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Kim, Sung won; Kim, Lois Y. – Comparative Education, 2021
Despite the widespread education reform discourses attempting to alleviate high-stakes examination pressure and narrowly test-driven education systems in East Asia, none have been as systematic and drastic as the Free Year Program (FYP) recently implemented in South Korea. The FYP provides middle school students with a year-long reprieve from…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Psychological Patterns, High Stakes Tests, Program Descriptions
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Shipway, Bradley; Chaseling, Marilyn Joan – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This article reports on the experiences of teachers at a small rural school located in the North Coast region of New South Wales in Australia who participated in a school improvement project based on an approach developed over many years by David Townsend and Pam Adams in Alberta, Canada. The project involved monthly meetings between the teachers…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Balasanyan, S. A. – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
The article reports on a study of everyday university life and the academic life-world of professionals in education management in Armenia, focusing on the impact of Europeanisation on their professional identity construction. It also examines the impact of broader ideologies associated with quality assurance on the higher education provision in…
Descriptors: Social Change, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Administration
Phan, Anh-Hao Thi – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation maps the landscape of the cross-national educational transfer of American higher education in the Arabian Gulf region, with a case study of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar. It examines how and why Qatar has borrowed, and Georgetown has lent, the American model of higher education, specifically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Transfer, North Americans, Higher Education
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Tarlau, Rebecca – Comparative Education Review, 2017
This article analyzes the transfer and 15-year policy trajectory of Colombia's "global best practice" "Escuela Nueva in Brazil." This program, initially transferred to Brazil in 1997 with the help of the World Bank, was largely unknown for the first decade of its life span. Then, between 2008 and 2011, "after" the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Program Descriptions
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Waterval, Dominique; Tinnemans-Adriaanse, Marjolijn; Meziani, Mohammed; Driessen, Erik; Scherpbier, Albert; Mazrou, Abdulrahman; Frambach, Janneke – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
Numerous, mainly Anglo-Saxon, higher education institutions have agreements with foreign providers to deliver their curricula abroad. This trend is gradually making inroads into the medical domain, where foreign institutions undertake to offer their students learning experiences similar to those of the home institution. Not an easy feat, as the…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Communities of Practice, Case Studies, Learning Experience