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Power and Pedagogy in Cambodia -- A Historical Overview
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Takayo Ogisu – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2022
The definition and goals of education are mercurial, varying widely across time and space. In Cambodia, which has experienced both flux and reflux over time, education--particularly in schools--has strongly reflected the political circumstances of the time. Education as a fundamental human right is a very new idea: it was, and still is to a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational History, Power Structure, Colonialism
Physical Education and Health: Global Perspectives and Best Practice
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Chin, Ming-Kai, Ed.; Edginton, Christopher R. – Sagamore Publishing LLC, 2014
"Physical Education and Health: Global Perspectives and Best Practice" draws together global scholars, researchers, and practitioners to provide a review and analysis of new directions in physical education and health worldwide. The book provides descriptive information from 40 countries regarding contemporary practices, models, and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Global Approach, Best Practices
Educational Configurations for Teaching Environmental Socioscientific Issues within the Perspective of Sustainability
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Simonneaux, Jean; Simonneaux, Laurence – Research in Science Education, 2012
Education for Sustainability has become an institutional requirement in many countries. It takes many forms that can integrate the teaching of environmental Socioscientific Issues (SSIs). In this context, we present the French notion of Socially Acute Questions (SAQs). We develop a theoretical frame to analyse educational configurations applied to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Science Education
Concern-Focused Evaluation for Ambiguous and Conflicting Policies: An Approach from the Environmental Field
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Mermet, Laurent; Bille, Raphael; Leroy, Maya – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
Environment and sustainable development show how policies are becoming ever more complex and ambiguous. This trend calls for new evaluation approaches. They need to be more clearly focused on specific, explicit concerns. They must be driven by a strategic concept of use to overcome the vulnerability to manipulation of many integrative, essentially…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Sustainable Development
Popularising the "New International Political Economy": The ATTAC Movement
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Bobulescu, Roxana – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
Born in France in 1997, the ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions to Aid Citizens) movement is popularising IPE (international political economy), the interdisciplinary field of study born in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. The affinity between the ideas and main concerns of ATTAC and IPE can be clearly stated. ATTAC is a…
Descriptors: Popular Education, Critical Theory, Critical Reading, Foreign Countries
Influence of the Globalized and Globalizing Sustainable Development Framework on National Policies Related to Environmental Education
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Sauve, Lucie; Brunelle, Renee; Berryman, Tom – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
This article presents and discusses some results of the authors' analysis of international and national institutional documents related to environmental education from the 1970s to the present day. The aim of the study is to present a critical characterization of how environmental education is conceptualized and introduced through the ongoing…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Educational Change, Sustainable Development, Educational Policy