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"Volatility in State Spending for Higher Education focuses on how much volatility there is in the fiscal relationship between states and institutions of higher education and addresses some of the consequences of this uncertainty. The book begins with a foreword, an editor's introduction, followed by three thematic sections that focus on duration and impact on economic performance and political determinants; financing policies for predictability; and state funding unpredictability. The book should inspire future research on volatility in state support for higher education. Volatility will likely remain a perennial issue and a 'wicked' problem that will require creative and dedicated minds to manage and research"--

Chapter 1. Preparation of Teachers and Multilingual Education: Ethical, Just, and Student-focussed Practices -- Chapter 2. Critical Pre-service Intersections: Parental Engagement in EAL/D Contexts -- Chapter 3. Preparing Teachers as Multilingual Educators: Optimizing Achievement of National English Language Education Policy Objectives in China -- Chapter 4. EAL Teachers' (un)preparedness to Implement Classroom Practice for Multiliteracies -- Chapter 5. Decolonization in the Concrete: Honoring the Expertise of Local Teachers in EFL -- Chapter 6. Language-focused Feedback and Written Communication Difficulties of Multilingual Students: Improving Teacher Preparedness -- Chapter 7. The Future for Ethnic Korean Minority Education in China: A Challenge for Teacher -- Chapter 8. English Language Teacher Education for Multilingual Singapore: Responding to the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Chapter 9. Multilingualism in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL): Insights from TCSOL Teacher Education -- Chapter 10. Norms of Practices and Pre-service Teacher Education for Multilingual Mathematics Classrooms in South Africa -- Chapter 11. Teachers' Cognitions on Motivating Language Learners in Multilingual Hong Kong.

In this article, Dr. José Manuel Esteve presents the challenge for our country in a multinational political unit, as Europe hopes to be, as opposed to the variety of a state structured into Autonomous Communities. Through a review of our history, since the reign of the Catholic Monarchs to the present day, he describes specific moments in which the administration has tried to unify by law the variety of Spain, carrying out what he calls a "melting-pot policy". According to him, the process of European unification should stand upon the reinforcement of a common body of values which are able to promote a European identity and boost real unity through variety. The present day situation, which transfers to the educational field the different ways of socialization produced by a multicultural and multilingual society, contemplates new educational problems, among them the qualification of teachers to teach in a class that comprises students from different origin, the supervision and enlargement of curricular contents and the learning languages in order to improve communication between peoples. In short, he supports a multifaceted outlook on education after the acceptance of variety. ; El Doctor José Manuel Esteve plantea en este artículo el reto que supone la integración del Estado en una Comunidad política supraestatal, como la que aspira a ser Europa, frente a la diversidad de un Estado organizado en Comunidades Autónomas. A través de un repaso por nuestra historia, desde los Reyes Católicos a la actualidad, describe momentos en los que la denominada por él "política del crisol" intenta unificar por decreto la diversidad de España. En su opinión, el proceso de unidad europea deberá basarse en el fortalecimiento de un núcleo de valores comunes capaces de fomentar una identidad europea y promover una unidad real a través de la diversidad. La situación actual, que traslada a la institución escolar los diferentes modelos de socialización producidos por una sociedad multicultural y multilingüe, plantea nuevos problemas ...

