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The Knowledge Curve: Combining Types of Knowledges Leads to Powerful Thinking
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Béneker, Tine; van der Vaart, Rob – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2020
Michael Young has written extensively about "powerful knowledge" as the type of knowledge that should be central in education: knowledge that is -- among many other things -- reliable and potentially testable, that helps us understand the natural and social world, and offers us a language to engage meaningfully in moral and political…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Knowledge Level, Migration, Definitions
Appearance and Development of Short-Term Higher Education Vocational Training in Hungary
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Máté-Szabó, Barbara; Tóth, Dorina Anna – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2021
Introduction: This article examines the first level of the European higher education system, namely the short-cycle higher education trainings related to the ISCED 5 whose Hungarian characteristics, and its historical changes were described. Methods: We examined participation rates among OECD countries. As there are large differences in the…
Descriptors: Program Length, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Comparative Education
World Englishes and Postcolonialism: Reading Kachru and Said
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Lok, Ian Mai Chi – World Englishes, 2012
Prompted by a recurrent question from students, this paper examines perspectives from world Englishes and postcolonial studies in relation to one another. Focusing on two critical thinkers, Braj B. Kachru and Edward W. Said, each section highlights relevant themes and ideas from selected works of each scholar and discusses points of convergence…
Descriptors: Language Role, Foreign Policy, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Using Large-Scale Assessments of Students' Learning to Inform Education Policy: Insights from the Asia-Pacific Region
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Tobin, Mollie; Lietz, Petra; Nugroho, Dita; Vivekanandan, Ramya; Nyamkhuu, Tserennadmid – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
Not much is known about the ways in which assessment data have actually been used in education policy to date. Understanding the role of assessments in informing system-level decision-making is a first step towards helping stakeholders improve the design and usefulness of assessments. Moreover, this understanding can help to further discussions…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Measurement, Decision Making, Data Analysis
Socio-Economic Position and Higher Education in Australia
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Sealey, Tim N. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2011
The proportion of students enrolled at university from the lowest quartile of socio-economic position has remained static at around 15% for at least the past 15 years (DEEWR, "Transforming Australia's higher education system," 2009). This paper argues that the apparent lack of progress towards equity of access has been exacerbated due to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Equal Education
Towards an Taxonomy for Australian TAFE Systems.
Boyd, G. D.; Wood, J. M. – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1983
State postsecondary education systems are categorized as (1) separate public service departments; (2) sub-departments of an education department, a state public service; (3) administrative divisions of an education department of a public service; or (4) providers of postsecondary services through corporate institutions and an administrative…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Boards of Education, Classification, Comparative Analysis