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Mills, Maura J. – Management Teaching Review, 2017
Work motivation has long been considered a driving force behind optimal employee management. However, as the workscape continues its path toward increased globalization, today's managers must consider cultural influences on employee motivation to implement the most appropriate human capital management strategies within any given context. The…
Descriptors: Motivation, Personnel Management, Cultural Influences, Human Capital
Wrigley, Terry, Ed.; Thomson, Pat, Ed.; Lingard, Robert, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Changing Schools" places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on 14 case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented environmental and cultural challenges, the education…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Human Capital, Laboratory Schools
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Gasser, Kenneth W. – American Secondary Education, 2011
This article draws on the 21st Century Skills Movement and the successful teaching practices of Asian schools in order to provide five suggestions that secondary math teachers can incorporate into their classrooms in order to promote the skill set necessary for an ever-changing global economy. Problem-based instruction, student-led solutions, risk…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Teachers
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Munro, John – Journal of Research in International Education, 2007
This article examines the issue of fostering vocational knowledge from an international perspective. It is based on the belief that 21 st-century students would benefit from a study of human endeavour that has an intercultural foundation. It identifies the aspects of knowledge that may be seen to comprise vocational knowledge and uses one…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, International Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Outcomes of Education
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Boulding, Kenneth E. – Social Studies, 1992
Discusses the nature of the mind and education. Suggests that society learns more from mistakes than from simply replicating the mind of the teacher in the students. Expresses hope that the next century will be one of maturity in which society is able to see that old knowledge no longer applies to a changing world. (DK)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Costs, Educational Finance, Error Correction