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Horner, Lindsey K. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
This paper explores the practices of one small non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Mindanao working innovatively to challenge power and interests by linking resources to local communities who control their productivity. While this may seem like social capital, I suggest that the agency over production, and the deeply political and ideological…
Descriptors: Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Power Structure
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Bowen, Sarah – Rural Sociology, 2010
Geographical indications (GIs) are place-based names that convey the geographical origin, as well as the cultural and historical identity, of agricultural products. GIs are unique, in that they provide a means of ensuring that control over production and sales of a product stays within a local area, but at the same time they make use of extralocal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agribusiness, Agricultural Production, Agriculture
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Chua, Catherine Siew Kheng – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
This paper looks at current reforms by the Government and Ministry of Education, which are moving from a tight national system to a more locally based system, where schools and teachers will have more choice over what they study and teach. This paper addresses this reform at three levels. First, it highlights the changes in the Singaporean…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Planning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Eggers, William D. – Policy Review, 1993
Although the plight of cities seems nearly hopeless, three new-style big city mayors have emerged to try ideas deserving study by other cities. Edward Rendell of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), John Norquist of Milwaukee (Wisconsin), and Stephen Goldsmith of Indianapolis (Indiana) are demonstrating that U.S. cities can be made to work. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Economically Disadvantaged
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Hughes, Mary – Gender and Education, 1992
Using a feminist perspective, this paper attempts to quantify the position of women in educational policymaking in Britain in this century at national and local levels. Women have been in the minority and have not generally been a "shrieking sisterhood," guided primarily by feminist principles. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational History, Educational Policy
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Muller, Anne, Ed.; Murtagh, Teresa, Ed. – Education Today, 2002
In 2000, approximately 877 million adults worldwide were illiterate and 113 million children did not attend school. More than two-thirds of those individuals lived in East and South Asia, and two-thirds were females. Functional illiteracy remains high in developed and developing nations alike. The reasons include weak training in how to teach…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Community Education