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Schembs, Katharina – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
The first two Peronist governments (1946-1955) introduced extensive social reforms that notably improved working conditions and systematised vocational training. Thereby the foundations of the Argentine welfare state were laid and the working masses were socially included to an unprecedented degree: thus, they also constituted the majority of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Propaganda, Visual Aids, Citizenship Education
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Koehler, Maryan – Intercultural Education, 2009
This paper presents research on the current debate in the Netherlands regarding integration and the teaching of 'norms and values' to adult newcomers. Data consisting of national and local (city of Rotterdam) integration policy documents and interviews with those influential in policy making were analyzed using a grounded theory approach. The…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Role of Education, Foreign Countries, Values Education
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Shorten, Andrew – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2010
According to the "fragmentation objection" to multiculturalism, practices of cultural recognition undermine political stability, and this counts as a reason to be sceptical about the public recognition of minority cultures, as well as about multiculturalism construed more broadly as a public policy. Civic education programmes, designed to promote…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Cultural Pluralism, Public Policy, Minority Groups
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Langan, Elise S. – European Education, 2008
The French education system was created as a means to uphold the republican principles emanating from the Revolution. The first Article of the 1958 French Constitution says the Republic assures equality before the law of all citizens without distinction of origin or race. Theoretically at least, it is not only forbidden to discriminate, but to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Politics of Education, Equal Education
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Philippou, Stavroula – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2007
This article explores the possibilities of shifting ethnocentric bias in curricula and pupils' constructions of national and European identities using the concept of "Europe" as a tool. The European dimension was conceptualized as a subtle approach, within the deeply divided society of Cyprus, to alleviate the ethnocentrism of history…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Educational Change
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Basu, Ranu – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2006
In an "ideal" democratic society, publicly funded schools serve many purposes. Aside from its educational mandate, schools are places for neighbourhood integration, social capital formation and the fostering of civil society. For newly arrived immigrants, especially those with young children, schools are important sites of settlement…
Descriptors: Democracy, Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Immigrants