Rhetoric, reality and risk: further education – a political concern

Differentiation in Outcomes Focused Physical Education: Pedagogical Rhetoric and Reality

Distributed Leadership in Higher Education: Rhetoric and Reality

From rhetoric to reality.

Mary Robinson was elected the first female President of Ireland in 1990, a position she held until she resigned in 1997 to take up the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which she held until 2002. The daughter of two physicians, she holds a Master of Arts from Trinity College Dublin, a law degree from King’s Inns, Dublin, and a Master of Law from Harvard Law School. In 1...

Rhetoric and teacher education

Recent scholarship on teacher education has drawn a sharp contrast between `top}downa and `teacher-directeda approaches to instructional reform. However, this article suggests that all forms of teacher education share a common ground: they are all inescapably rhetorical in nature, aimed at the persuasion of teachers. While reformers may attempt to deny such intentions, they cannot help but empl...

University autonomy: a matter of political rhetoric?

Modern universities have a diversity of missions and tasks, probably far too many. They are not only delivering qualifi ed teaching and learning in a wide range of areas and subjects and doing research, but are also collaborating in research and development with different organizations in society outside the university. They are also expected to provide a plethora of different services in the ‘...