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Kommers, Suzan; de Haan, Mariëtte – Intercultural Education, 2021
This paper addresses the potential of online environments as spaces for young people to develop intercultural competences by studying how otherness is created online and how this holds potential for learning. While online communication is an increasing part of young peoples' lives, not much is known about how young people use their online social…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Cultural Awareness, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Networks
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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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McGinn, Michelle K.; Ratkovic, Snežana; Wolhunter, Charl C. – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2013
The Changing Academic Profession (CAP) international survey was designed in part to consider the effects of globalization on the work context and activities of academics in 19 countries or regions around the world. This paper draws from a subset of these data to explore the extent to which academics are globally connected in their research and…
Descriptors: Surveys, Global Approach, International Programs, College Faculty
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Béneker, Tine; van Dis, Hanneke; van Middelkoop, Daniel – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2014
This article reports the results of a study conducted to gain insight into the world-mindedness of young people living in the Netherlands. Two groups are compared: students attending "regular" Dutch schools and students attending international schools. A questionnaire measured the students' world-mindedness and their evaluation of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, International Schools, Conventional Instruction
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Desjardins, Richard – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2013
This study considers the extensive critique of the impact of the "market" or "neoliberal" model on learning and its outcomes in the light of alternative models. The purpose is to consider the potential impacts of the market on learning and its outcomes and to contextualise critique by considering alternative coordination…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Commercialization, Politics of Education, Global Approach
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Béneker, Tine; Tani, Sirpa; Uphues, Rainer; van der Vaart, Rob – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2013
Geography is one of the most important school subjects for the development of global awareness and international understanding. Curricular concepts and pedagogical strategies for developing global awareness through geography abound. What is largely unknown, however, is how young people make sense of the world in which they are growing up and if…
Descriptors: Geography, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness
Mazon, Bradley K. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The topic of this study is the student experience of internationalization at the University at Buffalo (UB) in Buffalo, New York, and at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The data for this study was collected using a purposeful sampling technique in order to choose particular participants believed to facilitate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Foreign Countries
Kwiek, Marek, Ed.; Kurkiewicz, Andrzej, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The recent decade brought about new ways of thinking about universities. European-level educational policies became increasingly influential as the agenda of university reforms was viewed as part of greater Lisbon strategy reforms. National governments adopted the economic concept of the university consistently developed in subsequent official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
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Asghar, Waheed; Siddi, Sulaman Hafeez – International Journal of Training Research, 2008
In this era of global competition, human resources will play a decisive role in the battle for efficiency and competitive advantage, where nations and organisations with superior and quality-oriented human capital will soon outperform those with inefficient and quantity-oriented labour force. Rate of human capital formation will be more important…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Productivity, Competition
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Huang, Futao – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2006
This article discusses the major issues and character of internationalization of curricula in higher education institutions in recent years in three non-English-speaking countries--China, Japan and The Netherlands. By making a comparative analysis of curricula provided for international students and curricula with international subjects,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Curriculum Development
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Dykstra, Pearl A.; Wagner, Michael – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
Via a simultaneous analysis of different life course pathways (marital, occupational, and childbearing histories) and different outcomes, this article addresses the question When does childlessness matter in late life and how? Survey data from Amsterdam (N = 661) and Berlin, Germany (N = 516) are used. Lifelong childlessness results in smaller…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Childlessness, Marriage, Divorce
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Wenger, G. Clare; Dykstra, Pearl A.; Melkas, Tuula; Knipscheer, Kees C. P. M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
This article focuses on the ways in which patterns of marriage and fertility shape older people's involvement in community groups and their support networks. The data are from Australia, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Findings show that childless older adults, regardless of…
Descriptors: Childlessness, Social Networks, Public Service, Older Adults
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Geiger, Roger L. – Higher Education, 1988
Three structural divisions between private and public sectors of higher education are compared: mass private and restricted public sectors; parallel public and private sectors; and, comprehensive public and peripheral private sectors. The private sectors are contrasted in terms of state authority, financial constraints, the student marketplace or…
Descriptors: Capital, Change, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
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Williams, Tracy Rundstrom – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2005
This study answers a need for outcome assessment in study abroad by exploring the intercultural communication skills of study abroad and on campus students. Through a pretest and posttest of two specific skills, intercultural adaptability and intercultural sensitivity, study abroad students were compared to students who stay on campus to measure…
Descriptors: On Campus Students, Intercultural Communication, Communication Skills, Study Abroad
Green, Andy; Preston, John; Sabates, Ricardo – Compare, 2003
Distinguishes social capital from societal cohesion. Argues that education acts in different ways for each. Develops a distributional model showing the relationship between equality of educational outcomes and various measures of social cohesion. Discusses theories explaining country trends and variations in educational inequality and social…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cultural Pluralism
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