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Flarr Pages #65: The Role Of Teachers In Russian Society, Darima Budaeva
Flarr Pages #65: The Role Of Teachers In Russian Society, Darima Budaeva
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I would like to speak about the role of a teacher in the Russian society for the last 20 years. I will tell you about positive and negative events which have been taking place in Russian educational system since 1980's.
Why Does Policy Fail? Understanding The Problems Of Policy Implementation In Pakistan - A Neuro-Cognitive Perspective, Sajid Ali
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
Education policy in Pakistan, as in other developing countries, faces the challenge of poor implementation. The article explores the history of education policy in Pakistan and describes the conventional accounts of policy failures. It particularly highlights the issues of unclear goals, political commitment, governance, centralisation, resources and foreign aid. Generally, it is assumed that overcoming these conventional challenges will result in better policy outcomes. Although this is partially true, Spillane, Reiser and Reimer (2002) direct our attention to the cognitive factors that play a critical role in policy implementation. They argued that implementing agents try to make sense of policy …