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Lau, Chui Shan – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2011
This study focuses on the transformation of pro-Beijing labour education in the socio-political context of Hong Kong. It explores the reasons that Hong Kong pro-Beijing educators initiated Workers' Night Schools for adults; the organisation of schools in many locales and the transformation of labour education that workers received in these…
Descriptors: Activism, Labor Education, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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Tan, Po Li; Pillay, Hitendra – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2008
The link between learning and the knowledge-economy is so crucial that the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development has reconceptualised the term knowledge-economy to call it "learning economy". Ultimately, one of the main challenges of learning and development in the 21st century is to evaluate the significant learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Strategies
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Hanhart, Siegfried; Broyon, Marie Anne – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2004
Switzerland spends about 6% of its GDP on education. In the past few years, there have been carrying out important reforms in the educational field, for example introducing a vocational high school diploma and creating specialized higher vocational institution (hautes ecoles). What is the extent of educational research in this context? There are…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Research Needs, Educational Research, Foreign Countries