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Smith, Michael; Tsai, Shu-Ling; Mateju, Petr; Huang, Min-Hsiung – Comparative Education Review, 2016
This article presents a comparative analysis of educational inequality by family background and gender in Taiwan and the Czech Republic, which have both experienced substantial educational expansion in the last half-century under different educational systems. We highlight the specific institutional histories of both countries and examine the role…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Access to Education, Equal Education
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O'Donoghue, Tom; Harford, Judith – Comparative Education Review, 2011
This essay argues for the development of a research agenda on the comparative history of Catholic education internationally from the nineteenth century to the present. This requires, in the first instance, the production of a series of individual-country case studies, concentrating on relations between the Catholic Church and the particular state…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholics, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Jakobi, Anja P. – Comparative Education Review, 2011
Education has been featured prominently in recent election campaigns in different countries. This article explains this observation by the idea of a world culture and the global institutionalization of education. It compares party manifestors of 25 OECD countries from 1946 onward, analyzing how education developed in election campaigns over time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Political Campaigns, Political Attitudes
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Wiloch, Tadeusz J.; Atzmon, Ezri – Comparative Education Review, 1976
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Development, Educational History
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Bray, Mark – Comparative Education Review, 1992
Compares the educational systems of Hong Kong and Macau, focusing on differences related to their colonial histories and the different sizes of their populations and economies, and similarities arising from mutual influence and their impending reunification with China. Discusses educational access, finance, curriculum, language of instruction, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Colonialism, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change
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Pape, John – Comparative Education Review, 1998
Compares educational change in Zimbabwe and South Africa in the two years after those countries' first democratic elections. Although change in Zimbabwe was characterized by a rapid expansion of service in response to popular demand, South Africa has emphasized changes in policymaking processes with little change in the delivery of educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Democracy, Educational Change
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Benavot, Aaron – Comparative Education Review, 1996
Evaluates the relative importance of educational, economic, and cultural factors in supporting the emergence and stability of democracy. Data from over 100 countries on long-term changes in democracy, 1965-80 and 1980-88, support an institutional perspective that emphasizes the impact of elite higher education (as opposed to mass education and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Democracy, Economic Factors