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What's in a Right? Two Variations for Interpreting the Right to Education
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McMillan, Leah K. – International Review of Education, 2010
The end of the Cold War ushered in a paradigmatic shift in international development discourse whereby a human rights-based approach to development was generated. This shift has stimulated the pegging of international development policy to the objectives of the human rights regime. However, in attempting to unify development and human rights…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Definitions, International Education, International Programs
Scaling-Up Aid to Education: Is Absorptive Capacity a Constraint?
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Rose, Pauline – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
"Absorptive capacity" is a frequently used term amongst development practitioners in education. It is adopted by some as a reason for caution over scaling up aid. Others are of the view that absorptive capacity is an excuse by some donors for not delivering on their Education for All financing commitments. Drawing on interviews with…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Donors, Nongovernmental Organizations, Barriers
International Congress on the Universal Availability of Publications (UAP).
Courrier, Yves – UNESCO Journal of Information Science, Librarianship and Archives Administration, 1982
Outlines the Universal Availability of Publications (UAP) program and the place therein of the UAP Congress. Presents the observations made by the Preparatory Committee for the congress on the UAP programme and on a number of problems concerning the disparities between developed and undeveloped countries in publication availability. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Committees, Conferences, Copyrights, Definitions
A Framework for Teaching Democratic Citizenship: An International Project.
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Bahmueller, Charles F. – International Journal of Social Education, 1997
Asks whether it is possible to develop an international, cross-cultural consensus on the meaning and characteristics of democracy and which common elements of these should constitute education for civic democracy. Outlines an international project, Democratic Citizenship: A Framework, in an attempt to answer these questions. Discusses possible…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Definitions, Democracy
The Development of Peace Research in the Universities of the Europe Region.
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Wiberg, Hakan – Higher Education in Europe, 1984
Issues in the definition of peace research are discussed, the origins and founding institutions of peace research in Europe are chronicled, and the status of peace research projects and programs in universities in the European countries and related conferences, organizations, and publications are outlined. Nordic and socialist countries are…
Descriptors: College Programs, Definitions, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Participatory Research. An Introduction. Participatory Research Network Series No. 3.
Society for Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi (India). – 1982
Participatory research is an approach that calls for a democratic interaction between the researcher and those among whom the research is conducted. While this approach has been implemented with both individuals and groups in a wide variety of settings such as geographic communities, workplace situations, adult learning groups, community issue…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Data Collection, Definitions