scholarly journals Visites d’orientació i d’avaluació realitzades per l’Agència de Qualitat de l’Educació a Xile: significats atorgats per directius d’escoles públiques.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Bravo Cuevas
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
National Agency ◽  
School Directors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Interpretative Approach

Through its quality assurance laws, Chile’s National Agency for Quality of Education (Agencia de Calidad de la Educación) is responsible for guiding and evaluating the country’s state schools and promoting a process of continuous improvement in public education. To this end, the Agency visits schools and analyses the work they do using various quality assurance instruments. This article uses qualitative methodology and a comprehensive-interpretative approach to examine how school directors have responded to the Agency. The results indicate that school directors do not consider the Agency to have recognised those aspects of school management that are conditioned by the social vulnerability of the communities schools serve, and that its evaluation criteria remain excessively standardised. The article concludes that, in order to substantially improve the Chilean education system, the government needs to show a greater level of commitment and the Agency needs to work more closely with the schools that make up the public education system.

scholarly journals Evaluation of policy in the vocational education system revitalization in Indonesia: Examining the teaching factory readiness of the industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadetta Quinta Pradipta ◽  
Fajar Bambang Hirawan ◽  
Safendrri Komara Ragamustari
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Productive Aging ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mutual Advantage ◽  
The Government

A future forecast for 2030-2040 predicts that Indonesia will face a demographic bonus, in which the number of a productive aging population is greater than the unproductive age population. Graduates are expected to compete for a job on the national and international levels. It is a challenge where the Indonesian government began to enforce revitalization towards industries to collaborate with schools, and industries are expected to contribute to the implementation of the teaching factory, as both can contribute a mutual advantage in the long run. This research aims to illustrate the Indonesian government’s progress, starting from 2016-2019, on revitalizing the vocational education system. This research highlights a qualitative research approach with a micro-level case study, using the teaching factory implementation parameter in VHS Suryacipta to find industries readiness based on their perspectives, expectations, and challenges. The findings indicate the government effort has successfully improved the revitalization program. However, it still lacks field implementation. VHS Suryacipta still lacks collaboration follow-up with the industries, and the social mores of Karawang traditional society be the main factor behind the high unemployment rate. Other factors are the industries’ capacity for employment, confidentiality aspect, misperception between industries and local government. Industries find difficulties to match with government agenda, and this situation revealed that industries are not ready for collaboration.

scholarly journals Cannabis cultivation as a factor influencing scholastic performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 20-46
Author(s):  
Yassin MEKLACH ◽  
Abderrahmane MERZOUKI
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Education System ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
National Education ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
National Education System ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Precarious Situation

The secondary school performance of Ghomara’s students (coastal area of Chefchaouen province, Rif Mountain, Morocco) is deeply influenced by the cultivation of cannabis practiced by many Ghomarian families. To highlight this relationship, a field study was conducted with students, their parents, and other stakeholders through the adoption of a quantitative and qualitative sociological approach. It then appears that most of the students, especially boys, from cannabis families had annual averages assessment marks (AAM) less than 10/20. These marks do not allow them to continue their schooling. In addition, other factors are added to aggravate the already precarious situation, such as the need for manpower to carry out family farming activities, the social reluctance towards education, the inadequacy of education system to the labour market and the mistrust of the local population to the reforms of the national education system recently proposed by the government.

scholarly journals How COVID-19 has Affected Operations & Funding Relating to Social Enterprises in Birmingham

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S M Nazmuz Sakib
Keyword(s):  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Market Risks ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Management Changes ◽  
The Impact

Social enterprises are very common in Birmingham having the largest concentrations of social enterprises in the United Kingdom. With the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the operations and management of social enterprises in Birmingham has been greatly affected. This study seeks to analyse the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the operations and funding of social enterprises in Birmingham UK. In order to achieve this, the study is going to carry out a qualitative methodology in order to analyse the impact Covid-19 has had on social enterprises. The research is going to select relevant stakeholders through a non-purposive sampling criteria identifying individuals who have direct interest in the functioning of social enterprises. The relevant stakeholders will be expected to respond to semi structured interviews that are structured to evoke responses relevant to this area of research. The research realized that Social enterprises in Birmingham are a critical player in the economy of UK with many individuals depending on the social enterprise industry. In addition to that, the study realised that the Covid-19 pandemic exposed social enterprises to various financial and market risks. Moreover, social enterprises were forced to make a change in their organizational structure through cost management changes and offering alternative services. However, the government came in support through provision of grants and funding to boost the social enterprise economy.

