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Jules, Tavis D. – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2020
This article builds upon Robert Cowen's (1996) work on educational coding in transitological settings and post-spaces by deciphering the efficacy of political and economic compressions in Tunisia from the French protectorate period to the 2011 post-Jasmine revolution. First, I diachronically decrypt and elucidate the specific experiences and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Change, Postcolonialism, Political Influences
Li, Kaiyi – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2021
In 1932, with the help of the League of Nations, the Chinese government sent an educational mission consisting of five scholars to Europe, in order to investigate education in different countries as reference points for ongoing Chinese educational reform. This article argues that educators in the mission used foreign examples to support their…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Change
Trilokekar, Roopa Desai – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Through a historical and comparative analysis of international education policy development in Canada and the U.S., this paper will map the similarities and differences in the two countries. It will highlight the contributions and challenges of the government's involvement in international education (IE) in the two federal states and in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
Carnock, Janie Tankard – New America, 2016
Around 30 percent of families across New York State now speak a language other than English at home, resulting in 240,000 English language learners (ELLs) in the state's primary and secondary schools who speak nearly 200 different languages. This report looks at New York State's redesign of policies and practices to better support the education of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English Language Learners, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Koppich, Julia E.; Esch, Camille – Educational Policy, 2012
This article examines the shift in the locus of decision-making authority across more than 25 years of policy efforts to improve teaching effectiveness. Previously the province of local government, states assumed the lion's share of authority for teaching policy during the 1980s and 1990s. As states and the federal government rose to education…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Local Government, Federal Government, Educational Policy
Bhatta, Pramod – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2011
This article explores the nexus between foreign aid and Nepal's primary education in order to understand how aid agencies affect national educational development. It argues that after 1990, when global education targets provided the basic framework for all donor agency funding to primary education and the subsequent use of a sector-wide approach…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Planning, Global Education, Elementary Education
Kim, Ki Su – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
This paper explores two inter-connected issues--the state's role in educational development and educational contribution to economic development--in the policy processes entailed by the South Korean state's pursuit of economic development during the Park Chung Hi era, 1961-1979. It disputes the statist view that South Korea's economic development…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Educational Development
Watts, A. G.; Sultana, Ronald G.; McCarthy, John – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2010
The history of the involvement of the European Union in the development of policy related to career guidance is analysed in terms of three broad periods. In the first two of these, interventions were confined to pilot projects, exchanges and placements, study visits and studies/surveys, with particular attention to young people; whereas the period…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Vocational Education, Public Policy, Lifelong Learning
Lugg, Rosemary – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This paper explores the making of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) in South Africa, and asks how a policy that was intended to unite education and training, and build new forms of equality, failed to become hegemonic as the new state established itself. In so doing, it engages, and argues for, theoretical tools that help keep "the…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Ngok, Kinglun – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2007
Education policy has been undergoing great transformation in China since the initiation of economic reforms and the open-door policy in the late 1970s. These market-oriented reforms and the pursuit of rapid economic growth in a globalized economy have significantly impacted China's education policy and development. In line with the development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competition, Administrative Organization, Economic Progress
Colclough, Christopher; De, Anuradha – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
In the early 1990s, large numbers of children in India remained out of school. International commitments to achieve education for all (EFA) globally meant that India was an important case for donors. India was pressed to accept aid for primary education, and agreed with some reluctance. Although subsequent donor involvement was substantial and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Elementary Education, Access to Education

Herring, W. Dallas – Community College Review, 1974
Author offered a few conditions which he thought ought to exist and which might help aid the making of a consistent national policy in education. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Development, Educational Policy, Government Role
Short, Edmund C. – 1973
In order to develop and implement new governmental policies in educational research and development (R&D) which meet the needs of R&D specialists and the concerns of the public, it is important to understand the complexity of the research-development-knowledge utilization cycle and to develop a strategy which serves the public interest but…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Payne, Douglas – Adult Education (London), 1975
The author attempts to reflect accurately the present dichotomy in adult education many Australians feel between established institutions, especially universities, and the processes of change emanating from both government and ground-swell activity and need. A perpetual tug-of-war between "Federal" and "State" elements is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Development, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Whitelock, D. A. – Adult Education (London), 1975
After describing the political context and history of Australian adult education (termed, "depressing"), the author briefly discusses the reports, delivered or impending, of three government-sponsored committees on recommended future policy: on open tertiary education, on technical and further education, and on retraining. He predicts…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Educational Development, Educational Finance