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Frankowski, Andrea; van der Steen, Martijn; Bressers, Daphne; Schulz, Martin; Shewbridge, Claire; Fuster, Marc; Rouw, Rien – OECD Publishing, 2018
Prepared for a Strategic Education Governance learning seminar, this working paper analyses the ways in which the Dutch government tried to reach overarching goals in education, in a system characterised by a high degree of distributed autonomy of education institutions and the participation of multiple actors, and consequently a government highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
Forestier, Katherine; Crossley, Michael – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
This paper analyses how the impact of international student achievement studies and the recent economic crisis in Europe are influencing the development of educational policy transfer and borrowing, from East to West. This is contrasted with education reform movements in East Asia, which have long legacies of borrowing from so-called…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Policy, Case Studies, Educational Change
Tanyas, Bahar – Journal of Youth Studies, 2012
Until recently, children and young people's experiences of international migration and mobility have received minimal attention. Young migrants are either neglected in migration and childhood/youth studies or depicted in theoretically essentialist frameworks as model or problem ethnic minorities. This paper focuses on a neglected issue with…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Immigration
Robins, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The study investigated the divergence in beginning reading methods between the United States (US) and England from 1998 to 2010. Researchers, policy makers, and publishers were interviewed to explore their knowledge and perceptions concerning how literacy policy was determined. The first three of twelve findings showed that despite the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Phonics, Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries

O'Sullivan, Denis – Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative, 1993
Develops the concept of policy model as an analytical tool for educational policy studies, using the Irish educational system as the cultural setting. Defines policy models as frameworks embodying linguistic, normative, and epistemic dimensions governing policy processes. Describes characteristics of policy model in relation to aspects of the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Naz Foundation, London (England). – 1995
A consultation was sponsored by the European Commission, the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, and the United Kingdom Department of Health to explore the specific needs of ethnic minority communities in European countries for culturally and linguistically appropriate Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Agency Cooperation, Conferences, Cultural Differences
Lévesque, Stéphane – Canadian Social Studies, 2005
This article addresses the second-order concept of "historical significance" and attempts to answer the question of what criteria are used to make decisions about it in history and school history. Specifically, it explores the way Francophone and Anglophone students ascribe significance to selected historical events in Canada and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Concept Teaching, Teaching Methods

Jasanoff, Sheila – Evaluation Review, 1991
Cross-national differences in political, legislative, administrative, regulatory, and judicial systems that may present obstacles to reaching international agreements are discussed. These differences are identified from research comparing the regulation of chemical hazards in Europe and the United States. Implications for the problem of global…
Descriptors: Chemical Industry, Climate, Comparative Analysis, Conflict Resolution