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Does Universal Primary Education Policy Weaken Decentralisation? Participation and Accountability Frameworks in East Africa
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Sasaoka, Yuichi; Nishimura, Mikiko – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
This article critically reflects upon the "divides" among actors within two currently popular education policies in low-income countries: decentralisation and Universal Primary Education (UPE). Current literatures suggest that the existing decentralisation framework tends to overlook the "divides" among actors that often impede…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Governance, Foreign Countries, Accountability
Consequences of Centralization and Decentralization in Vocational Administration--A Comparison of Vocational Administration in Iraq and United States.
Mezel, Jamal Assad; Strong, Merle E. – 1989
This paper describes the history, organization, and administration of vocational education in the United States and Iraq, contrasting the highly centralized Iraqi system with the decentralized system in the United States. The paper also compares and contrasts the possible strengths and weaknesses of the two systems in terms of their organization,…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Decentralization, Delivery Systems
Community-Based Language Planning: A Movement Needed and Starting in West Africa. Publication H-7.
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Kozelka, Paul R. – 1985
National language planning involves four interdependent processes that ideally constitute a cycle: fact-finding, policy formation, implementation, and evaluation. Each of these processes is more difficult in the relatively young but highly pluralistic nations of Africa. A community-based model of language planning offers ways to alleviate or…
Descriptors: African Languages, Centralization, Community Role, Comparative Analysis
System of Training Library Workers and Improvement of Their Professional Skill in the U.S.S.R. Reaction paper by Charles D. Churchwell.
Abramov, K. I. – 1979
The organization and development of the library education system in the USSR is described by K. I. Abramov of the Moscow State Institute of Culture and is summarized in a comment paper by Charles D. Churchwell, Washington University. Abramov begins by stating the philosophical basis for the existence of libraries and librarians in the USSR, and…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Educational Development, Educational Programs
The Cultural Context of Educational Policy: Brazil and the United States.
Dias, Jose Augusto; Lynch, Patrick D. – 1984
Both Brazil's and the United States's educational policies are influenced by centralization of administration and formal objectives mandated by law. Arising from a long division in Brazilian life between government and people, public schools have been seen to be the concern of the government, which has preserved the antiquated division of…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal), Cultural Differences
The Problem of Centralization: Health and Education Policies in Great Britain and the United States.
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Hanneman, Robert A.; Hollingsworth, J. Rogers – 1978
The paper compares aspects of decision making in health and education in the United States and Great Britain from 1890-1970. The major purpose is to demonstrate variety in the degree of centralization within the two policy areas during this period. Centralization is defined as the degree to which all resources of a given type are controlled by one…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education