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Kamal Raj Devkota; Ulrike Hanemann – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
There is a long tradition of intergenerational transfer of knowledge in Nepali communities. While local languages are seen as crucial means for preserving, transmitting and applying traditional knowledge, ongoing social change has raised concern that local languages and knowledge as foundations of learning and cultural identity are being weakened.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Nonformal Education, Educational Anthropology
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Nguyen, Huong Thu; Phan, Huong Le Thanh; Tran, Ly Thi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
Over the past decades, the Vietnamese government has strategically encouraged the import of the 'Western' curriculum through the so-called Advanced Programmes. It is envisioned that by learning from the more advanced systems such as Australia, Canada, the US, and the UK, Vietnamese universities will be able to overhaul their outdated curriculum…
Descriptors: International Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Western Civilization, Foreign Countries
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Tan, Charlene; Chua, Catherine S. K. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
Recent education reform in China reflects the global trend of education policy borrowing from Anglophone countries such as the USA. The reform in China essentially advocates shifting from knowledge reproduction and didacticism to knowledge construction by students through a learner-centredness approach. Aware of the trend of borrowing policy from…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Proverbs, Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Countries
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Smail, Amy – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
The Child-Centred Approach (CCA) is increasingly promoted within India and internationally as a response to the challenge of delivering quality education. From identifying and examining Indian indigenous and global concepts of CCA within traditional and contemporary child-centred pedagogic discourse, this paper reveals the complexities of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher Role, Educational Quality
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Hart, Victor; Whatman, Susan; McLaughlin, Juliana; Sharma-Brymer, Vinathe – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
This paper argues from the standpoint that embedding Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in Australian curricula occurs within a space of tension, "the cultural interface", in negotiation and contestation with other dominant knowledge systems. In this interface, Indigenous knowledge is in a state of constancy and flux, invisible and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Teaching Methods
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Balarin, Maria; Benavides, Martin – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This paper draws attention to processes of policy implementation in developing contexts, and to the unintended consequences of education policies that follow international policy scripts without enough consideration of local histories and cultures. Drawing on a study of teaching practices in Peruvian rural secondary schools after a period of…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Secondary Schools