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Wang-Szilas, Jue; Bellassen, Joël – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This article reviews the existing Chinese language Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and points out three problems in their design: the monism-based teaching method, the non-integration of cultural elements, and the lack of learner-learner interactions. It then presents the design principles of the Introductory Chinese MOOC in an attempt to…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Haus, Leah – European Education, 2015
This study raises the question of why the French secondary school history curricula introduced in the late 2000s prescribed more extensive coverage of plural histories than did secondary school history curricula for English schools introduced in the same time period. Both countries share similar societal diversity. To explain the variation in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Secondary Education, Secondary Schools
Brockliss, Laurence, Ed.; Sheldon, Nicola, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on the ground. This book is divided into four…
Descriptors: Educational History, Government School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Citizenship
Amidei, Gaspare Barbiellini – Prospects, 1983
The new information technologies are leading to a fear of mass communications. Schools must lead the way in dispelling this fear. Newspapers can help by developing programs for using newspapers in schools. Newspaper programs in Italy, Denmark, France, and the United States are discussed. (IS)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Mass Instruction
Hazlett, J. Stephen – 1973
The broad problem area of the relation of education to democracy, dealing primarily with the thought of the "opportunist" wing of French democracy in the early Third Republic (1870-c. 1890), is the focus of this study. It endeavors to find out why the politicians and educators who contributed to development of the primary school believed…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Comparative Education, Democratic Values, Educational History