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Cassimon, Danny; Essers, Dennis; Renard, Robrecht – Comparative Education, 2011
A decade has passed since participants in the World Education Forum committed themselves to achieve, by 2015, the six Education for All (EFA) goals under the Dakar Framework for Action. Despite significant progress, some of the goals are likely to be missed by a large margin. Besides the absence of a well co-ordinated multi-donor approach in…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Donors, Debt (Financial), Foreign Countries
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Lundahl, Christian; Waldow, Florian – Comparative Education, 2009
The article discusses the entry of standardised measurement into the educational systems of Sweden and Germany and the processes of shape-shifting associated with this process. In the first part of the article, we investigate how standardised measurement challenged existing ways of conceiving education in Sweden and Germany during the first half…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Standardized Tests
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Jochimsen, Reimut – Comparative Education, 1978
In a speech delivered at a conference on "Education and Working Life," the author discusses the importance of a vocational education policy which allows for work opportunities irrespective of formal educational qualifications, and corrects the bias toward general education in the hierarchy of social values. (KC)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Education, Educational Development, Educational Philosophy