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Gautreaux, Michelle; Delgado, Sandra – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
This article employs narrative analysis to examine how the media in 12 different countries characterize the "Teach for All" (TFA) teacher. Examining mass media narratives in these 12 countries illustrates that there are some remarkable commonalities in the narratives and character portraits co-constructed and propagated by the media. At…
Descriptors: Mass Media, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change, Global Approach
Lu, Carol Yi-Rong – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The Taiwan travel information resources used by American, German, and Japanese tourists in 2006 are identified and analyzed in this study. Differences among demographic groups regarding types of information accessed, spending behaviors, and levels of satisfaction with available travel resources were examined. The study was based on analysis of…
Descriptors: Travel, Tourism, Doctoral Dissertations, Information Sources
Ortiz, Flora Ida – 1984
To explicate the relevance of cultural context to educational administration practices, this paper contrasts United States cultural attitudes and administrative practices with those of Latin America. Drawing on Leslie A. White's definition of culture, the author presents the Weberian model of administration as exemplary for the United States,…
Descriptors: Administration, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Clubb, Jerome M.; Traugott, Michael W. – 1978
While the emphasis in much recent research has been essentially on urban concerns, there are very substantial empirical data resources which are available for the study of nonmetropolitan social, political, and economic phenomenon. The sources of computer-readable data relevant to investigation of nonmetropolitan phenomena can be grouped into…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Community Organizations, Community Study, Comparative Analysis
Rawlings, Stephen – 1978
The booklet analyzes demographic and economic characteristics of married couples in the United States. The study is based on census data and on information about joint characteristics of husbands and wives. The objective of the study is to revise concepts related to family and household data by adding analysis of wives' characteristics to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Age Groups, Census Figures
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Tome, Eduardo – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: To compare in a fruitful way the human resources (HR) policies that exist in the European Union (EU) and in the United States of America (USA). Nowadays, the world is evolving to a situation in which big economic spaces like Brazil, Russia, India, China, Japan, the EU and the USA are becoming dominant. Those spaces can learn from one…
Descriptors: State Standards, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Vocational Education