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Reconstructing Policy Transfer in Adult and Vocational Education and Training
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Barabasch, Antje; Bohlinger, Sandra; Wolf, Stefan – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
The article contributes to the understanding of educational policy transfer with a particular focus on VET and labour-market related training. A review of VET policy transfer literature is followed by a description of travelling VET reforms in adult and vocational education and training around the globe. Historical foundations of VET policy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Technology Transfer
Education Faculty Perspectives on a Borrowed Teacher Education Initiative in Northern Pakistan: A Call for Engaging the Discourses of Policy Borrowing and Decolonization
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Sarfaroz Niyozov; Abdul Wali Khan – Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 2024
This qualitative case study examines the Education Faculty Perspectives (EFPs) of the Karakoram Public International University in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, on teachers' experiences of a recently introduced education reform (an Honor's Bachelor of Education program [B. Ed Hons] mandated by Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) in 2010.…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Educational Change, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Internationalization of Higher Education: Implications for Policy Making
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Wadhwa, Rashim; Jha, Shashiranjan – Higher Education for the Future, 2014
During the last decade education worldwide has experienced massive changes ranging from domestic market inauguration to the internationalization. In due course of time, there has been a great urge for restructuring the education system to make it internationally comparable ensuring economic benefit. The developed countries have dominated through…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
The Two Cultures Debate Today.
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Smith, Ralph A. – Oxford Review of Education, 1978
Discusses the "two cultures debate," initiated in 1959, which emphasized the moral obligation of rich countries to help poor ones, and the need to reform education in order to provide people with a common culture that included scientific literacy. Article examines reactions to the theory in 1959, directions the debate took, and status of the…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Intellectual Development
Strategies for Curriculum Change and the Question of International Transfer.
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Crossley, Michael – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1984
There is a tendency in Western countries to view school-centered innovation (SCI) as the new panacea for the problems of curriculum change. To investigate the potential and limitations of SCI in developing countries, a case study of the Secondary Schools Community Extension Project in Papua New Guinea was conducted. (RM)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Vocational Education and Training Literacy and Numeracy. Review of Research.
Watson, Moira; Nicholson, Lindsay; Sharplin, Elaine – 2001
Since the "Kangan Report" (1974), literacy and numeracy (L&N) issues have become an integral component of policy development in Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector. Debate in the literature is based on competing discourses: functional-economic and social practice. These discourses and globalization of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Cross Cultural Training, Developed Nations
What Counts As Mathematics?: Technologies of Power in Adult and Vocational Education. Mathematics Education Library.
Fitzsimons, Gail E. – 2002
This book, aimed at mathematics and vocational educators and researchers, analyzes the historical, sociological, and practical elements of mathematics within vocational education against the emerging impact of technology. Focus is on the current situation of mathematics within Australian vocational and technical education and how that might be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Cultural Images, Developed Nations