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Baldacchino, Godfrey – Comparative Education, 2008
Entrepreneurship on smaller (often island) jurisdictions tends to suffer from the same import-orientation or "cargo cult" that affects many other issues: entrepreneurs are rarely locally bred but are most often "imported", recruited after long stints in other, larger countries, or else must be suffered to spend regular time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Entrepreneurship, Business Skills
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Louisy, Pearlette – Comparative Education, 2001
The phenomenon of globalization argues for a broader world view that makes allowances for cultural diversity. Caribbean states have a history of living and working with people from diverse backgrounds, and could make a contribution to the new perspective through closer engagement with the field of comparative education, which has always stressed…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Maintenance, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
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Torres, Pat; Arnott, Allan – Comparative Education, 1999
In response to overseas economic competition and changing technologies, Australia's national vocational education and training system was recently restructured, with emphases on competency-based training and industry participation. This national training system has had little relevance for geographically remote Aboriginal communities. Issues of…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Education, Competency Based Education, Culturally Relevant Education