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Teacher education policy and professionalism: A personal review of teacher education policy research KU Leuven
Expressions of agency within complex policy structures : science teachers' experiences of education policy reforms in Sweden Ghent University
We explore the experiences of school science teachers as they enact three linked national curriculum and assessment policy reforms in Sweden. Our goal is to understand teachers' differing responses to these reforms. A sample of 13 teachers engaged in 2 interviews over a 6-9-month period. Interviews included exploration of professional background and school context, perceptions of the aims of the policy reforms and experiences of working with ...
How does Europe matter for higher education change?: a study about changes of policy and organization in higher education Ghent University
This study presents an analysis of the role of European policy initiatives (e.g. the Bologna Process) in policy change and organizational adaptation in higher education in the form of three scientific articles and an extended abstract. The empirical setting is comprised of: (a) three countries of the former Yugoslavia (Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia) and (b) two faculties that are part of flagship universities in these countries (the University of ...
Government policy on science education in Uganda: a glass ceiling for women's access to higher education Ghent University
The paper assesses the Ugandan policy on science education and its implications for girls’ access to higher education. The rationale behind this policy was to build capacity in the field of science in Uganda. Consequently, science subjects were made compulsory in schools, and 75% of the Government scholarships to public universities made science based. We demonstrate that this has created a “glass ceiling”: it has put girls at a disadvantage by ...