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Akkari, Abdeljalil; Lauwerier, Thibaut – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article analyzes the role that international organizations play in orienting education reforms and changes, based on an examination of key texts these organizations produced in the 1990s. The analysis shows that some specific trends persist: UNESCO and UNICEF centre their philosophy on a humanistic and child-centered vision of education,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, International Organizations, Educational Quality, Governance
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
Hofstetter, Rita – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
The founders of the International Bureau of Education (IBE) in Geneva were convinced the best way to develop understanding between peoples was by disseminating knowledge: collecting pedagogical materials from around the world, making them accessible to all, and enriching them through collective studies and conferences where attendees could engage…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Public Education, History, Comparative Education
Droux, Joëlle; Hofstetter, Rita – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Over the past two decades, historians have dedicated a growing amount of research to the history of globalization. This introduction shows how the articles in this issue contribute to this dynamic, aiming to illustrate its heuristic potential in historicizing educational phenomena. The field of education is presented as a relevant platform for an…
Descriptors: Educational History, Global Approach, Heuristics, Educational Policy
Droux, Joëlle – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
In recent decades, historical studies of public policies on children and youth have paid scant attention to the transnational dimension which may have governed their emergence. This article focuses on the transnational perspective of social and cultural history, to understand the role that international organizations have played in disseminating…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Child Welfare, Social History, Institutional Role
Fuchs, Eckhardt – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
The article addresses international efforts at child protection, emphasizing the criminal law on juveniles before 1914, and focuses on key international organizations and their various conferences and congresses. Although there was an institutional divide between welfare in general, child protection and youth crime, the organizations covered…
Descriptors: Punishment, Juvenile Justice, Courts, Foreign Countries
Moody, Zoe – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
Over the course of the 20th century, the social and legal status of the child evolved considerably. One remarkable illustration of this process can be seen by tracing the evolution of specific international treaties on the rights of the child. Although developments in national legislation inspired the authors of these treaties, it was through…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Treaties, International Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations
Dugonjic, Leonora – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
What are the origins of international schools? Authors in the fields of education and institutional history often point to the "need" of an invisible group of parents. This need, and the "demand" these schools claim to fulfill, haunt common discourse. From a historical and sociological viewpoint, however, these are precisely…
Descriptors: International Organizations, International Schools, Educational History, Government Employees
Huber, Valeska – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article traces the influence of international networks in three Middle Eastern universities from the 1920s onwards: the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It shows how American, internationalist, imperial and religious actors competed and how the universities were placed in…
Descriptors: War, Foreign Countries, Networks, International Cooperation
Schieffer, Alexander; Lessem, Ronnie – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article describes an approach towards a fully transformed university, coined Integral University. Linking Education (E), Research (R), Activation (A) and Catalysation (C), it can "CARE" for individual, organisation, communal and societal development. Within it, theory and practice, knowledge creation and transformative action go hand…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Holistic Approach, Theory Practice Relationship
Mani, Rama; Elworthy, Scilla; Gopinath, Meenakshi; Houston, Jean; Schwartz, Melissa – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
At a time of unprecedented multiple crises threatening life on earth, the wholesale transformation of cultures and societies has never been more imperative. This article draws on insights and experiences of a group of women leaders who met in Oxford in October 2013, for five days of intensive thinking and discussion on the emerging future. They…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society), Creativity
Tedesco, Juan Carlos; Opertti, Renato; Amadio, Massimo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article highlights some of the key issues in current discussions around curriculum, such as values education, inclusive education, competency-based approaches, soft and hard skills, and scientific and digital culture. It starts with the assumption that quality education for all is necessary to achieve social justice, and it looks at curricula…
Descriptors: Values Education, Inclusion, Equal Education, Curriculum Design
Mitra, Sugata – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This paper describes the effect that assistive technologies, such as paper, printing, protractors, logarithm tables, computers, and the Internet, have on pedagogy. It reports the results of experiments with self-organising systems in primary education and develops the concept of a self-organised learning environment (SOLE). It then describes how…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Teaching Methods, Educational Environment, Technology
Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Constraints, Comparability and Policy in Developing Countries
Wagner, Daniel A.; Castillo, Nathan M. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
United Nations development goals have consistently placed a high priority on the quality of education--and of learning. This has led to substantive increases in international development assistance to education, and also to broader attention, worldwide, to the importance of children's learning. Yet, such goals are mainly normative: they tend…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Developing Nations, Educational Quality, International Organizations
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