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Kabir, Ariful Haq – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
The concept 'network governance' has become widespread and is often believed to occur in a Western environment. Is network governance applicable to other contexts and what can we learn from it in Bangladeshi context? This paper outlines how the idea of 'network governance' emerged and how it operates in a neoliberal higher education…
Descriptors: Governance, Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Content Analysis
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Hajisoteriou, Christina; Angelides, Panayiotis – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
Globalisation has heavily influenced the terrain of intercultural education policy development and implementation in multiple countries around the world. To this end, in this article, we seek to introduce a broader focus of analysis encompassing not only the development of globalised policies of intercultural education, but also the adoption,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Spotti, Massimiliano; Kroon, Sjaak; Li, Jinling – Language Policy, 2019
This paper explores the intersection of new speakers in conditions of globalisation led mobility and it investigates the implications the phenomena may have for language policy making. It first describes two historical phases in language policy development that are closely related to a sociolinguistics of stability. In this, it criticises how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Planning, Mandarin Chinese, Indo European Languages
Stahelin, Nicolas – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research is a qualitative case study of global and national (Brazilian) Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) policies in historical perspectives. My overall objectives are two-fold: First, to understand how global ESE policy frameworks have evolved ideologically over time--a concept I refer to as ESE policy trajectories; and…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Environmental Education, Sustainability
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Ljosland, Ragnhild – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
This paper deals with policymaking in the higher education sector as an activity which happens on many levels, with many and varying interests involved. As the present thematic issue highlights, language is present in higher education policymaking, whether explicitly or implicitly. This special issue's initial claim is that "Policy is what…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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Chong, Pei Wen; Graham, Linda J. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2013
International comparison is complicated by the use of different terms, classification methods, policy frameworks and system structures, not to mention different languages and terminology. Multi-case studies can assist in the understanding of the influence wielded by cultural, social, economic, historical and political forces upon educational…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Educational Research
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Hamilton, Mary – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
This paper explores the relationship between global, regional and local influences on adult literacy policy and practice in the UK through a discourse analysis of policy-related texts. The analysis is framed by theoretical perspectives from literacy studies and socio-material theory. The paper identifies a number of specific features in the UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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Tota, Pasqua Marina – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
This article discusses the involvement of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) in transnational education policy-making, with particular reference to the global initiative Education for All (EFA). EFA is a policy process carried out by international governmental organisations (IGOs) with the main aim to achieve basic education for…
Descriptors: Institutional Role, Nongovernmental Organizations, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Renc-Roe, Joanna; Roxå, Torgny – Education Inquiry, 2014
This article presents a case study of the internationalisation of an Engineering School at a leading Swedish University. The case study is an attempt to sketch out a more qualitative analytical approach to the study of internationalisation, focusing on the interplay between agency and structure and policy and practice as constructed by actors on…
Descriptors: Universities, Organizational Culture, Case Studies, International Education
Britez, Rodrigo Gustavo – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation is concerned with the idea of global policy transfer, as it has increasingly appeared in the literature of policy studies, and has been used to understand recent educational policy transformations around the world. To carry out this investigation, I have conducted a case study of higher education in Paraguay in order to determine…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Errante, Antoinette – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
As globalization has rendered knowledge constitutive of global economic capital, scholars have shifted their attention regarding Bourdieu's (1973) notion of cultural capital from one focused on the reproduction of inequalities through the processes of distribution of "official knowledge" to a focus the processes whereby dominant groups…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Policy Formation, Educational Research, Global Approach
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Holford, John – European Educational Research Journal, 2008
How far is the European Union a vehicle for inclusion and empowerment of a new range of policy actors in education? This article explores the role of actors in policy formation through a case study. It examines European Union attempts since 2000 to develop indicators of "active citizenship" and "education and training for active…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Citizenship, Educational Policy, Case Studies
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Buczynski, Sandy; Lattimer, Heather; Inoue, Noriyuki; Alexandrowicz, Viviana – Teaching Education, 2010
This case study describes the process education faculty went through to craft a response to a school-wide international experience initiative. Analysis revealed three competing frames that shaped individual faculty members' expectations. This made developing an internationalization requirement in graduate teacher education multifaceted, often…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Graduate Study
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Jakobi, Anja P. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2009
In recent years, policy scholars have increasingly turned towards the international level as a source for national policy change. This article conceptualises this development as the emergence of a global policy field of education. The example of lifelong learning is given to illustrate this global policy process. In the first part, I introduce…
Descriptors: Global Education, Lifelong Learning, Public Policy, Educational Policy
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Hajisoteriou, Christina – European Educational Research Journal, 2010
Historically, education policy making has been interwoven with the nation-building project. However, the centrality of the nation state in education policy making has been constrained by a wide range of new socio-political and economic phenomena that relate to European integration. This article explores the ways in which European education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Global Approach, Cultural Pluralism
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