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The first section of "Semantic Web and Education" surveys the basic aspects and features of the Semantic Web. After this basic review, the book turns its focus to its primary topic of how Semantic Web developments can be used to build attractive and more successful education applications. The book analytically discusses the technical areas of architecture, metadata, learning objects, software engineering trends, and more. Integrated with these technical topics are the examinations of learning-oriented topics such as learner modeling, collaborative learning, learning management, learning communities, ontological engineering of web-based learning, and related topics. The result is a thorough and highly useful presentation on the confluence of the technical aspects of the Semantic Web and the field of Education or the art of teaching. The book will be of considerable interest to researchers and students in the fields Information Systems, Computer Science, and Education

The context -- The Nauiyu experience of colonisation: Truth-telling as historical waves -- Nauiyu's cultural colonisation: Truth-telling with Dadirri -- Nauiyu empowerment: Intergenerational voices and stories -- Nauiyu empowerment: Owning our solutions -- Truth-telling and the Ancient University -- Postlude: Mermaid dreaming, murals, moving forward.

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This paper briefly examines the context-specific paths and policies of neoliberalism and neoconservatism and the resistance to their depradations. While calling for activism with micro-, meso- and macro-social and political arenas, the paper focuses on activity within formal education institutions. It suggests a series of measures- a socialist Manifesto for education, for discussion. It concludes with a call to action for teachers and education workers (and others) to be "Critical Educators," Resistors, Marxist activists, within and outside official education.

The history of higher education is often described and understood to be one of evolution. The story generally goes that the long history of higher education persists along a more or less unbroken line of progress and development, finally culminating in the forms we have today. However, this understanding eliminates or softens the struggles and conflicts that gave rise to the various institutional forms that higher education takes on in a given period and elides the economic, social, and political issues that gave rise to particular forms of education. I tell a different story based on a survey of primary and secondary texts regarding the history of higher education in the United States. I specifically focus on the development and founding of Research Universities as an institution to conserve and protect the emerging professional class in the 19th century. My research shows that reform of existing institutions is generally futile without the prior founding of new institutions that force the existing ones to reform. All institutional forms are the products of class conflict as modes of production undergo transformation - so long as the existing forms generally meet social expectations, there is no need to for substantive reform. When these social expectations are not met, however, new forms must be sought. These social expectations are contested within and beyond existing institutions by students, faculty, staff, administration, and community voices. This combustible mix has created the institutions we have today and will create new ones in the future.

Across the world, a number of long-term trends - globalization, marketization, managerialism - are now impacting on national education policies. Here, Mike Bottery shows how, paradoxically, these forces are making education both more centralized and more fragmented. In this magisterial study of educational policy and practice, he shows the dangers this creates and, in response, how to create a more humane and democratic education system

International audience ; Engagé depuis un demi-siècle dans un processus de décomposition-recomposition, le système éducatif français traverse une crise, qu'illustre la dégradation de ses résultats dans les comparaisons internationales. Sur ce sujet capital pour l'avenir des individus, des entreprises et des territoires, l'ouvrage apporte une vision complète, ordonnée et stimulante. Plutôt que de focaliser sur quelques aspects fragmentaires du système ou des réformes, il met en perspective l'ensemble des problèmes essentiels. Fondé sur une analyse rigoureuse et étayé par des données précises, il formule des propositions constructives qui, sur chacun des principaux sujets à l'agenda politique, combinent les exigences de continuité et de renouveau.La pluralité des points de vue exprimés enrichit l'ouvrage afin d'alimenter la réflexion du citoyen. Toutes les contributions s'inscrivent cependant dans une approche générale commune : l'éducation vue comme un bien commun essentiel dont la vocation non marchande est à préserver ; la centralité de l'exigence d'égalité.Cet ouvrage est, après L'action publique dans la crise (2012), L'internalisation des missions d'intérêt général par les organisations publiques (2015), et Quel modèle d'Etat stratège en France ? (2016), le quatrième réalisé sous l'égide de la commission scientifique du CIRIEC France pour la collection « Economie publique et économie sociale » des PURH. La palette des auteurs est riche d'universitaires reconnus, de responsables institutionnels, d'acteurs du système éducatif et de représentants de la société civile : Denis Adam, Philippe Bance, Elisabeth Bance-Caillou, Didier Bargas, Roland Berthilier, Jean Cassaigne, Angélique Chassy, Fabrice Coquelin, Michel Cosnard, Marc Debène, Marc Douaire, Daniel Filâtre, David Flacher, Frédéric Forest, Christian Forestier, Jacques Fournier, Hugo Harari-Kermadec, Isabelle Harlé, Philippe Hugon, André Hussenet, Aziz Jellab, Jean-Pierre Lavignasse, Félicien Leclair, Igor Martinache, Nathalie Mons, Jean-Marc Monteil, Léonard Moulin, Liliana Moyano, Pascal Petit, Patricia Pol, Bruno Poucet, Bernard Pouliquen, Yannick Prost, Cécilia Rikap, Catherine Robert et l'équipe de l'association l'Anthropologie pour tous, Paul Santelmann, Michèle Sellier, André Tiran et Bernard Toulemonde.

