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Direct linkPersson, Bo; Hermelin, Brita – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2018
In this article, we analyse a recent industry-driven initiative in Sweden for the organisation and operation of Vocational Education and Training. In the context of a statist and school-based system for VET, this is an initiative which seems to be an example of an anomaly in the present system. The initiative is called the Technical College scheme…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Vocational Education, Technical Institutes
Simmons, Llewellyn E. – Voices in Education, 2015
This article critically analyses national development, a false narrative for the establishment of national literacy, a national math strategy, and national identity plans for student success. The danger and power of false narratives of national development are analysed, especially when subscribed to by formal colonial educational institutions like…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Social Theories, Literacy
Gochhayat, Jyotiranjan; Giri, Vijai N.; Suar, Damodar – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2017
This study provides a new conceptualization of educational leadership with a multilevel and integrative approach. It examines the impact of multilevel leadership (MLL) on the effectiveness of technical educational institutes through the mediating effects of organizational communication, bases of power and organizational culture. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Institutes, Leadership, Organizational Effectiveness
Download full textKeevers, Lynne Maree; Price, Oriana; Leask, Betty; Sultan, Fauziah K. P. Dawood; Lim, Jane See Yin; Loh, Vin Cent – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2019
This paper investigates quality assurance as boundary-making practices that establish and re-establish boundaries of a transnational education (TNE) partnership between an Australian and a Malaysian higher education institution. Drawing on practice theory we offer a conception of boundaries as enacted, shifting and performed by the multiple actors…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Institutional Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries
Levin, John S.; Aliyeva, Aida; Walker, Laurencia – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This qualitative investigation of higher education institutional development addresses new universities that were former community colleges in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Stemming from an original study conducted nearly two decades earlier, this investigation's data were collected from the same institutions and from similar…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Transfer Programs, College Transfer Students, Social Change
Doughty, Howard A. – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2014
The historical failures of Marxism in the twentieth-century came in three forms: the inability to account for the rise of fascism and Nazism; the establishment of authoritarian regimes where "communist" revolutions had occurred, largely in pre-industrial societies from barely post-feudal Russia to peasant-based China and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Educational Practices, Community Colleges, Marxian Analysis
Baroutsis, Aspa; McGregor, Glenda; Mills, Martin – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2016
In this paper, we are concerned with the notion of "pedagogic voice" as it relates to the presence of student "voice" in teaching, learning and curriculum matters at an alternative, or second chance, school in Australia. This school draws upon many of the principles of democratic schooling via its utilisation of student voice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Learner Engagement, Democratic Values
Choy, Siew Chee; Sedhu, Daljeet Singh; Liew, Yow Lin; Lee, Mun Yee; Malenee, Audrey; Anuar, Norkhadirah – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2015
Purpose: The reason many Asian students find student-centred learning challenging may be due to cultural factors present in every human interaction between individuals. This study attempts to determine the influence of these cultural factors on students' awareness of how and why they learn. Method: A sample of 12 students enrolled in a two year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Asian Culture, Student Centered Learning
Cooke, Michael; Lang, Daniel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
The paper examines the results of a study of strategic plans in community colleges in Ontario, Canada between 1995 and 2005. The system was very similar to centralized systems in many jurisdictions including China. The study found that (1) the strategies of those colleges were more alike than different; (2) the strategic content of the plans as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Centralization, Strategic Planning, Higher Education
