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Peter Mayo – International Review of Education, 2024
This article examines the key role that adult learning and education (ALE) has played and continues to play in addressing the challenges faced by critical engagement with identities and crossing borders in the Mediterranean region. Despite the great cultural, economic and educational diversities characterising the region, the author explores…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
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Bamberger, Annette; Kim, Min Ji – Comparative Education, 2023
An extensive literature has explored the influence of the OECD on school education policies globally, while their influence on higher education policies has been underexamined. This article addresses that void by analysing the internationalisation of higher education in Israel and South Korea. We suggest that joining the OECD provided political…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, International Education, Educational Policy, Benchmarking
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Heather Smith – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2021
Racist nativism is a concept which helps us understand the relationship between racialisation and nativism. It is used here to examine cultural values perpetuated by media and political discourse as alien to British values in constructions of Britishness. This paper will consider with interest racist nativism revealed in the construction of Islam…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Racism, Local Issues
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Lo, William Yat Wai; Hou, Angela Yung-Chi – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
The literature suggests that recent years have witnessed a fundamental shift in higher education internationalisation. This paper argues that a reorientation of policy, which is upheld through an initiative known as the Higher Education Sprout Project, indicates the fundamental shift in higher education internationalisation in Taiwan. The paper…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Foreign Countries, Reputation
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Krengel, Fabian – Global Education Review, 2021
A key goal of global education in language teaching is to "have students 'think globally and act locally'"(Cates, 2013, p. 278) -- an idea in line with the concept of glocality. Virtual exchange -- i.e. connecting learners with different lingua-cultural backgrounds over extended periods of time via digital communication technologies (The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hayes, Aneta – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
This article makes contributions to questions of why international transfers of programmes do not lead to the outcomes that nations engaging in them expect to gain. Using Bahrain as an example, it is argued that tensions arising from policy borrowing are rooted in the complexities of the political incoherence between the new teaching policies, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Politics of Education, Technology Transfer
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Knoester, Matthew; Parkison, Paul – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
In this study, we examine how the standardizing effects of federal and state education policies in the United States reflect particular ways of understanding the structure and function of education and schooling. This understanding impacts how policies affect schools and those who work and depend upon them. We argue that the disparity between how…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Federal Regulation, Administrative Principles
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Wang, Xin – English Language Teaching, 2017
The application-oriented development of local institutions has become a trend. Business English, with its "compound and cross-disciplinary" characteristics and the development of local economy have put forward higher requirements for the development of business English teachers in local institutions. This paper surveys and analyzes the…
Descriptors: Business English, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Liddicoat, Anthony J.; Taylor-Leech, Kerry – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This paper overviews some of the domains of application of micro-level language planning approaches to foster multilingual education. It examines the language planning of local agents and the contexts in which their work contributes to multilingual education, either to expand or limit educational possibilities. It identifies four broad contexts of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Local Issues, Community Needs
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Conway, Colleen; Hibbard, Shannan; Rawlings, Jared R. – Journal of Music Teacher Education, 2015
This literature review defines the field of micropolitics in education, presents empirical studies of micropolitics from both general education and teacher education research, and connects micropolitics research to music teacher education research. Suggestions for music teacher education include: (a) introducing policy in preservice education; (b)…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Local Issues, Literature Reviews, General Education
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Hamilton, Mary – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
This paper explores the relationship between global, regional and local influences on adult literacy policy and practice in the UK through a discourse analysis of policy-related texts. The analysis is framed by theoretical perspectives from literacy studies and socio-material theory. The paper identifies a number of specific features in the UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Educational Policy, Global Approach
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Derouet, Jean-Louis; Normand, Romuald – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2011
This paper examines the decisions made by French policymakers at a time when France was uncertain about which option to take. The purpose is to follow how actors chart their own course in an environment with plural justifications and how they mobilise resources in several spheres to set up ever-changing networks. The investigation will bear on all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Lifelong Learning, Local Issues
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Facer, Keri; Thomas, Louise – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
This paper uses Fraser's (1999) concept of social justice as comprising both redistribution and recognition as a frame to interrogate two "Area-Based Curriculum" projects running since 2008 in Manchester and Peterborough schools. It argues that historic concerns about working with "the local" in cross-curricular activities has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Educational Change, Social Networks
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Khanal, Peshal – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2010
While school decentralisation policy in Nepal has been taking effect for more than 8 years with the financial and technical assistance of the World Bank, confusion and controversy have been prevalent in relation to its goals, outcomes and sustainability. This article explores the issues of school decentralisation in Nepal by relating the Bank's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Developing Nations, Local Issues
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Welsh, Paul J. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2010
The paper opens with a discussion of some of the methodological difficulties inherent in comparative educational research, and outlines ways in which systemic inequalities in doing comparative work can be reduced. The social circumstances in Thanet and Lille are delineated, and the paper then considers structural differences in denominational…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Social Problems, Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy
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