychological Development Programmes for Civil Society Building -- 15 The Culture of the Russian School and the Teaching Profession: Prospects for Change -- 16 Pedagogy in Transition: from Labour Training to Humanistic Technology Education in Russia -- 17 Political Aspects of Reforming the Higher Education System in Ukraine -- 18 Civic Education for Russia: an Outsider's View1 -- Index.

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Alongside constructivism, the humanistic approach is a core premise in the Good School Concept (2016), a major document on the educational policy in secondary schools in the Republic of Lithuania. However, the humanistic approach is driven by the psychological, rather than educational, perspective and does not have an educational framework. The present study seeks to explore the theoretical notion of humanism from the educational perspective. We first develop an approach to the humanistic paradigm in education as comprising five other paradigms, viz., instrumental pragmatism, social constructivism, humanism in the narrow sense, postmodernism and care ethics. We then deliver a qualitative case study of a Lithuanian sports and distance learning school, employing Stake's (1995) triangulation method, thematic analysis by Terry et.al. (2017) and elements of discourse analysis (Fairclough 1995, van Dijk 2008, Wodak and Meyer 2006). The findings of the study summarize the expectations of the participants of the educational process in light of the humanistic model proposed in the work. The proposed framework is hoped to be of interest in the research into humanism in education.

This article analyses the relationship between the politics of education and language, and armed conflict and ongoing peace process in Myanmar. It discusses the state education system, which since the military coup of 1962 has promoted the idea of the country based on the language and culture of the Bamar (Burman) majority community, and the school systems developed by ethnic armed groups which oppose the military government. Ethnic opposition education regimes have developed mother tongue-based school systems. In some cases, the Mon for example, these broadly follow the government curriculum, while being locally owned and delivered in ethnic languages; in others, such as the Karen, the local education system diverges significantly from the Myanmar government curriculum, making it difficult for students to transition between the two systems. This article explores the consequences of these developments, and how reforms in Myanmar since 2011 — including the peace process, which remains incomplete and contested — have opened the space for educational reform, and the possible "convergence" of state and non-state education regimes. Ethnic nationality communities remain determined to conserve and reproduce their own languages and cultures, adopting positions in relation to language and education which reflect broader state-society relations in Myanmar, and in particular ethnic politicians' demands for a federal political settlement to decades of armed conflict. The article concludes that sustainable resolution to Myanmar's protracted state-society conflict is unlikely to be achieved until elites can negotiate agreement on ethnic language and teaching policies.