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UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2019
The publication "Global inventory of regional and national qualifications frameworks 2019 -- Volume II: National and regional cases" gathers information on progress in establishing national qualifications frameworks (NQFs), as well as the challenges and success factors in implementation. It shows how countries around the globe are…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Regional Characteristics, Qualifications, National Standards
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Martino, Andrew – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2015
In a world that no longer privileges thinking, Andrew Martino writes here that we might need to consider what we are asking of our students--and why--when we ask them to think. This article presents a declaration of how Martino thinks honors education can serve as a resistant force against the increasing encroachment of a wholly utilitarian…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Humanities, Role of Education, Educational Objectives
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2019
A national qualifications framework (NQF) is an instrument used to classify a country's qualifications at different levels. Each level is defined by a set of learning outcomes expected at that level. NQFs can be useful tools in education and training reforms and are vital reference points for lifelong learning and comparing qualifications across…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Global Approach, Regional Characteristics, National Standards
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Blaszczak, Iwona – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
Nowadays, adult education and lifelong learning constitutes one of the most significant factors influencing economic growth and social development. Definitions such as "knowledge society" and "knowledge-based economy" exist in a great number of the Polish and European Union papers and documents and they are not only the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Andragogy, Foreign Countries
Abdallah, Mahmoud M. S.; Mohammad, Marwa M. M. – Online Submission, 2016
The general secondary stage in Egypt is a vital educational phase since it plays an essential role in developing students' thinking and learning styles to prepare them for life in general and higher education in particular. Accordingly, it has become urgent and persistent to develop secondary-stage students' critical thinking styles while…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Lifelong Learning, Models, Learning Strategies
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This second volume of the "Global Inventory of Regional and National Qualifications Frameworks" focuses on national and regional cases of national qualifications frameworks for eighty- six countries from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan and seven regional qualifications frameworks. Each country profile provides a thorough review of the main…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Regional Characteristics, Qualifications, National Standards
Singh, Madhu – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This book deals with the relevance of recognition, validation and accreditation (RVA) of non-formal and informal learning in education and training, the workplace and society. It examines RVA's strategic policy objectives and best practice features as well as the challenges faced and ways forward as reported by Member States. Special attention is…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Vocational Education, Global Approach
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Hunt, Pam; McDonnell, John; Crockett, Margret A. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2012
The emergence of the standards-based reform movement has raised a number of issues related to the design of educational programs for students with severe disabilities, and a debate has arisen that presents an "either/or" choice between the general education curriculum and an ecological curricular framework that has traditionally guided…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Lifelong Learning, Quality of Life, Curriculum Development
Deij, Arjen; Graham, Michael; Bjornavold, Jens; Grm, Slava Pevec; Villalba, Ernesto; Christensen, Hanne; Chakroun, Borhene; Daelman, Katrien; Carlsen, Arne; Singh, Madhu – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
The "Global Inventory of Regional and National Qualifications Frameworks," the result of collaborative work between the European Training Foundation (ETF), the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] and UIL [UNESCO Institute for…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Global Approach, Regional Characteristics, National Standards
Kupisiewicz, Czeslaw – Prospects, Quarterly Review of Education, 1974
A model educational system should provide instruction for the future and reflect national as well as international educational traditions. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Principles
Kurland, Norman D. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Outlines objectives and models of continuous learning programs while acknowledging obstacles to such programs. (IRT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Objectives, Equal Education, Lifelong Learning
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Moseley, David; Elliott, Julian; Gregson, Maggie; Higgins, Steve – British Educational Research Journal, 2005
This article details findings from a systematic review and evaluation of frameworks and taxonomies for understanding thinking, with particular reference to learning in post-16 contexts. It describes the means used to identify and evaluate 35 frameworks and identifies three that appear to be particularly useful in the context of lifelong learning.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Lifelong Learning, Educational Research, Educational Objectives
Zeigler, Warren L. – 1972
Recurrent education, as developed in the past four or five years in a number of European countries, is seen as a process of formal, full-time, for credit instruction for adults beyond the age of compulsory schooling in which participation was supposed to take place during intermittent periods throughout the adult working life-span. This would…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
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Shane, Harold G. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 1973
Discusses the causes for educational problems, backgrounds for educational development, and a model for educational progress. (RK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Objectives
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Decker, Larry E. – NASSP Bulletin, 1975
In addition to defining the concepts of community education and the community school, the author covers the basic tenets as well as many of the misconceptions regarding the subject. (Editor)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Community Education, Community Schools
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