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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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A Policy of Vulnerability or Agency? Refugee Young People's Opportunities in Accessing Further and Higher Education in the UK
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Gateley, D. E. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
The UK government's austerity cuts have negatively impacted many voluntary-sector interventions that provided support to refugees. One such intervention, the Refugee Integration and Employment Service (RIES), is discussed in this paper. The RIES was a UK Border Agency-funded integration programme for recognised refugees and operated through…
Descriptors: Refugees, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Intervention
Capital, Agency, Family and the Diaspora: An Exploration of Boys' Aspirations towards Higher Education in Urban Jamaica
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Stockfelt, Shawanda – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
The paper discusses factors impacting on boys' educational aspirations at two case-study schools in urban Jamaica. It focuses on boys' experience of their educational environment in relation to social, cultural and economic factors, which shapes the nature of their aspirations towards higher education. The study utilised Bourdieu's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Males, Academic Aspiration
Producing Global Citizens for the Future: Space, Discourse and Curricular Reform
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Matus, Claudia; Talburt, Susan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
This article inquires into discourses of globalisation as they are put to use to accelerate higher education's seemingly ready acquiescence to the demands of the market. We maintain that globalisation operates as a way to reason about space that produces images and narratives of universities, knowledge and students. We focus our analysis on…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Change, State Universities, Neoliberalism
A Multiple Cross-Cultural Comparison of Approaches to Learning
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Bowden, Mark P.; Abhayawansa, Subhash; Manzin, Gregoria – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
This study compares learning approaches of local English-speaking students and students from Asian countries studying at an Australian metropolitan university. The sample consists of students across 13 different countries. Unlike previous studies, students from Asian countries are subdivided into two categories: students from Confucian Heritage…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Learning Strategies
Factors Affecting the Professional Characteristics of Teacher Educators in Israel and in the USA: A Comparison of Two Models
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Shagrir, Leah – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2015
The objective of this research study was to identify the factors affecting the professional characteristics of teacher educators by comparing two models of teacher education. The research findings revealed four major focal points that have an impact on professional characteristics: the operational model adopted by the institution where teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Professional Identity, Models
Universities, Dependency and the Market: Innovative Lessons from Kenya
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Johnson, Ane Turner; Hirt, Joan B. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
Higher education in developing nations is typically viewed from a dependency perspective--institutions are seen as merely recipients of Western knowledge, aid and reform efforts. Nevertheless, universities in both the centre and the periphery are dealing with tensions between protecting the public good and embracing neoliberal values based on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Educational Innovation
Will Bribery and Fraud Converge? Comparative Corruption in Higher Education in Russia and the USA
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Osipian, Ararat L. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This study analyses the issue of comparative corruption in the national higher education sectors in the United States of America (USA) and the Russian Federation (RF). Corruption in higher education, as well as the way it is addressed in legislation and court cases and reflected in the media, appears to be consistent with the trajectory and pace…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Higher Education
De-Colonising International Collaboration: The University of Kwazulu-Natal-Mauritius Institute of Education Cohort PhD Programme
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Samuel, Michael Anthony; Mariaye, Hyleen – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This paper explores the setting up of the partnership across the Mauritian and South African higher education contexts with respect to the development of a postgraduate PhD doctoral studies programme. The Mauritian Institute of Education (MIE) aims to develop staffing capacities through engagement with doctoral studies, especially in the context…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, International Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
"Paradoxical Health Education": Learning about Health in Kenyan Teacher Training Colleges
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Dahl, Kari Kragh Blume – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This paper suggests the term "paradoxical" to understand how health education (HE) is carried out and experienced as contradictory and inconsistent by student-teachers who learn about health in Kenyan teacher training colleges (TTC). The claim is that students, apart from formal HE lessons, also learn about health in non-curricular HE,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Interviews
Negotiating Knowledges Abroad: Non-Western Students and the Global Mobility of Knowledge
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van Oorschot, Irene – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
Taking the Institute for Housing Studies in Rotterdam as a case study, this paper aims to theorise the ways non-Western, international students construct and negotiate knowledges in Western institutions of higher education. It describes the types of knowledges these students identify as characteristic of their learning abroad, distinguishing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Housing, Case Studies, Foreign Students
Negotiating Second-Language Identities in and through Border Crossing
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Gallucci, Sonia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
In this article, I describe the ways in which two British university students negotiated their identity as second language learners during a year abroad in Italy and the extent to which their struggles helped them to "fit in" into the new social and cultural contexts. Building upon the lived experiences of the two participants, I follow…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Self Concept, College Students, Foreign Countries
"COMPARE" Forum: The Post-2015 Education and Development Agenda
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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
Emerging Internationalisation Models in an Uneven Global Terrain: Findings from a Global Survey
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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
Transnational Knowledge Partnerships: New Calculus and Politics in Africa's Development
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Obamba, Milton O. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
Since the 1990s, the partnership paradigm has become the predominant framework for organising transnational academic ventures and international development. The global-partnership approach embraces a pluralistic perspective to development and dramatically expands the spectrum of actors and activities that constitute international development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Global Approach, International Cooperation
"COMPARE" Forum: The Idea of North-South and South-South Collaboration
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Holmarsdottir, Halla B.; Desai, Zubeida; Botha, Louis Royce; Breidlid, Anders; Bastien, Sheri; Mukoma, Wanjiru; Ezekiel, Mangi J.; Helleve, Arnfinn; Farag, Alawia I.; Nomlomo, Vuyokazi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
The idea of having a "Compare" Forum focusing on the above title was first discussed with one of the Editors of "Compare" during a PhD defence in Oslo in 2011. The PhD dissertation itself was linked to a larger project in which researchers from the North (Norway) and the South (South Africa) had been collaborating in educational research for over…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Researchers
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