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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 Universiteit Gent
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 Universiteit Gent
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 Universiteit Gent
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 ...
Higher education policy change in the European higher education area : divergence of quality assurance systems in England and the Netherlands Universiteit Gent
Using policy discourses to open up the conceptual space of farm education : inspiration from a Belgian farm education network Universiteit Gent
Europeanization, policy transfer or domestic opportunity? Comparison of European impact in higher Education policy Universiteit Gent
Teacher professionalism in Flemish policy on teacher education. A critical analysis of the Decree on Teacher Education (2006) in Flanders (Belgium) KU Leuven
This article uses the new Decree on Teacher Education in Flanders, Belgium, as a case study to critically examine the changes in the conception of teacher professionalism in education policy. In this examination, the focus is on the ‘form of problematisation’(Foucault) that is enacted in the texts of the Decree. It will be argued that the Decree reflects the movement from a profession-oriented to a market-oriented form of problematisation of ...