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Bates, Agnieszka; Choi, Tae-Hee; Kim, Yong – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
The outsourcing of education services has been widely adopted across international contexts as a 'tested solution' or panacea to meet various educational problems including school management, curriculum design, teaching and student discipline. Contracting third-party providers, it is argued, enhances organisational goals such as efficiency,…
Descriptors: Outsourcing, Professionalism, Commercialization, Teacher Role
Lee, Jeongwoo; Desjardins, Richard – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
In conducting a literature review, this article explores changes to Adult Learning and Education (ALE) policies and related processes as well as the context within which those changes have taken place, so as to draw out comparative insights regarding the unequal distribution of participation in ALE. Emphasis is on an analysis of political…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Schaub, Maryellen; Kim, Hyerim; Jang, Deok-Ho; Baker, David P. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
In this Forum the authors suggest that a growing intensity of contradictory public and private interests in education is a persistent force in education development stemming from the increasing centrality of education in contemporary society. Contrasting South Korea's effective policies ensuring equality of educational opportunity with its…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Policy Analysis, Politics of Education
Waldow, Florian – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
Researchers interested in the global flow of educational ideas and programmes have long been interested in the role of so-called "reference societies." The article investigates how top scorers in large-scale assessments are framed as positive or negative reference societies in the education policy-making debate in German mass media and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Academic Achievement, Stereotypes, International Assessment
Maca, Mark; Morris, Paul – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
After WWII, the economic prospects of the Philippines, then the second-largest economy in Asia, were viewed positively, but by the mid-1970s it had become Asia's developmental puzzle for its failure to sustain economic growth. In contrast during the same period, regional neighbours, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore, achieved previously…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis