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Desjardins, Richard; Melo, Veriene; Lee, Jeongwoo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
Using comparative data, this article examines the level and distribution of participation in adult education (AE) opportunities among countries that participated in PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies). It considers observed cross-country patterns in relation to some mechanisms that drive unequal chances to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Participation, Educational Policy
Yudkevich, Maria; Altbach, Philip G.; Rumbley, Laura E. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Global university rankings are often thought of as games, defined by roles and rules that universities must play in order to confirm their legitimacy and gain visibility as actors in the global academic market. While some countries are well represented at the top of rankings charts, others are just joining the race and testing out different…
Descriptors: Universities, Classification, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis
Bogachenko, Tatiana; Perry, Laura – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article examines the pedagogical dimension of vospitanie, or character formation, in communist and post-communist education. It explores how vospitanie is conceptualized in two teacher-education textbooks--one from each period--in Ukraine, a post-Soviet country. Comparative analysis shows how conceptualizations of vospitanie have evolved over…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Change, Teacher Education, Textbooks
Astiz, M. Fernanda – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This exploratory comparative case study examines three schools in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires that have a considerable number of recent immigrant students. The article illustrates how these schools advance ideas of inclusiveness and pluralism through the curriculum and educational opportunities, as mandated by the national education law of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Institutional Mission, Inservice Teacher Education
Nonoyama-Tarumi, Yuko; Hughes, Kathleen; Willms, J. Douglas – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article compares the effects of family background and school resources on fourth-grade students' math achievement, using data from the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In order to ameliorate potential floor effects, it uses relative risk and population attributable risk to examine the effects of family…
Descriptors: Role, Family Characteristics, Socioeconomic Background, Risk
Newton, Lynn D.; Newton, Douglas P. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The 2006 UNESCO conference "Building Creative Competencies for the 21st Century" had international participants and a global reach. The Director-General's proclamation that "Creativity is our hope" captured the essence of the proceedings and participants saw the focus on creativity as offering solutions to global problems.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Practices, Creative Thinking, Cultural Differences
Tarabini, Aina; Bonal, Xavier; Valiente, Oscar – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Schools in the most deprived areas in Brazil are marked by extreme poverty, a situation that has obvious consequences for the everyday life in schools and for efforts to develop a supportive culture of schooling. Nevertheless, schools' responses to poverty are far from uniform. Although the context of poverty generally determines what is possible…
Descriptors: Poverty, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Schools, Institutional Characteristics
Nordman, Christophe J.; Pasquier-Doumer, Laure – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
Young people in Africa encounter many difficulties in entering the labour market and in searching for decent and productive jobs. Research on the links between formal education and vocational training and their economic returns are especially crucial in understanding the inadequate demand for their labour. This article presents evidence based on…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, On the Job Training, Labor Market, Youth Employment
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
Romi, Shlomo; Lewis, Ramon; Roache, Joel – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
This paper discusses the degree to which recently reported relationships between the classroom management techniques and coping styles of Australian teachers apply in two other national settings: China and Israel. Little is known about which teacher characteristics relate to their approach to classroom management, although researchers in Australia…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coping, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices
Wiseman, Alexander W.; Al-bakr, Fawziah – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2013
In national education systems worldwide, teacher quality has become synonymous with education reform efforts, but a more elusive goal is empirically measuring teacher quality. One proposed measure of teacher quality, teacher licensing, also known as certification, is an increasingly ubiquitous component of national education systems and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Academic Achievement, Teacher Certification
Addy, Nii Antiaye – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the academic aims of curriculum reforms and the teaching roles related to them are similar, but non-teaching roles are likely to vary across countries. Taking an organization studies perspective, this article compares teachers' roles in reform along the Botswana-South Africa border. Though these teachers share language and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Preservice Teacher Education, Racial Segregation, Curriculum Development
Chisholm, Linda; Chilisa, Bagele – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
This article examines how different histories and contexts of political and educational change in Botswana and South Africa have shaped the more regular classroom practice observed in Botswana. It does this through an interpretive synthesis and comparison of four key moments of educational change in Botswana and South Africa during the twentieth…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Comparative Analysis
Reeves, Cheryl; Major, Thenjiwe – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
This article describes how a detailed notebook analysis was used to assess and compare the opportunity to learn of a sample of grade 6 students from 126 classes in South East Botswana and North West Province, South Africa. Students' mathematics notebooks provided the main data source for estimating how much time is spent on the subject during the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Test Items, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Irving, Margaret – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
This article compares key features of the labour markets for teachers across Botswana and South Africa in order to seek possible explanations for the apparently larger teacher shortages in South Africa. It is argued that South African teachers earn relatively lower wages when compared to professionals with comparable qualifications; they have also…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Qualifications, Unions, Comparative Analysis