Description based on: Fiscal year 1983. ; Report covers fiscal year. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Governance in Specific Higher Education Systems (3) -- M. Foroni: Governance in the Italian Higher Education System -- 1. Basic Information -- 2. Participation in the Bologna Process -- 3. System Level Governance: Parliament, Government and Other National Players -- 4. Stakeholder Involvement: Rectors Conference, Students, Staff and Employers' Organizations -- 5. Policy and Policy Instruments -- 6. Institutional Level Governance -- 7. Research Policies -- Q. A. Dang & D. C. Nguyen: Governance in Vietnamese Higher Education -- 1. Basic Information -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Number of Higher Education Institutions -- 1.3 Number of Students and Academic Staff -- 1.4 Types of Higher Education Institutions -- 2. System Level Governance -- 2.1 Central Structures -- 2.2 Other Public Structures -- 3. Policy and Policy Instruments -- 3.1 Policy -- 3.2 Legislation -- 4. Financing Higher Education and Research -- 4.1 Funding for Education (Teaching and Learning) -- 4.2 Funding for Research and Hi-Tech Parks -- 5. Institutional Level Governance -- 5.1 Organisational Structure -- 5.2 Internal Governance Structure -- 6. Ongoing and Upcoming Reforms -- L. Un & S. Sok: Higher Education Governance in Cambodia -- 1. Basic Information -- 2. System Level Governance -- 2.1 Government Structures -- 2.1.1 Competencies of the parliament -- 2.1.2 Competencies of the government -- 2.2 Other Public Structures and Participation of Stakeholders -- 2.2.1 Accreditation and quality assurance -- 2.2.2 Other public structures and mechanisms -- 2.2.3 Other stakeholder structures and participation in system governance -- 2.3 Policy and Policy Instruments -- 2.3.1 The Constitution and legislation -- 2.3.2 Policy on higher education -- 2.4 Public Funding of Teaching and Research -- 3. Institutional Level Governance -- 4. Upcoming HE Reforms

Introduction -- Social and economic transformations -- The changing nature of work -- Conceptualising the relationship between education and work -- Vocationalism, skills and employability -- Lifelong learning, learner identities and work-related learning -- Managing the transition from education to work -- Transforming educational institutions for economic gain -- Higher education, social change and shifting identities -- Conclusion.

The tail of the tail-end of the 2nd millennium has taught the
humankind two valuable lessons: democracy and the market, although
imperfect, have succeeded where other systems have failed. What is clear
is that the most successful systems are aligned to humankind's
predispositions rather than being inimical to them. Insofar as it aligns
itself with the predisposition to greed, consistently regulated
capitalism terms out to be the most efficient economic system hitherto
observed in human society. Likewise, democracy works by aligning many
people's desire for power with a governance system which on balance is
helpful to the general population, unlike various forms of
totalitarianism. But recent movements for both capitalism and democracy
in many developing countries largely do not subscribe to humankind's
predispositions, rather they appear to be a part of the headlong global
trend towards these paradigms. The reason being that the most important
ingredient, common to both recipes, is lacking in many developing
countries: that is the popular pressure and mobilisation which is
sufficiently informed of its duties and rights. This ingredient is most
important as it forces out the authoritarian rule whether, totalitarian
or 'democratic', and makes democratic governance drive the market to the
maximum benefit of society. The central thesis of this work is that this
most important ingredient is the result of an effective and efficient
system of public institutions for free and compulsory universal primary
schooling which, if the resource constraint could be overcome, ought to
be supplemented by free and compulsory secondary schooling.

"Lacan and Education Policy draws on the rich conceptual resources of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Using Lacan's four discourses Matthew Clarke offers a sophisticated critique of recent education policy and the neoliberal model of political economy within which it sits, including the ways in which education has been diminished and trivialised through the economistic and depoliticising moves of policy. Clarke articulates possibilities for thinking differently about education and education policy beyond the reductive narratives of neoliberalism. He argues that psychoanalytic theory is valuable, not so much for allowing us to see what education 'really is', but for offering insights into what prevents education from 'being', enabling us to shift our focus instead into the possibilities education offers as a space of 'becoming'. The book suggests possibilities for conceptualising and creating 'the other side' of education."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Education Policy sees 12 philosophers of education critique current and recent UK educational policies relating to higher education and faith-based education, assessment, the teaching of reading, vocational and civic education, teacher education, the influence of Europe and the idea of the 'Big Society'. Twelve philosophers of education subject elements of current and recent UK educational policy to critiqueForthright and critical, the contributors are unafraid to challenge current orthodoxiesOffers thought-provoking insights into modern education policy<