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UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2020
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) prepares the "Global Report on Adult Learning and Education" ("GRALE") every three years in order to strengthen understanding of 'where we stand' as a global community, and to address the growing need for youth and adult education. The present report draws on data from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Adult Learning, Adult Education
Rust, Val D., Ed.; Dalin, Per, Ed. – 1990
This book is an outgrowth of an international seminar held in Bali, Indonesia in 1986 entitled "Improving the Quality of Teaching in the Developing World: Alternative Models." The book contains essays written by 20 authors and coauthors from 12 different countries and is divided into five sections, plus a preface. The focus of section 1,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Educational Change
Engineering Education, 1989
This special section includes 15 articles which examine trends in cooperative research, compare Japanese practices to see what the U.S. can learn from economic competition, and review an innovative trans-national continuing education effort in Europe. Several model programs involving companies, universities, and government agencies are discussed.…
Descriptors: College Science, Comparative Education, Continuing Education, Cooperatives
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Bagley, Donna M. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1993
Recommends using teacher vacations to help students learn about other countries and cultures. Asserts that visiting schools and classrooms can have useful professional development results. Includes a list of classroom activities that can be based on teacher vacations. (CFR)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Early Childhood Education
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Bespal'ko, V. P. – Russian Education and Society, 1996
Compares and contrasts the need for educational standards in the United States and Russia. Argues that both systems burden their students with an excess of peripheral and inconsequential material in order to satisfy outdated pedagogical objectives. Praises American efforts at creating national standards but questions their applicability to Russia.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Education, Educational Development, Educational Improvement
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Sato, Nancy; Paine, Lynn; Snowball, Diane – 1995
The four papers presented here address teacher development from an international viewpoint. In "Professional Development and Standards" (Linda Darling-Hammond) it is suggested that U.S. educators engage in new kinds of collaborations with universities, and it proposes a shift from information transmittal to "co-construction" of…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Comparative Education, Cooperative Programs