Choix de l'école ; Education ; Langue ; Minorité ; Nationalisme ; Politique ; Russes ; Ukraine
This research aimed to delineate the nation-building project in education and the response of the Russians and Russophone Ukrainians in post-Soviet Ukraine. The study deals with two central questions : (1) What kind of nation-building policies did
the national authorities introduce in the field of education in the post-Glasnost era and (2) How do the local Russians and Russophone Ukrainians react to the current nation-building policies in education (i.e. in terms of school choice, language use
Any advice is welcome isn’t it?” : neoliberal parenting education, local mothering cultures, and social class
Classe sociale ; Culture locale ; Education ; Education des parents ; England ; Enseignement primaire ; Géographie sociale ; Ménage ; Néolibéralisme ; Royaume-Uni ; Rôle de la mère
Education ; England ; Household ; Neo liberalism ; Primary education ; Social class ; Social geography ; United Kingdom
the attitudes of individual mothers to parenting classes, and the success of neoliberal policy implementation in diverse socioeconomic neighbourhoods. It concludes by emphasising the importance of geographical research into newly emerging forms of education
; the value of engaging with the subjects of neoliberal educationpolicy because their attitudes influence its implementation in practice; and the need to set educational provision in its wider geographical context, as this can shape the success of policies
This paper explores the attitudes of parents of different social class positions to parenting education, in particular sociospatial English contexts. It reveals the importance of local class-based cultures of mothering in influencing both
delivered in and through educational institutions.
Nation-building, language and education. The geography of teacher recruitment in Ireland, 1925-55
Education ; Enseignement ; Gaélique ; Identité culturelle ; Irlande ; Langue ; Nationalisme ; Système éducatif
Cultural identity ; Education ; Ireland ; Language ; Nationalism ; School system ; Teaching
The paper examines how the Irish language emerged as one of the foundations of Irish identity and how the education system became the cornerstone of the state's language policy. Nation-building is treated as a dynamic process where views of national
identity are contested and debated before particular state policies are adopted.
Afrique du Sud ; Education ; Etablissement scolaire ; Inégalité sociale ; Politique de l'éducation ; Système éducatif ; Western Cape
Education ; Education system ; Educational establishment ; Social inequality ; South Africa
After considering the global context of educational restructuring the paper focuses on the relatively wealth province of the Western Cape in context of national policy. The legacy of residential segregation and the national policy of allowing
schools to charge fees are found to be major constraints on the removal of educational inequality. Little upgrading of African schools is apparent and inequalities remain remarkably wide. - (AJC)
Local control and financing of education: a perspective from the American state judiciary
Administration locale ; Culturel ; Décision ; Education ; Enseignement ; Etats-Unis ; Finance ; Rôle de l'Etat ; Système scolaire
Cultural studies ; Decision ; Education ; Finance ; Local administration ; School system ; State control ; Teaching ; United States
Local control of education in the United States today is more myth than reality. The American judiciary continues to justify its decisions concerning educational governance on the grounds of local control. Most states fund education through
Local politics and the demand for public education
Demand ; Education ; Finance ; Local government ; Local policy ; Model ; Public expenditure ; Public sector ; United States of America ; Virginia ; Wage inequality
Collectivité locale ; Demande ; Dépenses publiques ; Education ; Etats-Unis ; Finance ; Inégalité des revenus ; Modèle ; Politique locale ; Secteur public ; Virginia
The paper uses a political fragmentation index to calculate how political power affects educational spending in Virginia. The methodology allows the comparison of the distribution of political power and considers political fragmentation. Using
a demand for local public goods model, it is found that the interest-group pressures dominated by the primary beneficiaries increase educational spending while higher income and a larger percentage of African-Americans in the population reduce educational
Allemagne ; Allemagne RDA ; Brandenburg ; Cohésion territoriale ; Education ; Gouvernance ; Région périphérique ; Sachsen ; Territoire
Brandenburg ; Education ; German Democratic Republic ; Germany ; Governance ; Peripheral region ; Saxony ; Territory
Brain drain in Eastern Germany and increasing governance paradoxes related to the outcomes of post-socialist peripheralization, new approach to educationalpolicy in Saxony and Brandenburg. - (IfL)
Gender and politics of scale : the Christian Right, sex education, and community in Vista, California, 1990-1994
California ; Christianity ; Community ; Education ; Local policy ; Teaching ; United States of America ; Value system
California ; Christianisme ; Communauté ; Education ; Education sexuelle ; Enseignement ; Etats-Unis ; Politique locale ; Système de valeurs ; Vista
Vista has been the site of a heated struggle over who would control public education - the Christian Right or so-called secular humanists. The Christian Right gained control of the school board from 1992 to 1994 by stressing the moral authority
The Granger-causality between income and educational inequality : a spatial cross-regressive VAR framework
Educational level ; Employment ; Europe ; European Union ; Regional disparities ; Wage
to educational inequality and vice versa, and interregional income and educational externalities are relevant to this causality. This finding raises potentially interesting economic policy implications.
