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Marie Battiste; James Sa'ke'j Youngblood Henderson – University of British Columbia Press, 2024
In 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples became law, extending inherent human rights for the first time to the approximately half a billion Indigenous people around the planet. The declaration sets standards for respecting Indigenous knowledge systems and heritage rights, preserving identity and languages, and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Cultural Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives
Sin Wang Chong, Editor; Hayo Reinders, Editor – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, and initiated and implemented in the four nations of the United Kingdom: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. By looking at the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Development, Educational Technology, Policy Formation
McDonnell, Lorraine M.; Weatherford, M. Stephen – Harvard Education Press, 2020
In "Evidence, Politics, and Education Policy," political scientists Lorraine M. McDonnell and M. Stephen Weatherford provide an original analysis of evidence use in education policymaking to help scholars and advocates shape policy more effectively. The book shows how multiple types of evidence are combined as elected officials and their…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Policy Formation, Public Officials
Linh Phung, Editor; Hayo Reinders, Editor; Vu Phi Ho Pham, Editor – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2024
This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such as policy-making, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology are locally adopted, adapted, initiated, and implemented in Vietnam and Cambodia. The region is responding to a large number of significant challenges, including…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Chelsea Robles – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case study examines the methods I used to carry out my PhD field research in 2010 and 2011 on the modernization of the educational system in Bhutan. Distinguishing educational modernization in Bhutan is the state policy of Gross National Happiness, which shows powerful aspirations toward conserving 'traditional' knowledge and values while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Case Studies
Erekson, Keith A., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
The politicians and pastors who revised the Texas social studies standards made national and international headlines. However, much of that coverage was sensational and squeezed the process into a narrow "culture war" storyline. Politics and the History Curriculum sets the debate over the Texas standards within a broader context by…
Descriptors: Social Studies, History Instruction, Politics of Education, Academic Standards
Hallinan, Maureen T., Ed. – Springer, 2011
Scholarly analysis in the sociology of education has burgeoned in recent decades. "Frontiers in Sociology of Education" aims to provide a roadmap for sociologists and other social scientists as they set bold new directions for future research on schools. In Part 1 of this forward-looking volume, the authors present cutting-edge research…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Social Scientists, Educational Research, Guidelines
Remer, Jane – 1990
This book examines the place of the arts in the schools and how to establish that place. The document makes the case for the role of the visual arts, music, dance, drama, architecture, and aesthetics in educating boys and girls while simultaneously using the arts as a vehicle for school renewal. A special focus of the book is the rational for, and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Action, Community Development, Curriculum Development
Judd, Robert C. – 1972
This document describes and comments on the extent of use of the Delphi method in higher education decision making. Delphi is characterized by: (1) anonymity of response; (2) multiple iterations; (3) convergence of the distribution of answers; and (4) statistical group response (median, interquartile range) preserving intact a distribution that…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Curriculum Development, Decision Making
Purves, Alan C., Ed. – 1989
Increasingly over the past decade there have appeared in the press bar graphs comparing the performance of U.S. students with their counterparts in other countries. Usually these graphs have been accompanied by dire warnings and pointing fingers. The main source of the data on international comparisons has been the International Association for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Carter, David S. G., Ed.; O'Neill, Marnie H., Ed. – 1995
This book is the second in a two-volume series of studies of educational change organized around three themes--systemic change, the transformation of policy into practice, and curriculum contexts. The book presents case studies from Australia, Great Britain, Israel, the United States, and New Zealand to illustrate the cross-cultural complexity of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum Development
Bailey, Larry J. – 1978
Designed for writers of state and local career education plans and projects who are required to make statements of policy when applying for funds, this model policy statement contains eight major justifications for career education. Career education is defined as the totality of experiences through which one learns about and prepares to engage in…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Definitions
Marks, Joseph Lappin – 1978
Within the system of higher education, the humanistic disciplines are an essential subsystem; a subsystem, however, on which the current emphasis on laborforce relevance is having particularly detrimental effects. The current state of the humanistic disciplines may be characterized as that of a state of recession. Some of the external factors…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Futures (of Society)
Brouillette, Liane – 1996
Since the 1960s, a dizzying array of educational reforms have been introduced in school districts across the United States. This book describes a study that focused on how successive waves of reform interacted within a single school district. The study follows the suburban Cottonwood School District from its beginnings in the early 1950s through…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History
Wenrich, Ralph C.; Wenrich, J. William – 1974
A volume in the Merrill Series in Career Programs, this book is an attempt to analyze and interpret changes in vocational and technical education and the public attitude toward it, and to suggest ways in which administrators might use this information in planning and operating programs that prepare youth and adults for employment and help to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Decision Making