In 2008 the Michigan State Board of Education adopted new certification standards for teacher preparation institutions training elementary classroom teachers. Eight content areas were identified, one of which was visual and performing arts. Standard 1.5, Visual and Performing Ar…
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This reflective analysis of the Emirati public policy process (PPP) cycle and implications of uneven application of new public management (NPM) paradigms in the UAE offers insight into the way that public administrations develop, learn, evolve, and cope with new challenges durin…
Background Industrially manufactured herbal medicines (HMs) are historically popular and their consumption continues to increase. As HMs use increases, identification of adverse effects occur more frequently. In some countries' national drug regulatory authorities (DRAs), clear …
In the UK alone, over 13 million people have some form of disability which is set to increase in the future as a result of an aging population (Department for Work & Pensions 2018). While disability is extremely diverse, PWD have historically been marginalised and excluded from …
Objective: The promotion of self-management support for people with LTCs is a health policy priority across the UK (LTCAS 2008; DoH 2012). Self-management support is designed to change and improve care for people with LTCs, who form an increasing proportion of the population req…
This thesis explores tensions within UK childcare policy and welfare reform. Through an ethnographic study of policy implementation, I examine themes of government, governance and governmentality. The evidence based policy movement assumes that the nature of evidence is self-evi…
This thesis presents a qualitative multiple case study which examines the early implementation of the community matron policy in three primary care trusts in England. The community matron was a new role in nursing, introduced by the Department of Health in 2004, as part of its s…
This thesis explores the process of implementation of the FA's Charter Standard scheme in England. The football development scheme, for schools and clubs, is the first nationally led initiative to attempt instantiate structures and minimum standards of practice at the junior lev…
Decentralization is a global phenomenon that sets the stage for policy implementation in developing and transitional countries. Poverty reduction is one of the many promises of decentralization, however many studies suggest that this promise has not been achieved. Thus policy ex…
Purpose. This dissertation had 4 predominant purposes: (a) to examine and identify major barriers that may significantly impact reforming the senior care program in Nigeria, (b) to investigate the types of senior care programs that policy analysts consider promising in Nigeria, …
Are foreign policy officials responsive to policy preferences of the mass media and the public in making their decisions? That question has dogged scholars for decades but there has been little agreement among them on what is the true nature of mass media- and public opinion-for…
With the change of political circumstances in the ’90s, the Brazilian government began to create participatory democratic practices, challenging a cultural and political history of dissociation of citizens from public life. In 2018, the Brazilian Ministry of Education (BMEC) lau…
This multi-site case study uses Policy Implementation Process Examination (PIPE) and a variegated diagram to represent the evolution of interpretations in a human sense-making framework as it relates to Ohio House Bill 410, legislated in 2016. The purpose of the research is to s…
This dissertation analyzes practitioner implementation of values-laden policy in the organizational setting. Its primary focus is on understanding the processes of learning and change that take place when practitioners’ deeply held beliefs come into conflict with values-laden po…