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Direct linkKelly, Peter; Dorf, Hans; Pratt, Nick; Hohmann, Ulrike – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This article reports the findings of a comparative study of teaching in Denmark and England. Its broader aim is to help develop an approach for comparing pedagogy. Lesson observations and interviews identified the range of goals towards which teachers in each country worked and the actions these prompted. These were clustered using the lens of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis
Smail, Amy – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
The Child-Centred Approach (CCA) is increasingly promoted within India and internationally as a response to the challenge of delivering quality education. From identifying and examining Indian indigenous and global concepts of CCA within traditional and contemporary child-centred pedagogic discourse, this paper reveals the complexities of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher Role, Educational Quality
Urwick, James – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
While it is widely believed that relevant research is needed for educational policy and practice, an important issue is whether policy-makers and implementers are really receptive to such research. This study sets out a conceptual framework relating to the issue in low-income countries, encompassing the cast of characters involved, contemporary…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Researchers, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Sayed, 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
Aikman, Sheila – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
This article investigates discourses of intercultural education, taking as its starting point two "encounters" in 2010 with contrasting aims and expectations of intercultural education. One is the launch of the 2010 Global Monitoring Report, where intercultural education is viewed as a means of overcoming marginalisation and promoting inclusion,…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Social Change, Disadvantaged, Rural Areas
Breton-Carbonneau, Gabrielle; Cleghorn, Ailie; Evans, Rinelle; Pesco, Diane – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
Comparative research in multilingual urban primary schools indicates that the pedagogical and political goals of schooling may operate at cross-purposes. Classroom observations and teacher interview-discussions were conducted in classes for immigrant children in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where the language of instruction is French, and in classes…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
Wagner, Daniel A.; Lockheed, Marlaine; Mullis, Ina; Martin, Michael O.; Kanjee, Anil; Gove, Amber; Dowd, Amy Jo – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
Over the past decade, international and national education agencies have begun to emphasize the improvement of the quality (rather than quantity) of education in developing countries. This trend has been paralleled by a significant increase in the use of educational assessments as a way to measure gains and losses in quality of learning. As…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Reading Tests
Ekaju, John – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
Past research has addressed the disparities in educational achievement for primary year seven school leavers in Uganda but it did not take into account the multidimensional perspectives: those on poverty (as reported by the poor) and on educational inequalities between and within regions, particularly with regard to the impacts of the 1997…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ethnicity, Language Planning, Equal Education
Nyaga, Susan; Anthonissen, Christine – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
Kenya's language-in-education policy supports mother-tongue education as the ideal approach to developing language and literacy skills of young learners. The policy has been informed by findings of various past national education commissions as well as international declarations such as the UNESCO declaration on the use of Vernacular Languages in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Literacy, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Partasi, Evgenia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
Within the context of a monocultural and monolingual education system, this paper seeks to explore and compare the experiences of Cypriot and non-Cypriot pupils in Greek-Cypriot primary schools with culturally diverse pupil populations. The concept of multiculturalism has been introduced only very recently in Cyprus and there has been little…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
Uibu, Krista; Kikas, Eve; Tropp, Kristiina – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
The article discusses kindergarten and primary school teachers' preferences for instructional approaches and teaching practices. One hundred and thirty-three teachers from Estonia completed questionnaires. The results showed that the promotion of students' comprehension and independence, enhancing practical application and individualisation of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Azuara, Patricia; Reyes, Iliana – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
In Mexico almost ten million people speak an indigenous language. Recognizing the pluralistic nature of the nation, the Mexican Constitution mandates bilingual-intercultural education; in reality, however, the school system typically imposes the Spanish language and dominant culture on indigenous children. For these children their academic success…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Indigenous Populations, Written Language, Maya (People)
Cincotta-Segi, Angela – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
With speakers of over one hundred languages, the Lao PDR is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse nations in Southeast Asia. However, its education policy stipulates that Lao is the language of education at all levels of schooling. Non-ethnic Lao students are thus required to learn literacy in a language which they do not speak.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages
El Aissati, Abderrahman; Karsmakers, Suzanne; Kurvers, Jeanne – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
In 2003, the Amazigh (Berber) language and the Tifinagh script were, for the first time in history, introduced as a subject for all students in public primary schools in Morocco. This study first investigates the language planning policy behind the introduction of the new Amazigh curriculum: selection, codification, standardization, curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Language Planning, Familiarity, Educational Practices
Howes, Andrew J.; Grimes, Peter; Shohel, M. Mahruf C. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
In this article we reflect on data from two research projects in which inclusive practice in the educational system is at issue, in the light of wider field experience (our own and others') of school and teacher development. We question what we understand to be relatively common, implicit policy assumptions about how teachers develop, by examining…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Teacher Role, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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