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Agnieszka Stepkowska – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The paper focuses on the communication of three bilingual couples, each speaking a different lingua franca (LF). Positioning theory offers a methodological framework to explain language choice in interactive positioning within personal contacts. A comparative view of the couples' storylines benefits from the differences between them. The analysis…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Form Classes (Languages), Language Attitudes, Intercultural Communication
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Svonni, Charlotta – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
This comparative curricular study examines the educational functions of the Swedish Sámi nomad school curricula before and after a central school reform in the 1960s. Due to the reform, the nomad school, a boarding school system for the Indigenous Sámi people in Sweden, was formed to bring about systemic changes in the education of Sámi children,…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Boarding Schools, Educational History, Animal Husbandry
Van Beek, Michael – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2011
In the passionate debates over providing equal educational opportunity for all children, it's frequently argued that large financial inequities create challenges for many public schools, particularly those in lower-income urban areas. This study compares the revenues and operating expenditures of Michigan's urban, suburban, town and rural school…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Public Schools, Expenditures, Municipalities
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Pavlenko, Aneta – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
Since the post-Soviet context is not particularly well known to the majority of readers, the author uses this introduction to provide a general background against which developments in particular post-Soviet countries can be better understood. The author begins by placing these developments in the sociohistoric context of language policies of the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Language Maintenance, Multilingualism
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Bolovan, Sorina Paula – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2009
No one disputes today the fact that, for centuries, the diversity of traditions and cultures has been one of the major assets of both Europe and Romania, and that during the past decades the principle of tolerance has become the guarantee of a European open society aware of the importance of its cultural diversity. In this 21st century, in Romania…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Prosocial Behavior, Minority Groups, Cultural Pluralism
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Baetens Beardsmore, Hugo; Swain, Merrill – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1985
Compares two different types of bilingual education programs--the Canadian immersion programs, designed primarily for foreign language enrichment, and the European School bilingual education program, designed primarily for language maintenance. Achievement scores for both approaches were comparable, pointing to the importance of environment and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Comparative Analysis, French, Immersion Programs
Association of School Business Officials International, Reston, VA. – 2000
This paper examines the impact current maintenance and operations (M&O) practices have on U.S. school performance and offers possible opportunities for improvement through the judicious use of technology and methodology. The paper also presents a regional comparative analysis of M&O costs across the country. A list of equipment and their…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Costs, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Agron, Joe, Ed. – American School & University, 1999
Presents survey data on school maintenance and operations (M & O) budgets that show colleges are addressing facilities concerns by increasing M & O funding. M & O comparative-cost data are listed on a per-full-time student and per-building square-footage basis for all colleges, and two- and four-year schools. M & O administrative…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Building Operation, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Agron, Joe – American School & University, 1997
Presents 1997 maintenance and operations (M&O) cost summaries from a sampling of chief business officers at public school districts across the United States. Nationally, results show 9.59% of a school district's net current expenditure was appropriated for M&O in the 1996-1997 school year, up slightly from fiscal year 1995-1996. Costs are shown to…
Descriptors: Budgets, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Dosanjh, J. S.; Ghuman, Paul A. S. – Educational Studies, 1997
Presents an analysis of the opinions of two generations of Asian parents, one from a 1970-74 survey, and one from a 1995 survey, regarding their children's education. Reveals increasing satisfaction with their children's education; greater mother participation in educational activities; and greater concern with teaching mother tongues in schools.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Kozelka, Paul R. – 1985
National language planning involves four interdependent processes that ideally constitute a cycle: fact-finding, policy formation, implementation, and evaluation. Each of these processes is more difficult in the relatively young but highly pluralistic nations of Africa. A community-based model of language planning offers ways to alleviate or…
Descriptors: African Languages, Centralization, Community Role, Comparative Analysis
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Spolsky, Bernard – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1995
Focuses on language restoration in a situation where people start again to use a language as the language of the home and to speak it to newborn children after a period when these uses were extinct. Specifically considers the conditions accounting for Hebrew language revitalization and compares this situation with efforts to revitalize the Maori…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Agents, Comparative Analysis, Ethnic Groups
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Krashen, Stephen D. – Focus, 1991
The core of the case for bilingual education is that the principles underlying successful bilingual education emphasize the same factors that underlie successful language acquisition in general: understanding messages and obtaining comprehensible input; using background knowledge; and the development of literacy. The importance of the first…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Gross, Francis M. – 1982
Budget formulas used by states for state-supported colleges and universities are described, along with budgeting guidelines. A comparative analysis of the budget formulas in use in 1979-1980 reveals the similarities and differences in design among 19 states. Functional areas of expenditure used in the formula calculation are also compared for each…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Budgeting, College Administration, College Instruction
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Hatoss, Aniko – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2004
Promoting diversity has become a prominent goal in language-in-education policy discourse in two broad contexts. On the one hand, language policies take on the challenge of maintaining and developing "de facto" linguistic and cultural diversity through language acquisition planning; on the other hand, they portray themselves as active…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Cultural Pluralism, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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