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Tobin, Joseph – Comparative Education, 2022
International comparative ethnographic studies of ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) are difficult to conduct but worth the effort. Comparative studies featuring thick description and polysemic interpretations can challenge taken-for-granted assumptions, expand the menu of the possible, expose the provincialism of national approaches, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Ethnography, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Clément, Pierre – Comparative Education, 2021
In France, the notion of competence began to be discussed in the early 1990s and was finally enforced in the Education Act of 23 April 2005. Since its emergence, this notion has been strongly opposed by a certain number of teachers, unions and researchers. To understand how competence-based education finally prevailed, I take into account the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Competency Based Education, Educational Change
Maroy, Christian; Pons, Xavier – Comparative Education, 2021
This article aims to show the value of the concept of policy trajectory to compare, from a long-term perspective, the transformations of education policies in the context of globalisation. After discussing the scope and limitations of the analyses of the concept in the literature -- descriptive, sequential, metaphorical and building on the works…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Comparative Education, Accountability, Global Approach
Konidari, Victoria – Comparative Education, 2021
This article explores the idea that effective education policymaking necessitates an improved understanding of how students, as micro-scale actors, position themselves in operational terms in the globalised context. The article introduces the concept of perceived operational space as an analytical and methodological perspective to support this…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Expulsion, Educationally Disadvantaged
van Zanten, Agnès – Comparative Education, 2019
This article focuses on the interplay between institutional arrangements, family strategies, and market devices in the transition to higher education (HE) in France with a view to documenting both persistent features of the French 'conservative' educational regime and recent changes, in particular those related to neo-liberal influences. Using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Politics of Education, Institutional Characteristics
Lindberg, Matti; Silvennoinen, Heikki – Comparative Education, 2018
This study compares the literacy and numeracy proficiencies of higher education (HE) degree holders in 21 OECD countries based on primary analysis of the national data sets collected via the OECD's Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) 2012 study. The differences in the graduates' average literacy and numeracy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, Basic Skills, International Assessment
Pons, Xavier; van Zanten, Agnès; Da Costa, Sylvie – Comparative Education, 2015
In this article, we analyse changes in the contemporary management of private Catholic schools under State contract in France since the 1980s. Writing from a "policy sociology" perspective, we use data from previous studies on policy and on public and private schools as well as from an ongoing research project comparing policies of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, Educational Policy, Accountability