scholarly journals Exploring the Social and Emotional Representations Used by the Elderly to Deal With the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amaia Eiguren ◽  
Nahia Idoiaga ◽  
Naiara Berasategi ◽  
Maitane Picaza
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Free Association ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Emotional Representations ◽  
Age Range ◽  
North Of Spain

Spain has become one of the European epicenters of coronavirus (COVID-19), a virus that particularly affects the elderly, since this group accounts for the majority of hospitalized cases and has the highest mortality rates. Therefore, the aim of this research is to understand how elderly people represent and emotionally cope with COVID-19 during the days when the pandemic emerged in Spain. Using a qualitative methodology, a free association exercise elicited by the word “COVID-19” was completed by 115 participants (age range: 60–85 years) from the North of Spain. Lexical analysis was used to analyze the content. The results revealed that the government and the mass media are criticized for failing to communicate a clear message, and for giving out information that is both insufficient and contradictory. However, participants are clear that it is essential to follow the guidelines of the scientists and doctors, which are represented as credible sources. However, when the state of alarm and the lockdown of all citizens was declared, most of the participants represented the risk as being associated with the elderly and the pandemic became something that might also affect their families. Due to these circumstances, negative emotions appear such as fear, nervousness, uncertainty, restlessness, and insecurity. Feelings of solitude and loneliness also emerged, and these are represented as being linked to death. These results indicate the need for governments to manage the current situation with the elderly by placing greater emphasis on social and inclusive policies to help alleviate the possible effects of the pandemic and the lockdown.

scholarly journals Political Communications in the Public Sphere Student Protest in Indonesia 2019-2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-241
Author(s):  
Erik Ardiyanto
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
Political Communications ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Public Sphere

The government and the parliament have decided to pass problematic bills, such as the Corruption Eradication Commission Bill (RUU KPK), the Criminal Code Bill (RUU KUHP), and the Omnibus Law (RUU Cipta Kerja) into laws. The reasons behind the passage of the bills irto laws are to make bureaucracy easier and facilitate foreign investment inflows to Indonesia. However, the decision-making process failed to involve elements of the community, such as academics, workers, working class, press, and related stakeholders. Consequently, students staged rallies to protest against the passage of the bills into laws in 2019 – 2020. This researchuses an approach qualitative methodology with a critical paradigm. The goal of critical theory is to change a reality that is always unbalanced and dominated.This research tries to encourage change towards a better society and emancipations. The data analysis technique comprises analysis of information sources from the mass media and analysis of research documents. The results of this study find that students had two strategic political communications during the protest. First, the social media movement sent hash tagged messages such as #Reformasidikorupsi #Gejayanmemangil and #Mositidakpercaya. Second, student staged demonstrations in front of the Presidential Place and the House of Representatives Building. When the government and parliament conspire  with oligarchs to make policies to maintain power, then  conflicts of interest with society, and  student protests will be inevitable.  As a result, the students have declared a motion of no confidence for parliament in a non-parliamentary participatory democratic system.

scholarly journals MEMAHAMI PERAN MASYARAKAT DAN PEMERINTAH DALAM KEMAJUAN MUTU PENDIDIKAN DI INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
I Nyoman Temon Astawa
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Education Students ◽  
The Government

<p><em>The development of the quality of education in Indonesia should be done together not only for the government and educators but to the community, because the community has an important role to achieve a goal of educationquality. In fact in the field of our education system fully devolved public education students or learners to teachers. This can be caused by a lack of public understanding of the importance of the role of the community in education.</em></p>

scholarly journals A kisebbségi iskolaügy Balázs Ferenc tevékenysége alapján 1938–1944 között

DÍKÉ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-107
Author(s):  
Patrícia Dominika Niklai
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Language Education ◽  
School Buildings ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education System ◽  
The Social

