NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund; Skarpenes, Ove – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Histories of statistics and quantification have demonstrated that systems of statistical knowledge participate in the construction of the objects that are measured. However, the pace, purpose, and scope of quantification in state bureaucracy have expanded greatly over the past decades, fuelled by (neoliberal) societal trends that have given the…
Descriptors: Statistics, Classification, Educational Practices, Educational Sociology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Barthes, Angela; Lange, Jean-Marc – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2018
The article sets the international context for the development of a curriculum of education for sustainable development and shows the directions being taken in the Francophone community. Building on a significant number of studies carried out in France, we constitute a typology of the positions of French-speaking researchers involved in those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Classification, National Curriculum
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ligozat, Florence; Lundqvist, Eva; Amade-Escot, Chantal – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
One strand of comparative didactics aims at discussing the relationships between the theoretical constructions developed within subject didactics and how these can contribute to research about teaching and learning. This article explores the relationships between categories for analysing joint actions of teacher and students (didactic contract,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Science Education, Science Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pilz, Matthias – Vocations and Learning, 2016
The ways in which vocational education and training (VET) systems are structured vary significantly from country to country, both because different countries have different objectives for their VET systems and because VET is differently embedded within the education and labour market systems of any individual country. International research in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Classification, Comparative Education, Models
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Biggart, Andy; Järvinen, Tero; Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo – European Education, 2015
In this article institutional and structural factors relating to access to education are assessed. First, the macro frameworks of institutional regulation that exert influence on the educational trajectories of young Europeans are demonstrated. Based on different aspects of these frameworks and drawing from extant research, the article presents a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Educational Practices, Classification
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Castejón, Alba; Zancajo, Adrián – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This article focuses on analysing the effect of educational differentiation policies of OECD educational systems on socioeconomically disadvantaged students, based on data from PISA 2009. The analysis is conducted on the basis of a definition of two subgroups of disadvantaged students: those that achieve high scores, and those obtaining scores…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Individualized Programs