Quality education and the role of the teacher in Fiji: mobilising global and local values

Crossley, Michael W; Vaka'uta, Cresantia Frances Koya; Lagi, Rosiana; McGrath, Simon; Thaman, Konai Helu; Waqailiti, Ledua

doi:10.1080/03057925.2017.1338938

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Arguably, small states have a particular relationship to policy borrowing and a particular position in relation to bilateral and international policy advice (Crossley et al 2017). With a population of 5.4 million (National Records of Scotland 2017), Scotland is not technically a small state by the most common definition, which specifies a sovereign state of less than 1.5 million (Commonwealth Secretariat).…”

Section: Policy Borrowing and Transnational Influences In Small Statesmentioning

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Of myths and monitoring: learner-centred education as a political project in Scotland

Britton

Schweisfurth

Slade

2018

Comparative Education

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Prevalent constructions of best practice at the global level include learner-centred education as an emancipatory and holistic approach across the life course. However, competing discourses of standardisation and preparation for the workforce are also at play. As a small state constructing an image and role for itself on a global stage, Scotland draws aspirationally on learner-centredness in its current Curriculum for Excellence governing education in schools, and in the Statement of Ambition for Adult Education, aligning it with apparently indigenous ideas of good practice in education while distancing it from prevalent patterns in neigbouring England. However, in operationalising these, competing agendas and versions of best practice interrupt these policy narratives and prove difficult to resist. Using a combination of document analysis, observations of consultation processes, and interviews with policy actors, this article explores these tensions in policy content and process.

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Section: Policy Borrowing and Transnational Influences In Small Statesmentioning

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Of myths and monitoring: learner-centred education as a political project in Scotland

Britton

Schweisfurth

Slade

2018

Comparative Education

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“…Outlook of the teacher is an important constraint to the educational organization, for organization's growth as well as for imparting quality education for the welfare of nation and organization [8,9]. The paper would consider following headings, bifurcated as:…”

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Mental Outlook of Teachers Towards Their Job

Jain¹

2018

Edu.sust.Societ

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Teachers play very important role in the growth of nation. Destroying any nation does not require the use of explosives it only requires decline in the quality of their education system. The quality education is closely related to the integration of any country. The disintegration in the field of education is the disintegration in the growth of the county, which can be directly affected by the mental outlook of the teachers. Outlook of teachers depends on various constraints that may include job satisfaction, working conditions, job security, motivation and autonomy. These factors directly affect the outlook and attitude of teachers towards their work. Teacher's positive outlook has been found one of the very important variables related to positive teaching which is required to satisfy the students and impart quality education. The present study is conducted to pick out the constraints that affect the mental outlook of private teachers positively towards their job. This research was based on 260 employees belonging private teaching sector that includes professors, associate professors and assistant professors from different organizations of Delhi/NCR. Data analysis was conducted through descriptive and inferential statistics, correlation and regression analysis.

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“…Unusual, but not unknown. For example,Crossley et al (2016) report that primary student involvement in teacher performance appraisal was recently introduced in Fiji. 4 Ketema (a pseudonym, meaning 'town' in a Tigrigna) is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable.…”

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Radical student participation: lessons from an urban government primary school in Tigray, Ethiopia

Mitchell

2017

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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Recent policies in Ethiopia put students at the heart of school improvement through structures for peer leadership and school-level consultation, evaluation, and decisionmaking. This article draws on an ethnographic study of a government school in Tigray, Ethiopia to explore how the participation and influence of students is achieved and mediated by structures and processes in school. Three key contexts of student participation are explored: positions of peer leadership (monitor, 'one-to-five' network leader), public evaluation sessions (gim gima), and the Parent Student Teacher Association (PSTA). Recommendations are made for sharing and strengthening democratic practices and for future research.

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Quality education and the role of the teacher in Fiji: mobilising global and local values

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

Of myths and monitoring: learner-centred education as a political project in Scotland

Of myths and monitoring: learner-centred education as a political project in Scotland

Mental Outlook of Teachers Towards Their Job

Radical student participation: lessons from an urban government primary school in Tigray, Ethiopia

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