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Lubienski, Christopher; Perry, Laura B.; Kim, Jina; Canbolat, Yusuf – Comparative Education, 2022
In recent decades, policymakers around the globe have adopted market mechanisms such as consumer-style choice, provider autonomy and competition. Such policies may improve educational equity since families can choose options outside of their assigned local school. Yet research from multiple countries is finding a link between greater use of such…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Consumer Economics, Competition, Educational Policy
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Le, Hang; Edwards, D. Brent, Jr. – Comparative Education, 2023
Since the 1990s, Singapore has firmly established its reputation in the global education policy space as one of the best education systems in the world. However, existing policy transfer literature on Singapore has been mainly interested in Singapore as a decontextualised, ahistorical case, rather than as a unique player in the global education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Reputation, Educational Policy
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Auld, Euan; Morris, Paul – Comparative Education, 2016
Education reform is increasingly portrayed as a means to improve a nation's global competitiveness as measured by its performance in international league tables of pupil achievement. This has created a demand for comparative research which identifies "what works" in high-performing school systems. A diverse array of consultancies, thinks…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Educational Policy, Best Practices, Educational Change
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Mincu, Monica E. – Comparative Education, 2015
In the current context of intensified moves towards educational deregulation, the configuration of the Italian middle school and its relationship to education governance is an interesting case. Historically, it represents a unique example of the successful "decision-making" model of the welfarist era. Despite some internal constraints,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Cultural Influences, Educational Administration, Governance
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Bulle, Nathalie – Comparative Education, 2011
The PISA survey influences educational policies through an international competitive process which is not wholly rationally-oriented. Firstly, PISA league tables act normatively upon the definition of formal educational aims while the survey tests cannot evaluate the educational systems' relative strengths with regards to such aims. We argue that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment, Competition
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Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle – Comparative Education, 2010
This introductory paper emphasises the importance of sustained inter disciplinary engagement and context sensitivity for a holistic approach to policy studies. It introduces a model on possible perspectives that can be adopted in researching (language education) policy actions in different contexts. It proposes that questions on the…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Models
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Yamada, Shoko – Comparative Education, 2008
This study explores the extent to which American educational ideas made an impact on policy-making and practice of education in British African colonies between the two World Wars. The analysis re-examines the apparent "borrowing" of American black industrial education models for application in Africa. It is argued that, while the view…
Descriptors: Industrial Education, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Educational Policy
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Colclough, Christopher – Comparative Education, 2012
Human capital and functionalist paradigms underpin the stance taken by most governments to education policy. These models have also had a profound effect upon the determination of education priorities in the poorest states and, indeed, upon aid policy. This paper argues, on the basis of evidence from the papers in this volume and from the wider…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change, Poverty
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Lo, William Yat Wai – Comparative Education, 2011
The purpose of this article is to analyse the nature of the global hegemonies in higher education. While anti-colonial thinkers describe the dominance of the Western paradigm as an oppression of indigenous culture and knowledge and as neo-colonialism in higher education, their arguments lead to such questions as how much self-determination do…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Global Approach, Higher Education
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Nkrumah-Young, Kofi K.; Huisman, Jeroen; Powell, Philip – Comparative Education, 2008
This paper analyses the changes in the higher education funding policies and resource allocation models of the Jamaican government in the period 1962-2003. Throughout these four decades, four different systems were in force. This paper focuses particularly on the arguments for the funding policies and models and the impact of the models on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Educational Policy
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Takeda, Nazumi; Williams, James – Comparative Education, 2008
This paper examines educational policies toward indigenous minorities in Japan and Canada during the period of nation-building, from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. Both Japan and Canada first segregated indigenous children into separate educational institutions and then tried to assimilate…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Minority Groups
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Bujazan, Michael; And Others – Comparative Education, 1987
At the policy level, the World Bank and other aid agencies evidence a practical orientation, emphasizing problems described as solvable by expertise and improved use of capital. In reality, tension exists between educational planning based on positivistic, technical rationality and political interaction grounded in situational considerations. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Agencies, Agency Role, Comparative Education, Decision Making
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Halasz, Gabor – Comparative Education, 1986
Explains a theoretical framework for interpreting educational policy-making and, on the basis of that framework, identifies educational policy makers and policy changes in Hungary in the 1960s and 1970s. Tests the theory by examining controversies about secondary education and the structure of the educational system. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Education, Decision Making, Economic Climate
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Lane, Jan-Erik; Stenlund, Hans – Comparative Education, 1983
An unintended outcome of Swedish higher education reform, and one detrimental to academic work, was that the more numerous the reforms, the larger the size of the coordinating bodies above the local units and the more rapid the growth in bureaucratic personnel within local institutions of the higher education system. (MH)
Descriptors: Administrators, Bureaucracy, College Administration, College Governing Councils
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Dale, Roger – Comparative Education, 2001
Examines the local conditions that enabled the development and installation of the New Zealand model of neoliberalism and new public management, characteristics that made it desirable and that would allow its incorporation at a global level, and how implementation was accomplished. Draws implications for the relationship between comparative…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Criticism, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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