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Bhanji, Zahra – Comparative Education Review, 2012
The purpose of this article is to explore Microsoft Corporation as a new international actor shaping educational reforms and practices. This study examines how the implementation of Microsoft's global Partners in Learning (PiL) program varied and was mediated by national politics and national institutional practices in two different contexts,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Educational Policy
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Armstrong, Gregory – Comparative Education Review, 1984
Long-term centralization of Thailand's Adult Education Division resulted in a preponderance of urban-oriented curriculum in a country that was 80 percent rural. Beginning in 1976, the World Bank-Thai government's Nonformal Education Development Project facilitated decentralization by sharply increasing rural staff, offering new career…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Decentralization, Educational Change
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Kwong, Julia – Comparative Education Review, 1979
The educational programs of the Great Leap Forward (GLF) represented the first organized attempt by the Chinese government to restructure and align the educational system with the national economy. The educational policies of the GLF ultimately foundered because of patterned inertia within the educational system.(Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Change, Educational History