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Peer reviewedLaw, Wing-Wah – Comparative Education Review, 1995
During the 1980s, the higher education systems of China and Taiwan were reformed as part of selective social transformations driven by different domestic forces: economic in China and political in Taiwan. Common to both reforms was devolution of institutional powers to colleges and universities, but within institutional and curricular limits…
Descriptors: Colleges, Comparative Education, Decentralization, Educational Change
Peer reviewedDimmock, Clive; Walker, Allan – Comparative Education, 1997
Interviews with nine principals of Hong Kong schools found that faced with uncertainties arising from Hong Kong's political transition, principals were somewhat confident about coping with changes in curricula and school management but felt less control over broader changes in access and opportunity following the expected influx of teachers and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Civics, Coping, Educational Change
Shimahara, Nobuo – 1988
A discussion is presented on the education of Japanese teachers, their roles in the schools, and proposed reforms in their education. In describing the pre-World War II background of teacher education in Japan, three ideological forces are discussed: Western thought that impacted upon early Meiji reforms, Confucianism, and nationalism. Western…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Cultural Influences, Educational Change
Boys, Chris J.; And Others – 1988
This book discusses, from a British perspective, the ways in which higher education, and particularly the teaching of undergraduates, responds to the influences of the environment of which the labor market is a major element. It is based on studies made between 1984 and 1987 of 49 departments in nine higher education institutions: four…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Business Education, Economics Education, Educational Change
Download full textStephens, E. Robert – 1998
This book examines the role of the educational service agency (ESA) in the process of enabling and facilitating rural school improvement. The introductory chapter discusses the continuing significance of rural education, service to rural districts as an explicit reason for establishing ESAs, and the characteristics of several types of ESAs.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Planning, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Arnold, Michael L. – 2003
Mathematics education is different in rural schools than in non-rural schools. An explanation for this can be found in an open social systems model of schools, in which schools are comprised of interdependent subsystems that function together to transform inputs into outcomes. These are open systems in that external forces in the environment…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Context Effect, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