This paper tests the causal processes between income and educational inequality within regions of the European Union, using a spatial cross-regressive VAR framework. The results show that there is a heterogeneous causality from income inequality
Competitiveness ; Education ; Governance ; Health policy ; Local policy ; Partnership ; Public policy ; United Kingdom ; Urban administration ; Urban policy
Compétitivité ; Education ; Gestion urbaine ; Gouvernance ; Partenariat ; Politique de la santé ; Politique locale ; Politique publique ; Politique urbaine ; Royaume-Uni
The A. examines the different US preschool programs targeting the poor Blacks in the 1960’s. He shows how the discipline of early childhood education cohered around the term “disadvantaged child”, in turn influencing the War on Poverty policies
, including the basis of Head Start preschool education. He also investigates, through the Sesame Street TV program, how surplus populations became determined and demarcated, as early as three years old. He concludes by questioning how televised preschool
La charte éducative comme instrument de planification et de gestion
Education ; Education system ; Educational establishment ; Management ; Policy ; Portugal ; School facilities ; Spatial organization ; Teaching ; Territorial planning ; Territoriality ; Territory
Aménagement du territoire ; Charte éducative ; Education ; Enseignement ; Equipement scolaire ; Etablissement scolaire ; Gestion ; Organisation de l'espace ; Politique ; Portugal ; Système éducatif ; Territoire ; Territorialité
Les chartes éducatives, en vigueur depuis 2000, relèvent de la compétence des communes qui doivent les inclure dans leurs Plans Directeurs Municipaux. Par leur système d'organisation et leurs phases respectives d'implantation, elles sont
susceptibles de s'adapter graduellement au processus de décentralisation - territorialiser une politique éducative et développer l'autonomie des établissements scolaires. Elles constituent un instrument dynamique de planification et de gestion intégrant des
Globalising higher education and cities in Asia and the Pacific
Australie ; Bandar Sunway ; Corée du Sud ; Education ; Enseignement supérieur ; Etudiants ; Hong Kong ; Hô Chí Minh-Ville ; Intégration sociale ; Malaisie ; Melbourne ; Migration ; Mobilité ; Mondialisation ; North Island ; Nouvelle-Zélande
Australia ; Education ; Globalization ; Higher education ; Ho Chi Minh City ; Hong Kong ; Malaysia ; Melbourne ; Migration ; Mobility ; New Zealand ; North Island ; Racism ; Seoul ; Social integration ; South Korea ; Students ; Taipei ; Taiwan
provision in Ho Chi Minh City ;6-Making space for an international branch campus: Monash University Malaysia ; 7-‘Educity imaginaries’? Escaping mobile policy imaginaries to reimagine educational futures in Auckland ; 8-Victims or profiteers? Issues
Dans ce numéro spécial consacré à la mondialisation de l'enseignement supérieur et des villes en Asie et das le Pacifique, on trouvera les articles suivants : 1-Globalising higher education and cities in Asia and the Pacific ; 2-Opportunities
and tensions in the process of educational globalisation: The case of Hong Kong ;3-Cities and the lives of university academics ; 4-The university's place in Asian cities ; 5-Assessing participation in cross-border higher education in cities: Foreign education
of migration, racism and violence among Indian students in Melbourne ; 9- Social networks, cultural capital and attachment to the host city: Comparing overseas Chinese students and foreign students in Taipei ;10- Globalising higher education in and through
urban spaces: Higher education projects, international student mobilities and trans-local connections in Seoul.
Urban policy : the victory of form over substance ?
Community ; Competition ; Local policy ; Partnership ; Social policy ; United Kingdom ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urban policy
given added emphasis to form and structure at the expense of social policies for poverty, education, health, dependency and unemployment in the cities.
Looking at urban regeneration or inner-city policy from the point of view of a social policy analyst, one is struck by how much of the literature on the subject originates with geographers and how much this seems to have coloured the debate. It has
[b1] Dep. of Social Policy and Social Science, Univ., Egham, Royaume-Uni