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51	The discontinuity between education policy and implementation in secondary school education in Zambia : 1964-1998 Sakyi, Kwesi Atta. 11 1900 (has links) This dissertation focuses attention on the trends in secondary school education globally, with the Zambia backdrop providing a platform for a comparative study of the global scenario. Research results reveal that analysis of education planning and the process of policy formulation may be hinged on different ideological, economic, technological and social premises. Shifts in regimes and ideologies have often left behind paradigm shifts and discontinuities in the educational sectors of countries. The processes of globalisation and internal accommodation of national forces have conjoined to impact heavily on educational policies. Be it in commandist Russia or neo-liberal USA, there. has always been the felt need to use education planning as a leverage to score multiple points, including the gaining of national competitive advantage on the frontiers of knowledge and intelligence. There is strong evidence in this dissertation to suggest that exhaustive policy analysis is cardinal to the successful implementation of education policies in Zambia, more especially in this post-modern age of information sharing / Public Administration and Management / M. Admin. (Public Administration) Secondary school policy-making Participation Implementation Decentralisation Privatisation Cost-sharing Donor-aid dependency Time and spatial policy models Globalisation Comparative capita selecta 379.6894 Education, Secondary. Education Education and state Education and state -- Zambia Educational planning Educational planning -- Zambia Educational change Educational change -- Zambia
52	Out of the classroom closet: why only some gay and lesbian teachers are out Lecky, Duane Joseph 19 August 2009 (has links) Canada and British Columbia have legislation in place to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination based on their sexual orientation. A growing number of BC school districts have policy protecting gays and lesbians. However, some gay and lesbian teachers still hide their sexual orientation. Organizational theory recognizes that formal rules do not define the organization. In-depth interviews with 13 gay and lesbian teachers indicate that they would rather not maintain their classroom closets; but that they needed to know that they would be safe coming out. The methodology followed the tradition of narrative inquiry by collecting stories. Initial recruitment was through email, print, and word-of-mouth advertising. An on-line form was used to filter prospective participants to include urban, rural, Muslim, Catholic, closeted, and politically active participants. The great silence with respect to gays and lesbians in the workforce, paired with a history of negative messages needs to be offset by the frequent and ubiquitous dissemination of positive messages. gay lesbian homosexuality gay teacher coming out narrative narrative inquiry Canada British Columbia BC sexual orientation discrimination school policy Organizational theory In-depth interviews qualitative recruitment techniques on-line form anonymous participants anonymous interview queer gay rights

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The discontinuity between education policy and implementation in secondary school education in Zambia : 1964-1998

Out of the classroom closet: why only some gay and lesbian teachers are out