John A Codd
Biographic Data
| ID | 771446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Codd |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Codd |
| SIGNATURE | CODD J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Education Policy: Globalization, Citizenship andDemocracy
Providing an international perspective on education policy, and of the role and function of education in the global economy this text covers the major topics of central significance in education and the sociology of education
Languages, scripts, and the environment: Factors in developing concepts of print
Preschool children bilingual in English and Hebrew were investigated for their understanding of concepts of print by means of two tasks. In the first, children had to understand that a printed word did not change its meaning if it moved to a new location. In the second, children had to make judgments about word length and ignore the size of the named objects. Previous research had shown bilingual French-English and Chinese-English children to exc…
Equity and Choice: The paradox of New Zealand educational reform
Recent educational reforms in New Zealand have been deeply paradoxical in their concurrent pursuit of both equity and choice as social goals. Curriculum reform has been primarily concerned with equity, whereas the restructuring of educational administration has been concerned with increasing choice. The conflicting ethical frameworks have produced a tension between substantive policies justified in terms of social justice and correlative procedur…
Neo‐Liberal Education Policy and the Ideology of Choice
This chapter argues that the of choice became a major challenge to educational administrators and managers committed to equality of access and opportunity. Recent educational reforms in a number of countries have been promoted on the basis that they will reduce centralized bureaucratic structures for the governance and provision of education and give people more individual choice. The chapter draws on recent work of Claus Offer to examine the mac…
The construction and deconstruction of educational policy documents
This article begins with a critique of the traditional technical‐empiricist approach to policy analysis in which official documents issued by agencies of the state are interpreted as expressions of political intention, that is as proposed courses of action to be discussed by the public before being implemented as official policy. It is argued that this traditional approach to policy is based upon idealist assumptions about the nature of language …
The Concept of Educational Criticism
The construction and deconstruction of educational policy documents
This article begins with a critique of the traditional technical‐empiricist approach to policy analysis in which official documents issued by agencies of the state are interpreted as expressions of political intention, that is as proposed courses of action to be discussed by the public before being implemented as official policy. It is argued that this traditional approach to policy is based upon idealist assumptions about the nature of language …
Neo‐Liberal Education Policy and the Ideology of Choice
This chapter argues that the of choice became a major challenge to educational administrators and managers committed to equality of access and opportunity. Recent educational reforms in a number of countries have been promoted on the basis that they will reduce centralized bureaucratic structures for the governance and provision of education and give people more individual choice. The chapter draws on recent work of Claus Offer to examine the mac…
Languages, scripts, and the environment: Factors in developing concepts of print
Preschool children bilingual in English and Hebrew were investigated for their understanding of concepts of print by means of two tasks. In the first, children had to understand that a printed word did not change its meaning if it moved to a new location. In the second, children had to make judgments about word length and ignore the size of the named objects. Previous research had shown bilingual French-English and Chinese-English children to exc…
Equity and Choice: The paradox of New Zealand educational reform
Recent educational reforms in New Zealand have been deeply paradoxical in their concurrent pursuit of both equity and choice as social goals. Curriculum reform has been primarily concerned with equity, whereas the restructuring of educational administration has been concerned with increasing choice. The conflicting ethical frameworks have produced a tension between substantive policies justified in terms of social justice and correlative procedur…
The Concept of Educational Criticism
The construction and deconstruction of educational policy documents
This article begins with a critique of the traditional technical‐empiricist approach to policy analysis in which official documents issued by agencies of the state are interpreted as expressions of political intention, that is as proposed courses of action to be discussed by the public before being implemented as official policy. It is argued that this traditional approach to policy is based upon idealist assumptions about the nature of language …
Equity and Choice: The paradox of New Zealand educational reform
Recent educational reforms in New Zealand have been deeply paradoxical in their concurrent pursuit of both equity and choice as social goals. Curriculum reform has been primarily concerned with equity, whereas the restructuring of educational administration has been concerned with increasing choice. The conflicting ethical frameworks have produced a tension between substantive policies justified in terms of social justice and correlative procedur…
Neo‐Liberal Education Policy and the Ideology of Choice
This chapter argues that the of choice became a major challenge to educational administrators and managers committed to equality of access and opportunity. Recent educational reforms in a number of countries have been promoted on the basis that they will reduce centralized bureaucratic structures for the governance and provision of education and give people more individual choice. The chapter draws on recent work of Claus Offer to examine the mac…
Languages, scripts, and the environment: Factors in developing concepts of print
Preschool children bilingual in English and Hebrew were investigated for their understanding of concepts of print by means of two tasks. In the first, children had to understand that a printed word did not change its meaning if it moved to a new location. In the second, children had to make judgments about word length and ignore the size of the named objects. Previous research had shown bilingual French-English and Chinese-English children to exc…
Education Policy: Globalization, Citizenship andDemocracy
Providing an international perspective on education policy, and of the role and function of education in the global economy this text covers the major topics of central significance in education and the sociology of education
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Liberalism (3 works)