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Takayo Ogisu; Saori Hagai – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
This article aims to unpack global-local dynamics in education drawing on the cases of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and ASEAN Citizenship Education in Cambodia. By analysing recent education strategies and policies, curriculum framework, and textbooks, this paper unveils (a) to what extent have ESD and ASEAN citizenship been…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Local Issues, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education
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Hahn, Carole L. – Human Rights Education Review, 2020
This article examines how some schools with ethnically diverse student populations are teaching "about," "for," and "through" human rights. The author conducted a secondary analysis of qualitative data from a multi-site study, which included secondary schools serving students from immigrant backgrounds in four…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Citizenship Education, Secondary School Students, Immigrants
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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
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Laessoe, Jeppe; Feinstein, Noah Weeth; Blum, Nicole – Environmental Education Research, 2013
This essay examines the relationship between research and policy and, more specifically, how researchers might relate to policy work. Given the current international policy focus on climate change, green growth and sustainability in general, it argues for strengthening and widening policy research in the areas of Environmental Education (EE),…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods
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Reinders, Hayo, Ed.; Nunan, David, Ed.; Zou, Bin, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2017
This book evaluates the origins of processes of change in language teaching in China, and the factors influencing their success. Examining diverse experiences and drawing on the perspectives of academics from the top institutions in the country, the authors analyse the complex interplay between global and local influences on language policies.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Abiria, Doris Maandebo; Early, Margaret; Kendrick, Maureen – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
Uganda is a linguistically diverse nation where plurilingualism is common. Its language education policy dictates that, except in large urban areas, one local language be selected as the medium of instruction (MoI), to Primary 3, transitioning to English MoI, in Primary 4. Yet, as Ramanathan and Morgan ([Ramanathan, V., 2007]) argue, "the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Aubrey, Carol; Durmaz, Dondu – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2012
This article considers the relationship between policy and practice in the early childhood mathematics curriculum for reception-class (RC) children of five years in England. It explores what the policy requires RC teachers to do in terms of curriculum implementation; what RC teachers' views and understanding of the early childhood mathematics…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Mathematics Curriculum, Young Children, Foreign Countries
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Baird, Robert; Hyde-Simon, Caroline – Language Teaching, 2009
The Centre for Applied Language Research at the University of Southampton is one of two research centres within the discipline of Modern Languages. Established in 2004, CALR now has more than 50 members, predominantly faculty members working in the School of Humanities/Modern Languages, as well as growing number of postgraduate researchers. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Local Issues, Intercultural Communication, Language Research
Davis, Sheldon Emmor – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
This study includes consideration of periodicals for the promotion of public school education, those which deal with the history or scientific study of education, or the technique of schoolroom work, improvement of teachers and general school news. The principal source of information, fully indicated in the bibliography, has been the periodicals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Periodicals, Public Schools