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Joseph P. Magliano; Tabitha Stickel; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Daphne Greenberg – Grantee Submission, 2024
Visual media (pictures, photographs) are often used in adult literacy instruction, presumably because they are easy for adult literacy learners to process. However, relatively little research has been conducted on how adult literacy learners comprehend visual media, such as picture stories. Some have argued that picture stories could be used as a…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Picture Books, College Students, Adult Education
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
Grandinetti, Roberto – Learning Organization, 2011
Purpose: With the advance of globalization the competitive chances of industrial districts depends increasingly on their ability to connect to the cognitive circuits of the global economy. This challenge demands the presence of local actors capable of acting as cognitive interfaces between the district context and the global environment. The paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Case Studies, Global Approach
Jenkins, McKay – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
In this article, the author discusses why he is not preparing his students to compete in the global marketplace. For all the talk of "globalization" as the very engine of their generation's future prospects, his students seemed far more concerned about disappearing jobs at home, rising global temperatures, and a general anxiety about…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Environmental Education, Climate, Role of Education
Bash, Leslie – Issues in Educational Research, 2012
Theory and practice in intercultural education remain problematic as they continue to reflect the tensions between universalistic and particularistic agendas. Particularism is manifested in a culturalist narrative which is mired in a failure to subject relativistic postmodernism to adequate critique. At the same time, universalism is frequently…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Resource Allocation, Global Approach
Chakroun, Borhene – European Journal of Education, 2010
This article takes up the issue of the internationalisation of Vocational Education and Training (VET) reforms, expressed in the way policy instruments such as National Qualifications Frameworks (NQF) are introduced in the European Training Foundation's (ETF) partner countries. There is an international debate and different perspectives regarding…
Descriptors: Intervention, Local Issues, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
Hansen, Lexine Tallis – ProQuest LLC, 2010
International community development is a fertile area of research for environmental education scholars and practitioners. Although the community development field is well established, there is relatively little focus on education and learning in community development literature, especially in developing country settings. Particularly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Global Approach, Scholarship