Syllabus/achievement requirements

EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND PLANNING II

1st Part: Learning, Information Technology and Economy

a) Learning and ICT

Castells, M. : The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society. Prologue: The net and the self, 1996. Massachusetts/Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Inc. p. 1-27. (27 pp).

Coates, Hamish, Richard James and Gabrielle Baldwin: A Critical Examination of the Effects of Learning Management Systems on University Teaching and Learning, (2005) . , in Tertiary Education and Management 11, No. 1, March 2005, p 19-36, 2005 (17 pp).

Collie, S. and Alton, T.: Improving Teaching Quality and the Learning Organisation, (2004) . in Tertiary Education and Management 10, No. 2, 2004. p 139-155 (16 pp).

Daun, H. and Petrola S.: State, Market, and Civil Forces in the Governance of Education. The Cases of Sweden, France, Germany and the Czech Republic, , (2005) . in European Education, vol. 37, no. 1, spring 2005. , p 26-45 (19 pp).

Katz, R.N.(: Competitive Strategies for Higher Education in the Information Age, 1999. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. In Katz, R.N. & Associtates (1999) Dancing with the Devil – Information Technology and the New Competition in Higher Education. Chapter 2. (22 pp).

MacKeogh, K.: National Policies on the Cost-Effective Use of New Technologies in Life Long Learning,, (2002) . in European Education, vol. 33, no. 4, winter 2001-2002. , p 41-55 (14 pp).

Ness, H.: Documenting Life Long Learning: Discussion of a German Initiative, (2005) . in European Education, vol. 33, no. 2, summer 2005. p 49-62 (13 pp).

Tait, A. & R. Mills : The Convergence of distance and conventional education. Some implications for policy, 1999. London: Routledge. in Tait, A. & R. Mills (1999) The Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education, Chapter 11. (8 pp).

Welle-Strand, A. & Thune, T.: E-learning policies, practices and challenges in two Norwegian organizations, (2003) . in Evaluation and Program Planning 26, 2003. p 185-192 (8 pp).

b) Economics

Becker, G.S. : The Economic Way of Looking at Life. , 1992. Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. (27 pp) .

Heyneman, S.: The history and problems in the making of education policy at the World Bank 1960-2000, (2003). in International Journal of Educational Development, May 2003, Vol. 23 Issue 3. p 315-338 (23 pp).

Kirkwood-Tucker, T.: Toward a European Model of Higher Education, (2004) . in European Education, vol. 36, no. 3, fall 2004. p 51-69 (18 pp).

Levin, H.M. : Mapping the Economics of Education – An Introductory Essay, 1989. In Educational Researcher No 16, 1989, pp 13-16. (4 pp).

Levin, H.M. : The Economics of Educational Choice, 1991. In Economics of Education Review, Vol. 10. No. 2, pp. 137-158. 1991. (21 pp).

Little, B.: Policies towards Work-Focused Higher Education – Are they Meeting Employers’ Needs?, (2005). Tertiary Education and Management 11, No. 2, 2005. p 131-146 (15 pp).

Neave, G. : Accountability in education, 1987. Oxford: Pergamon Press. In Psacharopoulos, G. (1987) (Ed.) Economics of education – Research and studies. pp 70-79. (4 pp).

Psacharopoulos, G. : Returns to education: an updated international comparison, 1981. Aldershot: E. Elgar Publishing Ltd. In Blaug, M. (Ed.) (1992) The economic value of education: Studies in the economics of education. Chapter 4. (21 pp).

Reschovsky, A.: Financing Schools in the New South Africa, (2006) . , in Comparative Education Review, vol. 50, no.1. p 21-45 (24pp).

Romer, P. : Two strategies for Economic development: Using ideas and producing ideas, 1992. In Summers, L.H & S. Shah (1992) Annual conference on development economics (Supplement to the World Bank Economic Review and The World Bank Research Ovbserver), pp 63-91. (28 pp).

Teixeira, P.: A Portrait of the Economics of Education 1960-1997, (2000). in History of Political Economy, Winter 2000, Vol. 32 Issue 4. p 257-287. (31 pp).

