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Jeffery, Jill V.; van Beuningen, Catherine – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
Across the globe, linguistically heterogeneous populations increasingly define school systems at the same time that developing the ability to communicate cross-culturally is becoming essential for internationalized economies. While these trends seem complimentary, they often appear in paradoxical opposition as represented in the content and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Usage, Cultural Awareness, Language Skills
Waldow, Florian – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
In the early 20th century, proponents of the so-called "social efficiency movement" in the United States tried to apply methods and concepts for enhancing efficiency in industrial production to the organization of teaching and learning processes. This included the formulation of "educational standards" analogous to industrial…
Descriptors: Educational History, Academic Standards, Industry, Change Strategies
Clyde, Carol – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2010
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact that involvement in an experiential learning programme for Holocaust education had on college and university participants' worldviews and civic leadership development. Results indicate that involvement in specific elements of the programme did have an impact. The student-focused, experiential…
Descriptors: Death, Experiential Learning, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Peters, Susan; Oliver, Laura Ann – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
While great progress has been made by the international community to promote inclusive education for all children, regardless of race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender or disability, many countries still continue to marginalize and exclude students in educational systems across the globe. High-stakes assessments in market-driven economies…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Educational Policy
Blumberg, Rae Lesser – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
Gender bias in textbooks (GBIT) is a low-profile education issue, given the 72,000,000 children who still have no access to schooling, but this article argues that GBIT is: (1) an important, (2) near-universal, (3) remarkably uniform, (4) quite persistent but (5) virtually invisible obstacle on the road to gender equality in education--an obstacle…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Gender Bias
Torney-Purta, Judith; Barber, Carolyn; Wilkenfeld, Britt – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
This analysis aims to explore within one country (United States) whether there are differences in preparation for citizenship between students who are immigrant and those who are native-born and between students who come from Hispanic background and those who do not. This is a first step toward shaping further analysis of the civic education of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Immigrants, Democracy, Citizen Participation
Husfeldt, Vera – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2006
The process of educational expansion and the demographic process of generational replacement would have ongoing liberalization effects and therefore lead to a growth of ethnic tolerance. This was the prediction of Hyman and Sheatsley stated in 1956. Nearly half a century later there is little empirical evidence for a rising support of the…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Family Characteristics, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants
Gullickson, Arlen R. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
"The Student Evaluation Standards" were born from the frustrations and concerns of many people who want the evaluations to better serve student learning. This paper describes those standards and how they serve student learning. The first part of this paper lays groundwork--context--by providing strong evidence that, at least in the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, National Standards, Educational Principles, Evaluation Methods