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Eli Smeplass; Johannes K. Schmees – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This paper examines the evolution of Norwegian higher education with a particular focus on the role and transformation of colleges. Historically, these colleges have been instrumental in providing geographically accessible, higher (vocational) education tailored to local and regional needs, significantly contributing to Norway's workforce and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Role, Regional Characteristics, Access to Education
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Schumacher, Gary; Hammonds, Craig – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2015
This case is written for graduate students in a superintendency seminar course, a school-community relations course, or a school leadership course, such as a school politics course. It presents a highly charged school referendum issue in a school district that is comprised of two distinctly different communities. An initial referendum to construct…
Descriptors: School Districts, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Voting, Educational Change
Rodríguez, José Gregorio; Blasco, Carlos Miñana – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2010
This article examines education policy on curricular integration and interdisciplinary practices in primary and secondary education (K-11) in Colombia. It presents an overview of institutional and teachers' discourses and practices concerning this subject, based on empirical work that was done in Bogotá. Finally, it presents a cooperative research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Local Issues, Educational Policy
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Lo, William Yat Wai – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This paper views seeking the optimal balance between state strengths and the scope of state functions for "good governance" as the formation of a homogenization-heterogenization matrix of policy initiatives in different social settings. Homogenization refers to a global tendency for institutional changes and governance framework to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, International Education, Educational Policy