Winkler, D.R. : Fiscal Decentralization and Accountability in Education: Experiences in Four Countries, 1994. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers. in Carnoy, M. & J. Hannaway (Eds.) Decentralisation and School Improvement. Chapter 5. (20 p).

c) Social Capital and Education

James S Coleman : Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. , 1988. American Journal of Sociology 94 (Supplement). Supplement pages: p 95-120. (26 pp).

Field, John: Social Capital, 2002. London: Routledge. Pp. 11 through 51. (41 pp).

Recommended reading:

Putnam, Robert : Bowling alone. The collapse and revival of American community, 2001. NYC: Simon and Schuster..

Field, John : Social Capital, 2002. London: Routledge. Other chapters .

Baron,Stephen, Field, John and Schuller, Tom (eds): Social Capital: Critical Perspectives. , London: Oxford University Press..

Hooghe, Marc and Stolle, Dietlind (eds) : Generating Social Capital. Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspectives., 2003. New Yokr: Palgrave Macmillan.

Dasgupta, Partha and Serageldin, Ismail : Social Capital. A Multifaceted Perspective. , 2000. Washington: World Bank..

Lauglo, Jon : ) Social Capital Trumping Class and Cultural Capital? Engagement with School Among Immigrant Youth., 2003. London: Oxford University Press. In Stephen Baron, John Field and Tom Schuller (eds), Social Capital: Critical Perspectives. Pp 142-167 .

Castells, M. : The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture. Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society. , 2000. Massachusetts/Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Inc.

2nd Part: Management of Education and Learning

a) Conceptual Frames

Bolman, L.G. & Deal, T.E. (Eds.) : Reframing Organizations. Artistry, Choice and Leadership. , 1997. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc.. Part One: Making Sense of Organizations, pp 3-34. (31 pp).

Burrell, G. & G. Morgan : Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis – Elements of the Sociology of Corporate Life., 1992. Aldershot: Ashgate. Introduction and Part I: In Search of a Framework, pp viii-37. (42 pp).

Foster, W. : Administration of Education: Critical Approaches, 1994. London: Pergamon Press. In: Husén, T. and N. Postlewaithe (Eds.) Encyclopaedia of International Education, pp 60-67. (7 pp).

McLean, M.: Leadership in Education: Comparative and Contextual Perspectives, (1997) . in Tjeldvoll, A. & Nagy,T. P. (Eds.) Democracy or Nationalism – Education in Post-Communist Europe. Oslo: University of Oslo Institute for Educational Research Report No. 3, 1997. p 25-45 (20 pp) .

Reynolds, D. & C. Teddie : Reflections on the Critics and beyond them, 2001. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Vol. 12, NO 1, 2001 pp 99-115. (16 pp).

b) Leadership

Dimmock, C. & Walker, A. : Educational Leadership – Culture and Diversity, (2005) . London: Sage, 205 p. (205 pp).

Tjeldvoll, A., Welle-Strand, A. & Wales, C.: School Leadership Training under Globalisation: Comparisons of the UK, the US and Norway, (2005). in Managing Global Transitions, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2005. p 23-49 (26 pp).

c) Higher Education

Altbach, P.: Private Higher Education: Themes and Variations in Comparative Perspective, (1999) . Chapter 1 in Altbach, Philip (1999) (Ed.) Private Prometheus: Private Higher Education and Development in the 21st Century. Boston: Center for International Higher Education School of Education, Boston College. (15 pp).

Altbach, Philip : Globalisation and the University: Myths and Realities in an Unequal World, (2004) . in Tertiary Education and Management Vol.10, No. 1, p 3-25, 2004. (22 pp).

d) Modes of Decentralisation in Education

Required reading:

Lauglo, Jon : Forms of Decentralization and their Implications for Education. , 1995. Comparative Education, Vol 31 (no 1, 1995). (33 pp)..

Recommended reading:

Bray, Mark : Decentralization of Education: Community Financing, 1996. Washington DC: World Bank. .

