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Saudelli, Mary Gene; Niemczyk, Ewelina K. – Perspectives in Education, 2022
Universities can play a key role in contributing to a sustainable future for our planet and its inhabitants. In times of constant changes, there is a growing urgency to reflect on the vision of universities as well as their respective practices and projects that can promote the creation of sustainable societies. As is evident in scholarly…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Universities, Foreign Countries, Social Problems
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Aikens, Kathleen; McKenzie, Marcia – Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
The aim of this study was to better understand how Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) policy has been developed and mobilized across subnational contexts in a federated system. We undertook a comparative analysis of sustainability-specific policy and curricula documents from all Canadian provinces and territories. We identified three…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Environmental Education, Educational Policy, Sustainability
Universities UK, 2021
The UK government has been called on to reform the Visitor immigration route by increasing the length of time short-term exchange students are permitted to stay in the UK from six months to one academic year. The contribution of international students to the UK is celebrated and discussed within the higher education sector. However, not as much…
Descriptors: Immigration, Foreign Students, Exchange Programs, Higher Education
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Sheludko, Inna; Bondarenko, Mykola – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
The comparative analysis of modern foreign concepts and systems of professional training of specialists in Western European countries has been carried out. Leading ideas, principles and regularities of the development of continuous professional education have been revealed. It has been stated that most developed European countries gradually reduce…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Global Approach, Professional Education
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Maroy, Christian; Pons, Xavier; Dupuy, Claire – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
The article argues that there is no single globalisation of education systems, but rather multiple globalisations of each system taken in its individual context. We propose three explanatory factors to account for these vernacular globalisation processes, that is, for individual policy trajectories in each national context: path dependence on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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Karagrigoriou, Efstratia – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
Globalization and neoliberal practices have influenced leadership in education in various ways, including through curricula. One of the most vital sections in curricula is citizenship education. Supranational and international organizations, as well as governments, have advanced interest in elementary school, particularly kindergarten, curricula.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Citizenship Education, Democracy
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Dossey, John A.; Funke, Joachim – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2016
This article presents an overview of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 Problem-Solving assessment. The assessment examined the capabilities of 15-year-olds in 40 nations and four large international cities, as well as the Canadian Provinces, to solve a set…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
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Wiseman, Dawn; Pegg, Jerine – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2015
This review of the "Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education" ("CJSMTE") presents descriptive statistics regarding contributions to the journal between January 2001 and December 2014. Data are compared with a brief review from 2009 (Wallace, 2009). Findings suggest that there are areas for improvement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Periodicals, STEM Education, Journal Articles
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Zaida, Joseph, Ed.; Hallam, Pamela, Ed.; Whitehouse, John, Ed. – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2023
This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to values education, cultural identity and teaching democracy, set against the backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to values education and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Democracy, Values Education, Self Concept
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Lee, Yuko Ikegami; Metcalfe, Amy Scott – Journal of International Students, 2017
In this comparative content analysis, job postings for academic advising personnel from U.S. and Canadian higher education institutions were examined to ascertain expectations for job candidates in terms of skills and duties, educational requirements, and compensation. Fifty-three job descriptions from 18 research-intensive, public universities…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Ethics, Global Approach, Comparative Analysis
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Van Viegen, Saskia; Zappa-Hollman, Sandra – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
This paper draws draw on conceptualisations of language as heteroglossic to examine whether and how multilingual practices and plurilingual pedagogies are enacted as instructional strategies in two multilingual English-medium universities in western Canada. Multilingual educational contexts have the potential to comprise 'translanguaging spaces'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, English
Adamson, Frank, Ed.; Astrand, Bjorn, Ed.; Darling-Hammond, Linda, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
With contributions from Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Fullan, Pasi Sahlberg, and Martin Carnoy, "Global Education Reform" is an eye-opening analysis of national educational reforms and the types of high-achieving systems needed to serve all students equitably.The collection documents the ideologically and educationally distinctive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Privatization, Ideology
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Van Damme, Dirk – European Journal of Higher Education, 2015
In this paper, I argue for more and better learning metrics in higher education, eventually through an international, comparative assessment of students' learning outcomes. Better learning measures may help to improve transparency in the system by addressing the information asymmetry problem. If not addressed adequately, the lack of transparency…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Methods
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Koehn, Peter – Higher Education Policy, 2013
As universities in the North and South become increasingly dependent on donor patronage for research and sustainable development initiatives, systematic assessments of transnational-partnership-award decisions and outcomes are of rising interest in academic and policy circles. After presenting a conceptual framework that facilitates comparative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Donors, Research and Development, Global Approach
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Goddard, J. Tim – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2015
This article addresses issues of educational leadership in postcolonial and post-conflict environments. The focus relates to large-scale testing protocols, diversity in schools, asset-based community development, and communications technology. The article highlights the importance of context to the tenets of social justice, equitable human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Diversity (Institutional), Educational Change
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