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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
Black, Paul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article considers lessons learnt through involvement in several assessment projects. Early experience, in university work and in school examinations, led to an opportunity to help establish a novel system of assessment for an innovative school curriculum. Different lessons were then learnt from work on a national survey of school students'…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Change, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
Jayaram, Shubha; Engmann, Michelle – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Globally, enormous gains have been made towards the goal of universal primary education, leading to increased demands for secondary education. Consequently, more youth and young adults are now entering the formal and informal labour markets from the secondary level, which makes it important to ensure that secondary schools teach skills relevant to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Skill Development
Fien, John; Winfree, Tomi – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The construction industry is contributing to the sustainability agenda through numerous strategies to improve energy efficiency in the design, materials, and operating conditions of buildings. However, this is only one driver of change in the construction sector. This article, which takes Australia as a case study, shows that many other drivers…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Energy Management, Energy Conservation, Power Technology
Mehrotra, Santosh – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
In the first decade of this century, India became one of the world's fastest growing large economies, and began to face serious skill-related shortages of workers. Its TVET system has not responded adequately to the growth in demand for semi-skilled and skilled workers. This article describes six sets of reforms that India's educational planners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Relevance (Education)
Hummelsheim, Stefan; Baur, Michaela – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Germany has a "dual system" of initial vocational education and training, one that other countries admire and would like to adopt. Can it hand this model over to them? This article argues that doing so will require far more than a simple process of copying. Instead, any transfer must reflect the existing conditions in the country…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technology Transfer, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Strategies
Traxler, John; Vosloo, Steve – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The issue that this article introduces grew out of an event, the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week, but also out of a wider and growing movement of people and organisations exploiting mobile technologies, as they pursue varied educational missions. The UNESCO Mobile Learning Week represented by contributions here was a focus for contributions from…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, International Organizations, Evidence, Evaluation
Wagner, Daniel A.; Castillo, Nathan M.; Murphy, Katie M.; Crofton, Molly; Zahra, Fatima Tuz – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
In recent years, the advent of low-cost digital and mobile devices has led to a strong expansion of social interventions, including those that try to improve student learning and literacy outcomes. Many of these are focused on improving reading in low-income countries, and particularly among the most disadvantaged. Some of these early efforts have…
Descriptors: Intervention, Literacy, Handheld Devices, Educational Strategies
Klees, Steven J.; Qargha, Omar – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Equity is the most significant problem educators face. Very large inequities and inequalities persist in both education and society. Why? What can be done about them? While much has been written about these issues, progress is very slow and there is little agreement on why or what to do. While this article cannot resolve these questions, it raises…
Descriptors: Debate, Equal Education, International Organizations, Teacher Role
Mfum-Mensah, Obed; Friedson-Ridenour, Sophia – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article reports on a study of community participation in School "for" Life, a complementary education programme operating in northern Ghana. The researchers investigated three components of community participation: the nature of the mechanisms used to engage community members as participants in the education process; the actors who…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, Outreach Programs, Change Agents
Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Zimmermann, Thomas; Sitha, Chhinh; Williams, James H.; Kitamura, Yuto – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article has three purposes. First, it presents findings from a study of student retention and dropout in Cambodia, as pupils transition from primary to lower secondary school. Second, it aims to understand from an in-depth, emic perspective the dynamics of this process and the challenges that individual families and their students face around…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Secondary Education, Elementary Education, Academic Persistence
The Emergence of Doctoral Programmes in the Colombian Higher Education System: Trends and Challenges
Acosta, Orlando; Celis, Jorge – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The international literature contains few formal analyses of the state of Colombian higher education and its most critical issues. This article systematically and comparatively analyzes the emergence of Colombian doctoral programmes within a national and international context. It shows that, while Colombia has experienced a significant growth in…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational Trends
Gauthier, Roger-François – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
This is a critical reflection on the results of a study that the French International Center for Pedagogical Studies (CIEP) piloted in 2008-2009 in five sub-Saharan African countries which were implementing curriculum reforms adopting the "competency-based approach". The article refers to a seminar on this process and the ideas expressed…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Defise, Rosette – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
This article looks at the role that teacher training can play in implementing curriculum reform, specifically in studies conducted in French-speaking Africa by researchers at the UNESCO Chair in Curriculum Development. After reviewing the effects that reform has on the school as an organization, it establishes a link between the concept of change…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Change Strategies
Johnson, Ane Turner – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
In 2007, Kenya erupted into violence as a result of heavily contested elections. Because identity divisions lay at the heart of the conflict, the nation's public universities were deeply impacted, at times pitting students, faculty, and staff against one another, and disrupting the ability of Kenyan higher education to contribute to the…
Descriptors: Conflict, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Teacher Role
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