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The Process of Internationalisation of Higher Education in Brazil: The Impact of Colonisation on South-South Relations
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Guilherme, Alexandre; Morosini, Marilia; Kohls dos Santos, Pricila – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
This article presents a study that analyses interviews of African students participating in the PEC academic mobility programme, so to gain an understanding of the individual and corporate experience of living and studying in Brazil. However, our analysis also demonstrates a highly significant finding that the historical process of colonisation,…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Foreign Policy
Ethics and International Curriculum Work: The Challenges of Culture and Context
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Mason, Terrence C., Ed.; Helfenbein, Robert J., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
The widely cited, though highly contested, idea that "the world is flat" (Friedman, 2004) carries with it a call for education to provide a leveling effect across continents and cultures Students in Skokie or in Skopje, as the theory goes, are expected to experience a school curriculum that shares certain common elements, goals, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Ethics, Global Education
From Learning Organization to Learning Community: Sustainability through Lifelong Learning
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Kearney, Judith; Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to: extend the concept of "The learning organization" to "The learning community," especially disadvantaged communities; demonstrate how leaders in a migrant community can achieve positive change at the personal, professional, team and community learning levels through participatory action learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Disadvantaged, Cultural Awareness
Learning Regions in Germany
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Thinesse-Demel, Jutta – European Journal of Education, 2010
In 2000, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) launched the programme "Learning Regions--Providing Support for Networks'" in cooperation with the Lander. It was co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF). Some 90 regions were selected and financially supported. After one year, 71 regions continued to build-up…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Regional Cooperation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons. Umweltbildung, Umweltkommunikation und Nachhaltigkeit/Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability. Volume 34
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Leal Filho, Walter, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
This book, prepared in the context of the "UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD)", also known as "Rio+20", contains the papers submitted to the "World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2012)", which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 5 and 6 June 2012. It pursues the following main aims: to document and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Conferences (Gatherings)
Information Technologies (IT): Competency Requirements and Development of IT Skills in an Australian Degree for K-6 Teachers
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Chambers, Dianne P.; Tromp, Calvin – Australian Educational Computing, 2002
Developing Information Technology (IT) skills in pre-service teachers and identifying IT competencies required of practising teachers is an issue challenging most developed nations. This paper looks at IT capabilities required by a number of educational systems and discusses IT skills developed in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) degree at the…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Developed Nations, Preservice Teacher Education