Bridging the gap between policy and practice: Unpacking the commercial rhetoric of Google for Education

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Gender differences in mathematics outcomes at different levels of locality to inform policy and practice

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Introduction The investigation of gender differences in students’ attainment has received increasing attention but has historically failed to explain important patterns across cultures and geographies. Recent studies based on national and international surveys have shown that, in many countries, male students achieve a significantly higher mean score than females in […]

Citizenship-as-competence, what else? Why European citizenship education policy threatens to fall short of its aims

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“We have never been public:” Continuity and change in the policy production of “the public” in education in England

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Introduction Bruno Latour, in his book, We Have Never Been Modern (Latour, 1993), problematised the distinction between “nature” and “science” articulated by eighteenth century modernist thinkers, such as Boyle and Hobbes. These thinkers, he argued, deployed a process of purification and separation in relation to the discourses of nature and […]

Externalisation and structural coupling: Applications in comparative policy studies in education

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Rethink immigration policy for STEM doctorates

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 General public Domain A streamlined approach for awarding eco-friendly cards to worldwide STEM doctoral college students graduating from U.S. universities could gain American innovation and competitiveness, which include leveling the field for startups keen to appeal to this sort of remarkably competent personnel, in accordance to a new […]

Neuro-stuffed parenthood? Discursive constructions of good parenthood in relation to neuroDiscourse in Flemish social policy documents addressing parents: a case study

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Digital technologies in policy assemblages in Ireland and Norway: A visual network analysis

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Introduction Education policy is becoming more digitalized as digital technologies increasingly facilitate the real-time collection, distribution and circulation of student data required to govern education today. The education policy literature has studied the use of student data by engaging in studies of ‘governance by numbers’ – where school inspections, reform […]