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Peer reviewedTaylor, Solange G. – Comparative Education Review, 2002
The cases of Estonia and South Africa illustrate how a lack of coherence between a language policy and that policy's implementation plan can reduce both the policy and the implementation plan to symbolic acts of no benefit to students or communities. Comparison of these countries' language-in-education plans highlights the need to examine…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Planning
Peer reviewedMeyer, Heinz-Dieter – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Four books examine recent and ongoing changes in the university as an institution, focusing on lifelong learning and increasing numbers of nontraditional students, the entrepreneurial university, and the university in the knowledge society. The new university must balance its roles of serving the new economy while continuing to safeguard and…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, College Role, Comparative Education, Educational Change
Peer reviewedCarnoy, Martin; Rhoten, Diana – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Globalization provides a new empirical challenge and a new theoretical frame for comparative education. The global economy is dependent on knowledge resources and information technology and increasingly intertwined in international institutions promulgating particular ideologies and strategies for educational change. Comparative education must…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Diffusion (Communication), Economic Change, Economic Factors
Peer reviewedDale, Roger; Robertson, Susan L. – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Examines the noneconomic role of three regional international organizations--the European Union, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. Describes differences in organizational structure and purpose, dimensions of organizational power, policies and intentions toward education, direct impact on national…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Human Capital
Peer reviewedWelmond, Michel – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Archival research and interviews with teachers and key informants in Benin schools examined cultural schemata that define teacher identity as vessel and conveyer of special knowledge, civil servant, self-sacrificing parental surrogate, or efficient worker ensuring high test grades. Conflicts among these identities, between teachers and the state,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Professional Recognition
Peer reviewedAstiz, M. Fernanda; Wiseman, Alexander W.; Baker, David P. – Comparative Education Review, 2002
The mingling of economic and institutional globalization forces with existing national education structures produces various paradoxical mixes of decentralized and centralized educational administration. This is demonstrated through brief case studies of education in France, the United States, Colombia, and Spain, and quantitative analysis of data…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decentralization, Educational Administration, Educational Change
Peer reviewedBenveniste, Luis – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Examines the national educational assessment systems of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay to explore the role of politics and state-polity relations in shaping the design, implementation, and impact of national assessment systems. Discusses the rapid global diffusion of national assessment systems and the impact of centralized versus decentralized…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Decentralization, Educational Assessment
Peer reviewedSpaulding, Seth – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Reviews two books that give an overview of the broad spectrum of new educational technology advocates, what they have accomplished using various distance media in developing countries, and what they are proposing for the future. Weaves the reviewer's personal experiences with these projects into the review. Discusses implications for comparative…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Distance Education
Peer reviewedUrwick, James – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Aspects of the Bahamas' cultural and economic situation have created an environment receptive to U.S. and Canadian influences in education. Major institutional changes involving cross-national transfer are the multipurpose college, a credit system and bureaucratized advisement in higher education, comprehensive secondary schools, American team…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Case Studies, Cultural Influences, Educational Change
Peer reviewedWong, Ting-Hong; Apple, Michael – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Previous studies of the role of education in state-building have neglected the relative autonomy and non-neutral stance of the school system. Bernstein's notion of "pedagogic device" is used to illuminate conflicts and contradictions between educational development and state-building in the case of Singapore's efforts to control the curriculum of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedOplatka, Izhar – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Interviews with 10 high school principals in Tel Aviv (Israel) and documentary analysis revealed "contradictory dualism" in relation to principals' attitudes and behaviors toward the marketing of their schools. While social and political forces and competition among schools forced the adoption of marketing activities, the principals perceived…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System
Peer reviewedMukudi, Edith – Comparative Education Review, 2002
Two books acknowledge the importance of education in empowering African women and girls, both socially and economically, but differ from the dominant discourse by delving into locally grounded investigations of the dynamics that influence girls' access to education, outcomes, and the nature of the empowerment that education accords them. The scope…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Book Reviews, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkSayed, Yusuf; Sprague, Terra; Turner, David; Smith, Alan; Paulson, Julia; Shields, Robin; Shrestha, Purna Kumar; Unterhalter, Elaine; Vaughan, Rosie Peppin; Smail, Amy; Tungaraza, Frida; Sutherland, Margaret; Stack, Niamah; Barrett, Angeline M.; Bunwaree, Vasant K.; Alhawsawi, Sajjad; Hanna, Helen; Soudien, Crain; Motivans, Albert – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
As the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, there are a growing number of processes, preparations and debates on what a post-2015 agenda and framework will look like. The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) (as chaired by the United Nations Development Programme) is leading the planning of efforts…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Equal Education
Maringe, F.; Foskett, N.; Woodfield, S. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
We know little about how internationalisation processes are understood, rationalised and prioritised in different parts of the world. A global survey of internationalisation in universities was undertaken at the University of Southampton to fill this gap. Its purpose was to discover how strategic leaders in universities in different parts of the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, International Studies, Models, Questionnaires
Matemba, Yonah – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
Educational reforms, particularly in a contested subject such as Religious Education (RE), have unsettled boundaries principally because actors demand or expect different outcomes of these reforms. In the cases of Scotland and Malawi the present paper examines how different stakeholders have engaged with RE reforms. It thus ascertains whether, if…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Educational Change
