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Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
Norwegian society is becoming increasingly heterogeneous. In order to meet challenges and provide conditions for high quality kindergartens "The National Kindergarten Act" and the "Norwegian Framework Plan for Kindergartens" are under revision (period 2013 to 2016). A central challenge of this is how to formulate ideas that…
Descriptors: Play, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Torres, Carlos Alberto – European Journal of Education, 2015
This article focuses on the role of global universities and globalisations in an age of global interdependence and cosmopolitanism. Competing agendas that result from actions and reactions to multiple globalisations are considered in relation to global citizenship education. These agendas are crucial in understanding dilemmas of the local and the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Global Education, Universities, Citizenship
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Jackson, Mandy – Journal of Research in International Education, 2005
This article explores the importance of the host culture in the development of international mindedness in the pupils of an international school. It puts forward a model for engagement based on Allport's contact theory and examines the success of one such model resulting from co-operation between the International School of Maastricht and its…
Descriptors: International Schools, Secondary Schools, Local Norms, Indigenous Knowledge