Teachers’ Sickness Absence in Primary Schools,School Climate and Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy

Training programmes may compromise governors' ability to offer an authentic lay’ input. The article reports the views of governors interviewed about their perceptions of the need for a degree of expert status. It is tentatively suggested that training courses may be contributing both to a sense of inadequacy and to the tendency to become ‘incorporated’ into an institutionalised role. Some models of governor training are considered in relation to their possible effects.     

Gender-Aware Supervision in Marriage and Family Counseling and Therapy: How Far Have We Actually Come?

A systemic cognitive-developmental framework is used to critique how the field of marriage and family counseling and therapy supervision currently integrates issues of gender.     

Big Policies/Small World: An introduction to international perspectives in education policy

In this paper the primary emphasis is upon the general and common elements in contemporary, international education policy, but nonetheless the discussion also considers the processes of translation and recontextualisation involved in the realisation or enactment of policy in specific national and local settings. A set of generic 'problems' which constitute the contemporary social, political and economic conditions for education and social policy making are adumbrated. The emergence of ideological and 'magical' solutions to these problems is identified and the means of the dissemination of these solutions are discussed. A relationship between the global market and the marketisation of education is suggested and explored.