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    Does Reforming the Public Financial management system reduce corruption?
    (2020-02-26) Mear, Fred; Komakech, Samuel; Mear, Anna; Ellam, Louis
    The presentation looked at the initial findings of the correlation between improvements in PFM as measured by the PEFA framework and the Corruption Perception Index. It identified some areas of high correlation and some of very little or no correlation as a starting point to discuss policy priorities
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    Doing curriculum reform: what allows expert practitioners to mediate policy enactment in Japan?
    (World Education Research Association, 2023-11-22) Bamkin, Sam
    This presentation considers the role of professional (educational/pedagogic) knowledge in the enactment of policy during neoliberal times. Education policymaking in Japan, like elsewhere, is changing. Over the past twenty years, the central government has displaced the Ministry of Education as the driver of education policy, including most recently in curriculum policy. However, in Japanese curriculum reform, professional knowledge continues to inform how policy is understood and enacted on the ground, alongside the imperative for performative enactment. My recent research, based on two years’ fieldwork in and around eight schools, questionnaire survey data, textbook databases and elite interviews, shows that expert practitioners can leverage this knowledge to mediate how curriculum policy is enacted in compulsory education. This presentation re-examines these findings from a comparative perspective to consider the particular structural mechanisms in the policymaking process and education system of Japan that facilitate the operation of professional knowledge in policy enactment, and how they are changing. It further comments on the extent to which the Japanese data questions the universality of well-established theory of ‘policy work’ (e.g. Stephen Ball and colleagues, 2012) grounded in data collected in the Anglo-American contexts.
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    Ever Fallen in Love with Marketing: Marketing in Punk, Marketing of Punk
    (Academy of Marketing, 2016-09) Wohlfeil, Markus
    Ever since it first came apparently from nowhere to shock the establishment back in the 1970s, punk has come a long way and been the subject to many popular myths, stereotypes and media imageries. Interestingly, the vast majority of those myths have actually had their origins within punk culture itself. But because punk is primarily an umbrella for a range of different, independent punk subcultures, each of those myths seems to carry very different, often contradictory meanings across those individual punk subcultures and communties. Historically, understanding the social and communal roles of popular myths and beliefs has offered researchers a meaningful lens into how members of a (sub)culture/community construct, foster and maintain their communal identity, heritage and/or moral value system. Popular myths tend thereby to understood as historical heritage with universal meanings that provide a culture/community with its communal identity. This working paper outlines the conceptual underpinnings of the researcher’s ethnographic study, whose aim it is to explore how and why popular myths are created, disseminated, interpreted, reinterpreted and adopted within different individual punk communities as part of communal identity and heritage.
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    How Curriculum Reform Happens in Japan: A Multi Layered Analysis
    (2022-11-26) Bamkin, Sam
    Education policymaking in Japan is changing. Over the past twenty years, the prime ministerial executive has taken leadership in high-level policy formulation, including curriculum policy. The Ministry of Education has turned to accountability tools to legitimise its work. And local governments have encroached on the independence of boards of education. What is less clear is how new policy structures change the work of teachers and their capacity for the professional interpretation of policy based on pedagogical knowledge of ‘classroom’ practice. Based on 2 years’ fieldwork in and around eight schools, this research examines how the reform of moral education unfolded between 2015 and 2020, from its formulation at cabinet level, to its evolution in the Ministry of Education, to its enactment in schools. The workshop will present findings on how teachers and school administrators mediate policy in the contemporary Japanese education system; and how this informs our understanding of curriculum reform and educational policymaking.
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    A Tool for Business Innovation and Transformative Growth
    (2020-02-25) Hafeez, Khalid; Hatami-Marbini, A.
    Innovation is the engine for productivity, growth and sustainability of every business. Post-Brexit Britain needs to become highly innovative and productive to compete and maintain staff retention, quality, speed, flexibility and uniqueness. Geographical constraints could limit UK companies’ capability to work with its partners to produce and deliver attractive offerings to market. This event will introduce and demonstrate a toolkit to focus on cutting-edge innovation techniques that can drive productivity and build resilience by collaborating with international partners. The speakers will explore how new knowledge can be accessed and co-created using social network platforms and technologies, how companies can measure efficiencies, improve business performance to ensure sustained competitiveness, profitability and growth of the business and the region.