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Diana Gonçalves Vidal Ed.; Vivian Batista da Silva Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
This collection encompasses a period that spans two centuries, in which Brazil serves as a point of departure and of arrival for the analyses of circuits that, intertwined within the national borders, stimulate the reflection about international transits, hybridizations, and appropriations in a process of transnational circulation of subjects and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational History, Historiography, Educational Development
Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann Ed.; Marc Fabian Buck Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
The first of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic, this volume gathers international perspectives to critically assess how Waldorf education has been perceived and discussed in both public and academic arenas. The book thereby challenges the historical concept of Waldorf education as an international movement championing…
Descriptors: Reputation, Educational History, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy
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Novotná, Jarmila; Gosztonyi, Katalin; Hošpesová, Alena; Fried, Katalin; Moraová, Hana; Gordon Gyori, János – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2021
The aim of the paper is to show whether the systems of mathematics teacher education in two countries whose historical development may seem quite similar (the Czech Republic and Hungary were parts of the Habsburg Monarchy, and they were part of the Eastern European communist block) are also very similar, or whether each country follows its own,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Development, Educational History
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Nikolay Popov; Teodora Genova – International Perspectives on Education and Society, 2019
The authors of this chapter focus on the development of comparative education in 10 countries of Eastern and Central Europe. A historical approach is applied to the study of the main characteristics of comparative education. The first part of the chapter is devoted to the origin of comparative education studies in this region from the fifteenth to…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Social Systems
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C. C. Wolhuter – International Perspectives on Education and Society, 2019
Over the past 65 years, Sub-Saharan Africa has been the terrain of the biggest education expansion drive in human history (Wolhuter & Van Niekerk, 2009). On top of this expansion, Africa has been the site of imaginative experiments and innovations in education (Samoff & Carrol, 2013, p. 403). These all seem to offer attractive and fertile…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational History, Higher Education
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Eklof, Ben; Lisovskaya, Elena – European Education, 2020
The articles in this cluster explore the past and present trajectories of educational change in Russia from the 18th century to the present day. The authors focus on the multiple social actors, visions, forces, and changes that in combination brought about Russia's modern educational realities. The emphasis in these contributions is put upon the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Outcomes of Education, Comparative Education
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Stuart Shaw; Nicky Rushton; Dominika Majewska – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2022
This paper seeks to identify significant trends in mathematics curricula and teaching approaches in two education systems: the United States (a highly decentralised education system) and England (a highly centralised education system), with focus on 16-to-19-year-olds. The paper adopts a two-fold perspective: an historical overview, and comparison…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Curriculum
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Roos, Merethe – History of Education, 2021
The article presents and analyses the first part of Norwegian educator Hartvig Nissen's (1815-1874) comprehensive report from his study tour to Scotland in 1853. Nissen occupies an important place in Norwegian nineteenth-century educational history and in nineteenth-century history in general, and he is regarded as the main driving force behind…
Descriptors: Educational History, Comparative Education, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Attitudes
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Bonoli, Lorenzo; Gonon, Philipp – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2022
Vocational education and training (VET) systems around the world serve many aims, the most important of which can be grouped into three main aims: economic, social and educational aims. These different aims find their roots in different socio-cultural and economic contexts and their importance in the functioning of the systems evolves according to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Objectives, Economic Factors, Discourse Analysis
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Davidson, Petrina M.; Dzotsinedze, Nino; Park, Maureen F.; Wiseman, Alexander W. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
The 50-year anniversary of "Compare" creates a moment to reflect on the trends and status of the journal itself and where it is situated in the field of comparative and international education. This article presents an examination of "Compare's" articles to consider how the contents have reflected trends and changes in CIE. The…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Comparative Education, Trend Analysis, International Education
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Stevens, Mitchell L.; Shibanova, Ekaterina – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
We provide a framework for integrating sociological and political-historical approaches to the worldwide expansion of higher education in the twentieth century. Doing so enables scholars and policymakers to better identify variation across place and time in how the provision of higher education has been rendered culturally meaningful and…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Higher Education, Educational History, Educational Development
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Kim, Eunjoo; Zhang, Jie; Sun, Xiaoke – International Journal of Special Education, 2019
Given the contextual conditions in each country, the United States, Korea, and China all have their own unique history of special education, which leads to different special education and service systems for students with special needs. The purpose of this paper is to compare the development and current status of special education in all three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Special Education, Educational Development
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Hansen, Petteri; Wallenius, Tommi; Juvonen, Sara; Varjo, Janne – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Throughout history educational leaders have looked to other countries and have attempted to learn by borrowing useful examples to implement in their own educational systems. As recent comparative policy research shows, processes of policy lending and borrowing have their own socio-historically defined dynamics. In this paper, the authors approach…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Cross Cultural Studies, Specialists
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Valiente, Oscar; Sepúlveda, Leandro; Zancajo, Adrián – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Mainstream approaches in comparative education have paid more attention to trends in donors' priorities than to policy processes in recipient countries, overlooking the agency of national governments in the institutional configuration of vocational education and training (VET) in developing contexts. Drawing on constructivist political economy and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Vocational Education, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
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Jules, Tavis D. – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2020
This article builds upon Robert Cowen's (1996) work on educational coding in transitological settings and post-spaces by deciphering the efficacy of political and economic compressions in Tunisia from the French protectorate period to the 2011 post-Jasmine revolution. First, I diachronically decrypt and elucidate the specific experiences and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Change, Postcolonialism, Political Influences
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