Ferenc Balázs served as a rapporteur of minority education directly under the administration of the Ministry of Religion and Education between 1938 and 1944. Almost the whole area of Transdanubia (so-called ’Dunántúl’) belonged to his competence. His task was to observe the introduction of the unified education system, then to monitor the transition to full native language education from 1941. There have been many obstacles to both of the systems. In addition to these, he had to take into account the activity of the Volksbund, which acted decisively; Balázs was able to handle these situations objectively based on the documemted events. He examined hundreds of schools, the results were regularly reported to the Ministry. He did not only deal with the effectiveness of the national education system in a narrow sense, but also with issues related to public education in general: the condition of school buildings, deficiencies in equipment, the social and health status of children, the training of teachers. Moreover he has been involved in major events affecting the day-to-day running of schools, such as secret ballots prior to the introduction of full native language education, inspection of the language skills of teachers, supervising the preparation of curriculum and syllabus, but for example, he also translated the text of the prayer used in teaching to German.

scholarly journals Contemporary Social Work Practice: The struggles of transforming yesterday’s professional skill set

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Barbara Neale
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Social ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
The Government

Social work is a practice-based profession that is underpinned by the principles of social justice and the promotion of empowerment. It has two key aims; to enhance the wellbeing of vulnerable people through the application of relationship-based practice and to carry out the government commissioned safeguarding duties of local authorities that are informed by law. In order to meet these dual aims, social workers need to apply a body of knowledge, skills and qualities to their work that will enable them to meet the diverse needs of vulnerable people living within the local authority urban and rural communities. Within this study, I argue that the knowledge, skills and qualities have become compromised and this has subsequently impacted on the social work profession. I consider the tensions that have arisen between the values and duties of the social work profession and successive government agendas since the 1970s, in respect to the standards and expectations of statutory social work practice. These tensions relate to both the substantial cuts to the funding of the services in which the social work profession is expected to carry out its duties and responsibilities and qualifying and practicing social workers being deemed as “ill-equipped” with the necessary knowledge, skills and qualities to carry out their statutory duties. I argue that the sequence of government interventions and the findings within more recent serious case reviews such as the tragic loss of life of Victoria Climbie (2000) have failed to consider the political regime in which social work is practiced. I consider, that as a consequence of this, relationship-based practice has been compromised in favour of a government-led administrative processes as a result of a growing culture of fear and blaming social workers for failings in practice. I argue that social workers are victims of "epistemic injustice", a concept of prejudicial injustice that rises against someone in their capacity as a knower. Through the application of qualitative methodology, I will draw on the voices of 12 social workers from a range of qualifying pathways in order to explore how social workers themselves understand these tensions and what knowledge, skills and qualities they consider are critical to carryout out contemporary statutory social work practice.

scholarly journals The (ir)resistible acceleration of digital education. The emergence of the blended school form in a state of education emergency

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Paolo Landri
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Current Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private And Public

This article focuses on the recent acceleration of digital education triggered by the Covid19 pandemic. Protective measures, particularly the social distancing, translated into an institutional shock for the standard form of schooling. By drawing on a summary of current investigations on the topic (Brehm, Unterhalter & Oketch, 2021; Grek & Landri, 2021), the article describes how swift digitalization has reinforced the entanglement of public education into private owned and commercial platforms and paved the way to the emergence of the blended school form. The instabilities of the current process of institutional repair are underlined together with the risk of increasing unbalanced private and public partnership in the education system, and/or returning to the standard form of schooling in the future post-pandemic scenario.

The Seduction of Hyper-Surveillance: Standards, Testing, and Accountability

2020 ◽  
pp. 0013161X2091229
Author(s):  
Alejandra Falabella
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
School Management ◽  
Educational Quality ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Analysis

The idea of a hyper-surveillance state that devolves school management to the private sector and local governments, but, at the same time, evaluates, inspects, and sanctions schools in the name of “educational quality and equality,” has been advocated by diverse sectors, right and center-left, conservative and liberal, pro-privatization, and pro-public education. It is a seductive policy. This article is based on the case of Chile, which in recent decades has consolidated a performative school market model. The study is based on an examination of official speeches and policy documents (a total of 84 documents), from the germination of the model in 1979 through to 2011 when the “Quality Assurance Education System” law was passed. Following Foucault’s studies in governmentality, the analysis not only aims to understand the policies that led to the creation of the hyper-surveillance state in education, but also seeks to examine the policy rationale that made these transformations desirable. The research analysis is also intended to contribute to a broader understanding of the spread of testing and accountability policies around the world.

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