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Kosack, Stephen – Comparative Education, 2009
The goal of Education for All (EFA) is in jeopardy, and the cause is widely perceived to be a lack of political will. But we lack an accurate definition of political will. In this article, I offer a definition that determines beforehand whether a government will have political will. In contrast to current academic work and popular discourse, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Politics of Education, Political Influences
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Little, Angela W.; Green, Andy – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This article examines the role of education in "successful globalisation" and how this links with agendas for sustainable development. In the first part "successful globalisation" is defined as economic growth combined with equality and social peace. Japan and the East Asian tiger economies--particularly South Korea and…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
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Lucas, Christopher J. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1981
Discusses the importance of Taiwan's system of vocational-industrial education to its history of political stability and continuing economic prosperity. (JOW)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Land, Ming H. – School Shop, 1976
Addresses the heritage of vocational education in Taiwan, recent developments, plans and projects, technical education, a new era, and challenges. (HD)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Development, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
Lee, Lung-Sheng – 2002
Technology education (TE) in Taiwan is implemented in elementary, junior high, senior high, and comprehensive high schools. Since 2001, the new curriculum syllabus for grades 1-9 reflects the call for educational reform in such areas as articulation, integration, and flexibility of reform. The national curriculum for grades 10-12 is being revised;…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Development
Ashton, David; Green, Francis; James, Donna; Sung, Johnny – 1999
This book provides a detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia and the relationship with the process of economic growth. Focus is on four impoverished agrarian economies--Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan--that were transformed in little more than a generation into East Asian "tigers":…
Descriptors: Boomtowns, Case Studies, Developed Nations, Developing Nations