International audience ; Engagé depuis un demi-siècle dans un processus de décomposition-recomposition, le système éducatif français traverse une crise, qu'illustre la dégradation de ses résultats dans les comparaisons internationales. Sur ce sujet capital pour l'avenir des individus, des entreprises et des territoires, l'ouvrage apporte une vision complète, ordonnée et stimulante. Plutôt que de focaliser sur quelques aspects fragmentaires du système ou des réformes, il met en perspective l'ensemble des problèmes essentiels. Fondé sur une analyse rigoureuse et étayé par des données précises, il formule des propositions constructives qui, sur chacun des principaux sujets à l'agenda politique, combinent les exigences de continuité et de renouveau.La pluralité des points de vue exprimés enrichit l'ouvrage afin d'alimenter la réflexion du citoyen. Toutes les contributions s'inscrivent cependant dans une approche générale commune : l'éducation vue comme un bien commun essentiel dont la vocation non marchande est à préserver ; la centralité de l'exigence d'égalité.Cet ouvrage est, après L'action publique dans la crise (2012), L'internalisation des missions d'intérêt général par les organisations publiques (2015), et Quel modèle d'Etat stratège en France ? (2016), le quatrième réalisé sous l'égide de la commission scientifique du CIRIEC France pour la collection « Economie publique et économie sociale » des PURH. La palette des auteurs est riche d'universitaires reconnus, de responsables institutionnels, d'acteurs du système éducatif et de représentants de la société civile : Denis Adam, Philippe Bance, Elisabeth Bance-Caillou, Didier Bargas, Roland Berthilier, Jean Cassaigne, Angélique Chassy, Fabrice Coquelin, Michel Cosnard, Marc Debène, Marc Douaire, Daniel Filâtre, David Flacher, Frédéric Forest, Christian Forestier, Jacques Fournier, Hugo Harari-Kermadec, Isabelle Harlé, Philippe Hugon, André Hussenet, Aziz Jellab, Jean-Pierre Lavignasse, Félicien Leclair, Igor Martinache, Nathalie Mons, Jean-Marc Monteil, ...

This thesis examines the ways in which the role of the National People's Congress (NPC) has evolved within the political system of the People's Republic of China (PRC), as well as the implications for the formulation and deliberation of educational policy. This research reported herein compared the revision of the PRC's Compulsory Education Law, which the National People's Congress' Standing Committee (NPCSC) adopted in 2006, with the Compulsory Education Law adopted in 1986, with special reference to the education finance issues underlying the country's compulsory education provisions. Underlying this research is an attempt to identify and understand new governance emerging in China. The findings of a careful study of documents and data obtained from in-depth interviews suggest that the NPC played a qualitatively different role in the 2006 revision of the Compulsory Education Law than in the original. First, in this revision, where necessary, the NPCSC and its working committees provided a legal platform that was used for negotiation, bargaining, and compromise among ministries of the Central People's Government and local people's governments. Second, the NPC was used as a way to hold the latter accountable to the former on this particular issue. Third, through the platform provided by the NPCSC and its working committees, the NPC became a key actor in deliberating on, formulating, and monitoring the finance-related policies in the 2006 revision. In the aggregate, as this thesis argues, this constitutes a fundamentally different legal approach to formulating these policies. The emphasis is now placed on legally and mutually binding agreements between the Central and local people's governments, and hence on the implementability (可操作性) of finance-related policies based on a clear division of responsibility among the parties concerned. This change in legal approach would render a different model of policy implementation and monitoring, with a relative tightening of control by both the State Council (SC) and the NPC over local administrations' power to organize and administer China's educational system. Based on the findings presented in Chapters five and six, this research refined a new institutional approach to depicting policy-making in contemporary China. As the Chinese polity becomes more complex, the dynamic relationship between the NPC and the SC must be redefined in light of changes in the distribution of decision-making power between the two. It is argued in this thesis that the NPC's substantial involvement in the relationship between the Central and local people's governments not only indicates changes in the dynamics of the institutional relationship among the central legislature and the Central and local people's governments, but also reflects changes in the modality of governance adopted by the Chinese Communist Party. Finally, this thesis argues that regulation-oriented concept of governance, rather than a general concept of governance initially developed in the West, may offer a better understanding of new governance emerging in China. ; published_or_final_version ; Education ; Doctoral ; Doctor of Philosophy

Is the intergenerational educational link due to nature or nurture? In order to answer this dilemma, this paper identifies the effect of parental education on their offspring?s schooling attainment using a discontinuity in the parental educational attainment. The discontinuity stems from changes in the minimum school leaving age legislation which took place in the Seventies in Britain. This strategy identifies the effect of parental schooling only for parents with a lower taste for education and may not reflect the general social returns of parental education. However, since policies are more likely to target children at risk of not maximising their educational potential, the estimates are of interest. Contrary to recent evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children?s schooling achievements when focusing on natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children?s education. In most cases, the endogeneity of parental education is rejected. These estimates suggest substantial social returns to education for same-sex parent. The estimates are robust to the introduction of additional controls for income, labour force participation, fertility and neighbourhood quality, indicating that the effect of parental education is direct.

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