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Wilfred Carr – Routledge Research in Education, 2025
This concise, digestible book shows how the cultivation of reason became the defining aim of western education, and critiques how this aim has been eclipsed in recent decades by the neoliberal system of mass schooling imposed by the state. Chapters outline succinctly the history of western education and its origins in Ancient Greece, demonstrating…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, Educational Practices, Abstract Reasoning, Educational History
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Nozomi Sakata; Nkanileka Loti Mgonda – Comparative Education Review, 2024
Amid the global surge of learner-centered pedagogy (LCP) as a "universal panacea," this article proposes an alternative pedagogical framework in Tanzania encompassing (1) historically nurtured pedagogies, (2) currently valued pedagogies, and (3) globally promoted LCP. Using the comparative case study (CCS) approach and the capability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Centered Learning, Educational Development, Educational Policy
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Bin Liang; David Moltow; Stephanie Richey – History of Education Review, 2024
Purpose: The aim of this article is two-fold. First, it offers a unique account of "San Min," the prototype of the current Chinese educational principle proposed by Yan Fu (1854-1921) that aimed at improving people's physical, intellectual and moral capacities. This system of educational thinking has received only marginal attention in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, Educational Principles, Physical Development
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Todd John Wallenius – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
Scholars have long considered the era of modern education in Nepal as inaugurated by foreign actors in the 1950s. Based on an analysis of two central publications of the relatively overlooked educator and intellectual Jaya Prithvi Bahadur Singh, this paper aims to shed new light on the educational history of the early twentieth century Himalaya.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Global Approach, Postcolonialism
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Oksana Melnyk; Olena Dashkovska; Vitalii Pogrebnyak – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2024
The integration of Ukrainian higher education into the European educational area is a key condition for its reform and development. It provides for the activation of cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union in the field of higher education, harmonization of higher education systems, deepening of cooperation between higher education…
Descriptors: Models, Higher Education, Student Mobility, Study Abroad
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Paloma Durán y Lalaguna – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the meaning of education for tolerance. To do so, I will take as a starting point the historical and philosophical work by the United Nations, culminating in the "Declaration of Principles of Tolerance" (1995) and the related "Plan of Action" (1995). Second, I will analyze the concrete…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Educational Principles