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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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Maeda, Koji; Okano, Kaori H. – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
This paper examines how collaboration amongst university, indigenous community and private sector companies can promote Ainu participation in higher education, drawing on a case study of the Urespa Project in Sapporo University, Japan. In this project, the university offers scholarships to Ainu students, requiring them to take a special course in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Benchmarking, Indigenous Populations, Private Sector
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Anderson, Peter J.; Atkinson, Bernadette – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2013
Peter J. Anderson and Bernadette Atkinson teach Indigenous and Traditionally Education in a Global World as a fourth year unit in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Clayton. This paper is a self reflective piece of work where they discuss the use of graduate attributes relating to Indigenous Education, put forward by the Australian…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Preservice Teacher Education, Academic Standards
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Preston, Jane P. – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2012
Based on a qualitative case study conducted within one Saskatchewan (Canada) rural community, the purpose of this article is to describe the challenges a school council faced when supporting a school improvement plan. The primary data for the study were 35 semi-structured individual interviews conducted with school council members, teachers, and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Teacher Attitudes
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Tolley, Hilary – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2011
Within the context of bilateral support to the education sector in Tonga and the Solomon Islands, this paper will explore how the discourse of "partnership" has been interpreted and activated within the Sector wide approach (SWAp). In concentrating particularly on the relationship between the respective Ministries of Education and New Zealand's…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Development, Alignment (Education), Group Dynamics
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Male, Alan – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2011
International partners must always realise that local education systems interact with local social environments. Local perspectives are active agents in shaping the effectiveness of educational change. Underlying cultural, symbolic and social structures set the elastic limits of change and impact the formulation and implementation of policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Equal Education, Advantaged
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Fairbairn-Dunlop, Peggy – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2011
This paper explores how global aid agendas impact NGO responsibility for Violence Against Women (VAW) community education programmes. VAW is a critical issue in the Pacific region. A reconfiguration of the NGO sector is taking place whereby larger NGOs receive more resources than smaller, more diverse NGOs. This paper examines a regional-national…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Community Education, Foreign Countries