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Craig, Cheryl J., Ed.; Mena, Juanjo, Ed.; Kane, Ruth G., Ed. – Advances in Research on Teaching, 2023
Research on teacher education and classroom teaching has evolved significantly in recent decades, with more research taking an international or intersectional lens. The International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) has moved with the field, beginning as a predominantly white European and North American organization in 1983, it…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Research
King, C. Judson, Ed.; Douglass, John Aubrey, Ed. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2007
In the spring of 1957, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California, Berkeley was formally established as an organized research unit, enabled by an initial grant from the Carnegie Corporation and making it the first academic enterprise in the United States focused on higher education policy issues. Since then,…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Higher Education, International Studies, Global Approach
Rokicka, Wanda, Ed. – 1999
In 1997, The International Bureau of Education (IBE) launched a series of case studies on the processes involved in the use of educational information and research. These studies describe how recent educational research has been disseminated and how educational reforms may have benefited, or not benefited, from insights gained through research.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Documentation, Educational Change
Purves, Alan C., Ed. – 1989
Increasingly over the past decade there have appeared in the press bar graphs comparing the performance of U.S. students with their counterparts in other countries. Usually these graphs have been accompanied by dire warnings and pointing fingers. The main source of the data on international comparisons has been the International Association for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Beare, H., Ed.; Boyd, W. Lowe, Ed. – 1993
The decade 1980-90 saw a spate of educational reconstruction occurring simultaneously in many countries. This book argues that the school restructuring of the past 10 years has been called the "education-reform movement," but that term is somewhat misleading. The current reform efforts seem to aim primarily at the control and governance of both…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Decentralization, Educational Change
Scrase, Timothy J., Ed. – 1997
The impact of international social change is having a marked effect on developing nations' internal policies, budgets, and development programs. This collection of articles addresses the importance of education in the creation of social policies and development policies; the effect of international changes on education; the investment of limited…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Opportunities
Husen, Torsten, Ed. – 1994
This collection of 12 essays is drawn from a May 1990 panel meeting in Paris, France in conjunction with a joint United Nations University/United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization project on "The Changing Role of the Universities." Papers are grouped into those on: the general role of the university, regional…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Instruction, College Role