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Sajid Ali; Afaq Ahmed – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Countries in the global South, such as Pakistan, face challenges to determine their education policies without any external pressures. The national sphere of authority of the state has to deal with both global and national policy pressures. The travelling policy gets embedded in the local context adjusting to the local demands. However, for this…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Educational Policy
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Ghosh, Ratna – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2020
The concept of Southern Theory is a response to Northern sociological theory, which is considered to be incomplete because it does not consider global dynamics, which would include the life-experiences of people of the South and the impact of socio-cultural changes brought about by colonialism and globalization. Raewyn Connell introduced the term…
Descriptors: Indians, Foreign Policy, Developing Nations, Global Approach
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McGregor, Rafe; Park, Miriam Sang-Ah – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
The purpose of this article is to argue for the deconstruction rather than the decolonisation of the neocolonial curriculum. Globalisation facilitates the democratisation of higher education, which is now accessible to more people than ever before, but globalisation also facilitates the expansion of the ideological dominance of the Global North…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Global Approach, Access to Education
US Agency for International Development, 2019
USAID believes that education is a foundational driver of development and fundamental to achieving selfreliance. When children and youth go to school and receive training in skills they can use in the workforce and to navigate life, they are able to build more hopeful and prosperous futures for themselves, their families, communities, and…
Descriptors: International Organizations, International Programs, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
US Agency for International Development, 2018
USAID's education work focuses on improving the reading skills of children; strengthening youth workforce development and higher education; and expanding access to quality education in crisis and conflict environments. They partner to leverage resources and expertise, strengthen education systems and drive change so that children and youth can…
Descriptors: International Organizations, International Programs, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
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van Jaarsveldt, Lisa C.; de Vries, Michiel S.; Kroukamp, Hendri J. – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
The decolonialisation of the higher education curriculum and free higher education were two of the burning issues during student protests that erupted across universities in South Africa at the end of 2015. Although the president announced free higher education in December 2017, the country can scarcely afford it, with many universities already…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Foreign Policy, Social Action
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Guilherme, Alexandre; Morosini, Marilia; Kohls dos Santos, Pricila – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2018
This article presents a study that analyses interviews of African students participating in the PEC academic mobility programme, so to gain an understanding of the individual and corporate experience of living and studying in Brazil. However, our analysis also demonstrates a highly significant finding that the historical process of colonisation,…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Foreign Policy
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Anand, Pranit; Lui, Byron – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
There is widespread agreement that collaboration, teamwork and intercultural competence, among others, are essential 21st century skills. Higher education teaching and learning initiatives tend to have a significant focus on developing these skills through assessments and other in-class activities, and yet often do not take advantage of…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, International Cooperation, Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries
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Blanco Ramírez, Gerardo – Tertiary Education and Management, 2014
Accountability and quality assurance have become central discourses in higher education policy throughout the world. However, accountability and quality assurance involve power and control. Practices and ideas about quality developed in the Global North are spreading rapidly across the Global South, leading to increased uniformity in the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Foreign Policy
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Harshman, Jason – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2017
The transnational movement of people and ideas continues to reshape how we imagine places and cultures. Considering the volume of information and entertainment delivered and consumed via mass media, global educators are tasked with engaging students in learning activities that help them develop skill sets that include a globally minded, critical…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Cultural Awareness, Critical Literacy, Media Literacy
Orelus, Pierre W., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"A Decolonizing Encounter" examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the West and the "third world". Specifically, it explores crucial issues such as the decolonizing of schools and communities of color; the decentralization of power of the capitalist and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Democracy, Global Approach, Foreign Policy
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Beja, Edsel L., Jr. – Social Indicators Research, 2013
The subjective well-being approach to the valuation of international development is applied to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Results indicate that the rich countries have particular preference for education, healthcare, and housing; they are willing to accept compensation for a failure to meet the three targets by 2015. The poor…
Descriptors: Well Being, Economically Disadvantaged, Evidence, Foreign Policy
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Stirling, John – McGill Journal of Education, 2013
This article presents an analysis of the development of a trade union education program in Sierra Leone in the geo-historical context of British colonialism. It places the argument in relation to the contradictory trends of trade unionism more generally and alongside their antagonistic cooperation with capitalism. It discusses the limits and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Union Members, Land Settlement, Power Structure
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Armstrong, Derrick; Armstrong, Ann Cheryl; Spandagou, Ilektra – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
This paper explores the development internationally of the inclusive education perspective. Inclusive education as a late modernity reform project is exemplified in the call for "Education for All". Despite the simplicity of its message, inclusion is highly contestable. We argue in this paper that the key questions raised by the concept of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Educational Change
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Preece, Julia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2009
This paper highlights some tensions regarding lifelong learning discourses for countries which are listed in the lower part of international development indexes. Such countries are often referred to collectively as the "South", though this represents a political focus rather than geographical accuracy and usually represents those…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Change
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