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Maloni, Michael J.; Mutlu, Canan C.; Swaim, James A.; Kim, Yoon Hee – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2020
While offshoring represents a polarizing topic, limited pedagogical research helps us understand how to address diverse student offshoring views in the classroom. The present study fills this gap with a survey of undergraduate business students, revealing how resentment toward offshoring differs by student political views and global exposure.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Global Approach, Gender Differences
Adamson, Frank, Ed.; Astrand, Bjorn, Ed.; Darling-Hammond, Linda, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
With contributions from Linda Darling-Hammond, Michael Fullan, Pasi Sahlberg, and Martin Carnoy, "Global Education Reform" is an eye-opening analysis of national educational reforms and the types of high-achieving systems needed to serve all students equitably.The collection documents the ideologically and educationally distinctive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Privatization, Ideology
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Katane, Irena; Kristovska, Ineta; Vjatere, Gita; Katans, Edgars – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2015
The process of globalization and the changeability of environment nowadays demand that society ensure sustainability for itself and its lifewide environment. Therefore nowadays the paradigm of personality's and specialist's competitiveness is changing. The old paradigm is substituted by a set of new viewpoints and concepts. The issue of ensuring…
Descriptors: Competition, Specialists, Global Approach, Research Needs
Lester, Simon – Cato Institute, 2013
Recent developments in higher education--with leading institutions starting to offer courses online--suggest that the Internet is going to disrupt this industry, just as it has already disrupted the music and book industries, as well as many others. We are entering a period of experimentation with new business models for higher education, with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Trade, Competition, Online Courses
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Benedict, Cathy – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2013
With the use of Bruner's concept of story, broad generalizations from the US, and political philosophy, this article suggests that comparisons between music programs throughout the world are meaningless unless we acknowledge how pervasive, insidious, and menacing is the rhetoric of the global market economy. Political philosophy is one process of…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Music Education, Comparative Analysis, Philosophy
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Brown, Phillip; Tannock, Stuart – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
Talk of the rise of a global war for talent and emergence of a new global meritocracy has spread from the literature on human resource management to shape nation-state discourse on managed migration and immigration reform. This article examines the implications that the global war for talent have for education policy. Given that this talent war is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Justice, Social Justice, Sociology
Coulson, Andrew J. – Cato Institute, 2008
Would large-scale, free-market reforms improve educational outcomes for American children? That question cannot be answered by looking at domestic evidence alone. Though innumerable "school choice" programs have been implemented around the United States, none has created a truly free and competitive education marketplace. Existing…
Descriptors: Free Enterprise System, Comparative Education, Global Approach, Evidence
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2009
In the United States, developing "human capital" for both economic and social benefit is an idea as old as the nation itself and led to the emergence of world's first mass higher education system. Now most other nations are racing to expand access to universities and colleges and to expand their role in society. Higher education is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Lubienski, Christopher – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2009
This report seeks to address critical issues such as these by synthesising the evidence on innovations in more market-driven education systems. The analysis draws on data from over 20 OECD and non-OECD countries, including both developed nations that seek to move beyond established systems of state-run schools, and developing nations where formal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Developed Nations, Access to Education
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Glastra, Folke J.; Hake, Barry J.; Schedler, Petra E. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2004
Globalization and individualization have radically changed both the economic system and the personal life world in industrial or postindustrial nation-states. To survive hypercompetition and volatile consumer choice, learning organizations and a workforce engaged in lifelong learning are needed. Constructing "the good life" has become an…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Individualism
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Larson, Thomas D. – Educational Record, 1989
For universities lacking carefully drafted and widely communicated policies and regular scrutiny, involvement in economic development initiatives may exacerbate already serious conflict of interest and commitment concerns among research faculty members and the general public. (MLW)
Descriptors: Competition, Economic Development, Federal Government, Free Enterprise System
Groennings, Sven – 1987
International knowledge and economic competitiveness are linked from three perspectives because appropriate connections are currently not being made between global economic change, the competitiveness of the American economy, and the international aspects of American higher education. Sections provide discussions of the following: an introductory…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Change Strategies, Competition, Developed Nations
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Smith-Stevens, Eileen J.; Shkurti, Drita – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1998
Describes a plan to introduce and achieve a national awareness of agility (and easy entry into the world market) for Albania through the relatively stable higher-education order. Agility's four strategic principles are enriching the customer, cooperating to enhance competitiveness, organizing to master change and uncertainty, and leveraging the…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Competition, Creativity, Economic Change
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Rallo, Joseph C. – International Studies Notes, 1991
Urges the internationalization of the engineering curriculum to prepare students for the rigors of global competition in the international marketplace. Lists accreditation pressures and market incentives as barriers to needed diversity. Discusses engineering programs at several schools. Concludes that interdisciplinary inquiry is needed to provide…
Descriptors: Competition, Curriculum Development, Economic Opportunities, Educational Objectives
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Cogan, John J.; Grossman, David L. – Social Education, 1991
Discusses the influence of Japan on educational reform in the United States. Identifies economic self-interest and global competitiveness as the motivations for increased U.S. instruction about Asia and the Pacific region. Expresses concern that such a competitive outlook is unlikely to produce a global perspective. (DK)
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Competition, Curriculum Development, Economics
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