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Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann Ed.; Marc Fabian Buck Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
The first of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic, this volume gathers international perspectives to critically assess how Waldorf education has been perceived and discussed in both public and academic arenas. The book thereby challenges the historical concept of Waldorf education as an international movement championing…
Descriptors: Reputation, Educational History, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy
Elsner, Paul A., Ed.; Boggs, George R., Ed.; Irwin, Judith T., Ed. – Community College Press (NJ3), 2008
In a global society and economy, education and training is essential to a nation's competitiveness and to the standard of living of its people. The need to open the doors of higher or further education beyond the relatively limited enrollments in elite and selective universities has spawned a movement to develop or expand institutions that are…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Living Standards, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Jacob, W. James – International Review of Education, 2006
A topic of growing concern in Chinese higher education to policy-makers, scholars, and future student applicants is social justice. With the trend toward increasing enrollments in China's higher-education institutions, issues of equity and access have begun to surface, especially as they relate to China's minority population of over 100 million…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
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Zhou, Minglang – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
The People's Republic of China has employed two means of literacy promotion: a campaign approach and a legislative approach to meet the needs of nation-state building through education. From 1949 through to the late 1970s, the campaign approach was motivated by a political rationale, but later an economic rationale also became important. From the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Literacy Education, Compulsory Education, Minority Groups
Ch'i, Hsi-sheng – 1997
This volume traces the history of a collaboration between the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and China's National Center for Education Development Research. The collaboration, which began in 1988, was initiated to conduct a comparative study of education in the two countries through information exchanges and seminars.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational History
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Liu, Sandra S. – Higher Education Policy, 1996
Hong Kong universities' purpose has historically been to fulfill colonial labor force needs for economic growth. The 1997 shift in Hong Kong's sovereignty to China will bring changes in higher education's direction and philosophy, probably characterized by greater emphasis on scientific, technological, and cultural exchange with other countries…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Change Strategies, College Role, Educational Change