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Influences of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Studies: Practice, Policy, and Research across Countries and Regions
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Malak-Minkiewicz, Barbara, Ed.; Torney-Purta, Judith, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2021
Reflects on cross-national differences in contemporary research, policy, implementation, and teaching practice in civic education across a wide range of countries in Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on advances as well as enduring and emerging challenges for civic education in educational…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Foreign Countries, Educational Research
The Character of Curriculum Studies: Bildung, Currere, and the Recurring Question of the Subject
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Pinar, William F. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
This volume assembles essays addressing the recurring question of the "subject," understood both as human person and school subject, thereby elaborating the subjective and disciplinary character of curriculum studies. After examining scholarship on the "subject," Pinar critiques its absence in the new sociology of curriculum,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Sociology, Scholarship
Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education
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Slaughter, Sheila; Rhoades, Gary – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In "Academic Capitalism and the New Economy," higher education scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades detail the aggressive…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Systems, Educational Change, Social Networks
The Research System in the 1980's. Public Policy Issues.
Logsdon, John M., Ed. – 1982
U.S. research institutions are undergoing significant changes from patterns established in the decade following World War II. Declining undergraduate enrollments are predicted to lead to "steady-state" universities; federal policy is emphasizing industry-university research cooperation and calling for a decreased federal role in the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Employment Opportunities, Engineering, Federal Aid
Research, Policy and Practice. World Yearbook of Education 1985.
Nisbet, John, Ed.; And Others – 1985
Nineteen articles on the status of the relationship among educational research, policy, and practice around the world are collected in the 1985 edition of the "World Yearbook of Education." Contributors address the development of national policies on educational research in countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Agency Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Policy
Higher Education Research at the Turn of the New Century: Structures, Issues, and Trends. Garland Studies in Higher Education, Volume 10.
Sadlak, Jan, Ed.; Altbach, Philip G., Ed. – 1997
This collection of 15 essays provides a state of the art report on research activities in higher education since the early 1980s. It includes: (1) "Research on Higher Education: Global Perspectives" (Philip G. Altbach); (2) "Research on Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa" (Corbin Michel Guedegbe); (3) "Research on…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Administration, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Universities in the Business of Repression: The Academic-Military-Industrial Complex and Central America.
Feldman, Jonathan – 1989
This book presents the thesis that U.S. universities have become part of an academic-military-industrial complex that support repression and murder in Central America. Part 1 explains how U.S. policies have been based on murder in Central America and examines the responsibility of transnational corporations and U.S. war planners in this…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Liberties, Corporations, Financial Support