Watson, Keith, Modgil, Celia and Modgil, Sohan : Power and Responsibility in Education. Volume III in series on Educational Dilemmas: Debate and Diversity. , 1997. London: Cassell. .

Bolman, L.G. & Deal, T.E. (Eds.) : Reframing Organizations. Artistry, Choice and Leadership., 1997. San Fransisco: Jossey-Bass Inc. .

3rd Part: Evaluation of Education and Learning

Carless, D.: Prospects for the implementation of assessment for learning, (2005) . in Assessment in Education, Vol. 12, No. 1, March 2005. p 39-54 (15pp).

Deakin Crick, R., Broadfoot, P. and Claxton,G. : Developing an Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory: the ELLI ProjectDeveloping an Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory: the ELLI Project, (2004). in Assessment in Education, Vol. 11, No. 3, November 2004. p 247-272 (25 pp).

Goldstein, H.: International comparison of student attainment: some issues arising from the PISA study, (2004). in Assessment in Education, Vol. 11, No. 3, November 2004. p 319-330 (11 p).

Grisham, D., Ferguson,J. & Brink, B.: Mentoring the mentors: student teachers’ contributions to the middle school classroom, (2004). , in Mentoring and Tutoring, Vol. 12, No. 3, November 2004. p 307-319 (16 pp).

Gvirtz, S. & Larripa, S.: Profiles of Educational Assessment Systems Worldwide: National evaluation system in Argentina: problematic present and uncertain future, (2004). in Assessment in Education, Vol. 11, No. 3, November 2004. p 349-364 (15 pp).

Harvey, L. & Newton, J.: Transforming Quality Evaluation, (2004). , in Quality in Higher Education, Vol. 10, No. 2, July 2004. p 149-165 (16 pp).

Hoi, S. & Yu,L.: Chronic Consequences of High-Stakes Testing? Lessons from the Chinese Civil Service Exam, (2006). in Comparative Education Review, vol. 50, no. 1. p 46-65 (19pp).

Middlehurst, M: Quality Enhancement for Accountability and Transformation, 1997. Tertiary Education and Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1997, pp 15-24. (9 pp).

Neave, G. : The Evaluative State Reconsidered, 1998. European Journal of Education, Vol. 33, No. 3, 1998, pp 265-283. (18 pp).

Power, M. : The Audit Explosion, 1997. Oxford: Oxford University Press.. In: The Audit Society, pp 1-14. (14 pp).

Schmidtlein, F.: Assumptions Commonly Underlying Government Quality Assessment Practices, (2004) . in Tertiary Education and Management 10, No. 4, 2004. p 263-285 (22 pp).

Swan, U.: International Benchmarking and National Quality Assessment Systems: The Case of Sweden, (2004) . in Tertiary Education and Management 10, No. 3, 2004. p 173-192 (19 pp).

Tan, K. : Does student self-assessment empower or discipline students?, (2004). ? in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol. 29, No. 6, December 2004. p 651-662 (11pp).

Thune, T. & Welle-Strand, A.: The Ambiguous Quality Agenda in Norwegian Higher Education Policies, (2002) . in European Education, vol. 34, no. 2, summer 2002. p 74-92 (18 pp).

Trow, M. : Trust, markets and accountability in higher education: a comparative perspective, 1996. Higher Education Policy, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 309-324. (15 pp).

Wahlén, S.: Does National Quality Monitoring Make a Difference?, (2004) . In Quality in Higher Education,Vol. 10, No. 2, July 2004. p 139-147 (8 pp).

Weiss, C. H. : Evaluation. Methods for studying programs and policies, 1998. New Jersey 07458: Prentice Hall . Chapters 1-5, 8, and 12-13. (195 pp).

Woodhouse, D.: The Quality of Quality Assurance Agencies, (2004) . in Quality in Higher Education, Vol. 10, No. 2, July 2004. p 77-87 (10 pp).

Yorke, M.: Formative Assessment in Higher Education: Its Significance for Employability, and Steps towards its Enhancement, (2005). in Tertiary Education and Management 11, No. 3, 2005. p 219-238 (19 pp).

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