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Blanco-Ramirez, Gerardo – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
Quality practices in higher education involve more than mere compliance with standards and technical mandates; given the complexity of the decisions involved in quality in higher education, this concept, quality, can be analyzed as symbol and performance. This paper utilizes translation as heuristic to analyze the implementation of US…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Educational Quality
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Yemini, Miri; Dvir, Yuval – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This study comprises a comprehensive attempt to reveal the power relations and conflicting interests within the local-global nexus of the Israeli public education system. The perceptions of different stakeholders were explored, in regard to the implementation of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program as an example of a globally oriented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Power Structure, Advanced Placement Programs