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Kimkong Heng; Bunhorn Doeur – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Cambodia aspires to become a knowledge-based society to remain relevant in the context of the global knowledge-based economy. However, it remains uncertain how this aspiration can be realized considering the low quality of the country's education system. Drawing on secondary sources, this article aims to shed light on Cambodia's aspirations for a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Economy, Global Approach, Academic Aspiration
Waldron, Chad H.; Willis, Arlette; Tatum, Alfred; Salas, Rachel G.; Coleman, James Joshua; Croom, Marcus; Deroo, Matthew R.; Hikida, Michiko; Machado, Emily; Smith, Patriann; Zaidi, Rahat – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2023
This invited paper highlights the reflections of expert panelists who were spontaneously called upon, graciously accepted, and quickly organized to respond thoughtfully and compellingly to Dr. Arlette Willis' powerful and timely Oscar Causey address at the 2022 Literacy Research Association (LRA) annual conference. In her address, Dr. Willis…
Descriptors: Intellectual Freedom, Critical Literacy, Racial Factors, Critical Race Theory
SinghaRoy, Debal K. – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2019
Collective identities of people have remained largely transitional despite largely remaining rooted in certain inherited essentialities. The essential dynamics of identity often get negotiated with various forces and processes like those of the economic transformation, technological reorientation, collective mobilisation, modernisation,…
Descriptors: Social Change, Identification (Psychology), Knowledge Economy, Global Approach
Persson, Roland S. – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2022
Cosmopolitanism is an ancient Greek notion which in modern times has found its way into educational practice. It expresses a moral responsibility toward everyone irrespective of cultural background, looks or ability. However, it is an ideology difficult to operationalise and convey in education if the objective is to change learners' attitudes for…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Cultural Awareness, Moral Values, Social Responsibility
Forrest J. Bowlick; Karen K. Kemp; Shana Crosson; Eric Shook – Geography Teacher, 2024
Cyberinfrastructure (CI) empowers the foundational computation resources underlying data analytics, spatial modeling, and many other domains serving the growing knowledge economy in the United States. In every part of these interactions with CI, questions of how to seamlessly integrate CI training into educational programs exist. In this article,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Global Approach, World Problems, Multiple Literacies
Altbach, Philip G.; Reisberg, Liz – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
The most significant trend in global higher education since the second World War has been massification, the dramatic increases in enrollments around the world. While massification has meant greater access and opportunity, expanded enrollments have strained education budgets and existing infrastructure, outpaced the preparation of academic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Futures (of Society), Private Sector
Frank, David John; Meyer, John W. – Princeton University Press, 2020
The university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today, as more universities in more countries educate more students in more fields. At the same time, the university has become central to a knowledge society based on the belief that everyone can, through higher education, access universal truths and apply them in the name of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Knowledge Economy, College Role
Celeste, Eric – Journal of Staff Development, 2016
Policymakers and education professionals have emphasized the importance of literacy in a global economy many times this century. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) updated its own definition of 21st-century literacies, noting that "[a]s society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Professional Development, Knowledge Economy
Kostrykina, Svetlana; Lee, Kerry; Hope, John – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2018
The unprecedented geopolitical and economic shifts across the world have triggered much debate over the re-thinking of internationalisation of higher education (IoHE). This article discusses how a deeper understanding of the knowledge economy paradigm contributes to re-thinking IoHE, and how it reshapes the relations between the west and the rest…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Higher Education, Global Approach, International Education
ElKhayat, Ranya S. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
This conceptual paper is a future study aiming to shed light on the current state of higher education in the MENA region. The neoliberal agenda for higher education in the region presents a form of education that is commodified, corporatized and focused on STEM rather than on humanities. The paper further speculates on the state of higher…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Geographic Regions
Xiang, Jing; Yan, Ying – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
Economic globalization not only brings opportunities to all countries in the world, but also brings crises and challenges. The solutions to crises and challenges also entrust education different missions. To this end, there is an urgent need to re-examine the purpose of education, to update the means of education and to change the role of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Economic Climate, Barriers, Role of Education
Barrett, Beverly – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2019
There are dual roles of higher education institutions as recipients of higher education policy and as agents for change in the knowledge economy in their regions and in the world. In the case of academic institutions within the European Union, they are primarily the recipients of policy change influenced by the European level. Secondarily, they…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, College Role, Educational Policy, Change Agents
Brian, Terri – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2016
Over the past few decades, the world has experienced a period of major social, economic and political change. Globalisation has placed increasing pressure on our work, families and communities and is continuously transforming the way we live in the 21st century. Internationally, and despite calls for freedom and equality, social and economic…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education
Cabau, Béatrice – Athens Journal of Education, 2014
In 2004, i.e. seven years after the retrocession of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China (PRC), the then Chief Executive aimed to promote the former British colony as 'Asia's world city'. The same year, the University Grants Committee echoed this ambition by envisaging the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) as becoming an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Aspiration, Expectation, Foreign Countries
Drainville, André C. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
This paper takes a longue durée look at universities at the core of the world economy, where the modern idea of intellectuals as trustees of the reflexive structures of society has achieved its most enduring institutional form. To wrest thinking away from a conformism that makes us see universities as nothing more than organisations amongst…
Descriptors: Universities, Higher Education, Educational History, Trustees