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Direct linkFrega, Ana Lucía; Limongi, Jorge Ramiro – International Journal of Music Education, 2019
Over the last years, "El Sistema" has been enthusiastically received around the world and has inspired several proposals aiming to transplant it to different contexts in different countries. It would seem, then, that "El Sistema" constitutes a renewed approach that allows a place for inclusive music education within the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Music Education, Educational History, Program Descriptions
Cortina, Regina; Earl, Amanda – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
This article uses Southern theories to analyse education programmes in Latin America that promote Indigenous knowledges and languages at the university level. Applying de Sousa Santos' concepts of 'pluriversity' and 'subversity' to four cases of programme models, in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and one regional network, the authors describe the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, American Indian Languages, Global Approach, Program Evaluation
Zhyzhko, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
This article is the result of scientific comparative-pedagogical research, which purpose was to highlight the main features of postgraduate professional pedagogical education in Mexico. The author found that the postgraduate professional pedagogical education in Mexico is performed by public and private higher education institutions: higher…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Graduate Study, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Gumaelius, Lena; Almqvist, Monica; Árnadóttir, Anna; Axelsson, Anders; Conejero, J. Alberto; García-Sabater, José P.; Klitgaard, Lene; Kozma, Cecilia; Maheut, Julien; Marin-Garcia, Juan; Mickos, Henrik; Nilsson, Per-Olof; Norén, Agneta; Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Prenzel, Manfred; Ray, Johanna; Roxå, Torgny; Voss, Mirjam – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Universities, Science Interests, College Programs
Tripney, Janice; Kenny, Caroline; Gough, David – European Education, 2014
Despite a political climate demanding evidence-informed decision making in education both within individual countries and at the international level, empirically grounded European research in this field is scarce. This paper reports on a European Commission-funded study that sought to identify and analyze different initiatives across Europe aimed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Evidence, Policy Formation
Evers, Arne – International Journal of Testing, 2012
In this article, the characteristics of five test review models are described. The five models are the US review system at the Buros Center for Testing, the German Test Review System of the Committee on Tests, the Brazilian System for the Evaluation of Psychological Tests, the European EFPA Review Model, and the Dutch COTAN Evaluation System for…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Test Reviews, Trend Analysis, International Education
Lee, Virginia S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) has widespread appeal in higher education as a suite of teaching strategies that promotes learning through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues using the methods of inquiry of the disciplines. Framed as especially appropriate for research universities, IGL has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
McEwan, Patrick J. – Comparative Education, 2008
This paper describes three multigrade school reforms in Latin America: (1) Colombia's "Escuela Nueva", (2) Guatemala's "Nueva Escuela Unitaria", and (3) Chile's MECE-Rural. Each reform endowed primary teachers and students with special training and instructional materials, and encouraged new kinds of instruction in rural…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedHargreaves, Andy – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1982
Analyzes the processes used to evaluate School-centered Innovation programs (SCI) in the United Kingdom. A review of the literature revealed that accounts of most of the programs are not evaluative but mostly anecdotal and descriptive. Limitations of the research on SCI are discussed. (AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions
International Understanding at School, 1973
India's Unesco Associated Schools Program is presented as an instructive model for other countries. Its history from 1954 is developed in terms of organization; programs such as seminars, workshops, and camps; materials produced and dissiminated; progress in involving all levels of education; and problems, results and plans for intensification and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education, Intercultural Programs
Peer reviewedFoster, L. T. – Journal of Geography, 1982
Anxious to maintain student enrollments, geography departments have placed greater emphasis on the applied nature of the discipline. Described are (1) the advantages of internships in college geography curricula that enable students to gain firsthand knowledge about the usefulness of geography in real world situations and (2) operational models…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Internship Programs
Download full textIram, Yaacov – 2002
The United Nations declared the year 2000 and the decade 2001-2010 as "The Year for Culture and Peace." A culture of peace implies more than a passive and quiescent state due to an absence of war and violence. To attain a culture of peace, people must actively strive toward positive values that enable different cultures and nations to…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education
International Understanding at School, 1973
Some generalizations and conclusions are given about the Associated Schools Project based on findings from reports compiled by a representative group of the National Commissions who made in depth studies of their associated programs. A profile is provided of the project as a whole, of its evaluation, achievement to date, and future directions. (SM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education, International Education
Mammo, Gudeta – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1982
To improve adult literacy in urban and rural areas, Ethiopia has established reading centers throughout the country staffed by volunteer teachers. Since 1978, 10 million persons have participated in the program. Eight million have finished courses and taken the tests. About four million have passed and received certificates. (AM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Education, Educational Practices
Chinese Education, 1976
Presents minutes of a discussion meeting held by Shanghai university students to describe and evaluate an agricultural and technical correspondence program in which they had taken part. Ways of relating the correspondence courses to the needs of a socialist economy are suggested. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Communism, Comparative Education, Correspondence Study
