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Kasper, Tomáš; Kasperová, Dana – History of Education, 2018
The first part of the study focuses on the characteristics and analysis of Zlín as an example of a company town. Life in the company town is characterised as a means of forming 'a new man' in Bat'a's Zlín. The second section analyses the aims of worker education in Bat'a's Zlín (in the so-called Bat'a school of work) and highlights the methods and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Community Characteristics, Labor Education
Mamvuto, Attwell – Teaching Artist Journal, 2019
African art education discourse is deeply enshrined in community visual arts and its programming. This article is an analytical narrative documentation of anecdotal historical debate on art education in Zimbabwe. The referential data-based entry provides a historical analysis of the evolution of art education and its programming as a post-CIET…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Visual Arts, Educational History
Nauman, April D. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2018
After reading about the successful Finnish education system, a group of American educators traveled to Finland on an 8-day study tour of three cities to observe several schools and talk with educators there. In this reflective paper, the author describes and analyzes certain aspects of Finnish education as compared with public education in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, School Culture, Foreign Culture
Révai, Nóra – OECD Publishing, 2018
This paper reviews evidence on the interplay between professional standards for teachers, the content of teacher education and educational sciences, and provides three case studies to illustrate these interactions from Estonia, Australia and Singapore. In particular, it investigates what aligning teacher education programmes to standards really…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Standards, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Education Programs
Duka, Oleh – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2017
In the article, some countries' experience in organizing professional training and activities of probation officers has been analyzed. Based on comparative analysis of activities of the Probation Institute abroad, it has been determined that probation service has different functional and organizational features in individual countries. For…
Descriptors: Professional Training, Caseworkers, Comparative Analysis, Learning Activities
Neoh, Jia Ying – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper compares citizenship education in Singapore and Australia. While discussions have been made about education and neoliberalism, few have explored the direct connections between citizenship education and neoliberalism. Approach: Though a discussion of country contexts, citizenship education policies and curriculum,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Citizenship Education, Civics
Vally, Salim; Motala, Enver – Education as Change, 2017
This article conceptualises the overall relationship between a democratic society, socially useful labour and its implications for education and training and unemployment, particularly youth unemployment. The article analyses the ideas and practices that are dominant in the language, ideologies and practices of human capital theory--a theory which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Democratic Values, Unemployment
Creese, Brian; Isaacs, Tina – Curriculum Journal, 2016
Although England was not included in the International Instructional Systems Study because it was not a high-performing jurisdiction by the Study's definition, contributors largely were England-based. Analysing the Study's nine overall aspects of instructional systems, this paper finds that England is out of step with many of the high-performing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Instructional Systems, National Curriculum
Luka, Ineta; Sungsri, Sumalee – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
The importance of lifelong learning has been recognized for many years and consequently many countries, disregarding their geographical location, differences in education systems and traditions, have adopted their lifelong learning policies to develop the lifelong learning system. The goal of the present comparative research is to study the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Black, Alison; Lawson, Hazel – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2017
This article examines the purposes of education with a particular focus on young people with severe learning difficulties (SLD). The topic is explored with reference to a specific case, whereby some of the key findings of an evaluation of the first year of "The Greenside Studio", an English special school's vocational teaching resource…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Severe Disabilities, Educational Resources, Vocational Education
Capogna, Stefania – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
Educational agencies are going through a difficult transition, with important consequences in terms of de-legitimacy of the social mandate historically assigned to the school. The reason for this widespread unease can be traced to the fact that today we live in a complex system. This paper arises within this problematic framework with the intent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Sociology, Educational Policy, Quality Assurance
Davies, Richard – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
Elective Home Education is a legal, minority approach to the compulsory education of children. I review the potential contribution of the historical analysis of "domestic pedagogies", presented in this Special Issue, for home education practice in the UK. By drawing on narratives of a period at the cusp of the perceived normalcy of…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational History, Educational Development, Educational Practices
Rocha, Ana Cristina; Leal, Cláudia; Duarte, Cidália – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
Portugal, like many other countries, faces obstacles regarding school-based sexuality education. This paper explores Portuguese schools' approaches to implementing sexuality education at a local level, and provides a critical analysis of potential strengths and weaknesses. Documents related to sexuality education in a convenience sample of 89…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Educational Practices, Educational Methods
Hunt, Frances; King, Richard P. – Development Education Research Centre, 2015
Within the Global Learning Programme (GLP) in England there has been an explicit focus on encouraging more holistic 'whole school' practice and the need for better evidence of its impact. This paper describes how support for a whole school approach to global learning was rationalised and developed within the programme, and how such an approach was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Evidence, Educational Change
Ward, Gavin – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
This article examines Movement Culture as an approach to support teachers in exploring the integration of Sport as a medium for learning within Physical Education. By avoiding the need to draw clearly defined lines between Physical Education and Sport, Movement Culture embraces both. It acknowledges the need for subject matter in Physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Movement Education, Athletics, Educational Practices