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Landini, Fernando; Conti, Santiago – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2023
Purpose: This article aims at identifying the individual factors and socio-demographic variables contributing to extension agents' support for a ToT extension approach. Design/Methodology/Approach: A multiple linear regression analysis was conducted using samples of extension agents from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Nigeria. Findings: The…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Extension Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production
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Sá, Elisabete; Dias, Diana; Sá, Maria José – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
The role of the university in society and the economy is evolving. Universities produce knowledge that promotes technological developments, which are, in turn, critical to economic growth and competitiveness in the global economy. Therefore, it is increasingly expected that universities become more entrepreneurial and assume this third mission in…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Transfer of Training, Comparative Analysis
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Racine, Karen – History of Education, 2020
Spanish American independence leaders acted as both monitors and moralists for their emerging nations. Their adoption of the Lancasterian monitorial school system, along with their efforts to legislate new republican moral codes, revealed the contradictions that led to the failure of so many of that idealistic generation's dreams. They could not…
Descriptors: Moral Values, School Administration, Educational History, Political Attitudes
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Limones Meráz, Tomás Francisco; Amador, Julieta Flores; Reaiche, Carmen – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
To keep up with rapid evolutions in technical and scientific developments, countries must create competitive dynamics that enable key actors to generate high-tech projects, boosting both a country's productivity and economic development. Higher education institutions (HEIs), with their intellectual capital and as core generators of knowledge, are…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Foreign Countries, Competition, Technological Advancement
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Foladori, Guillermo – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2016
Science and Technology (S&T), like Research and Development (R&D), has become a case of capital investment like any other economic sector. This has distanced R&D from social needs, to the extent that part of R&D ends up actually being fictitious, in the sense that it acquires a price on the market but never becomes part of material…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science and Society, Intellectual Property, Research and Development
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Amanti, Cathy – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
This article explores the relationship between travelling education policies and a 2008 Mexican high-school reform from the perspective of Mexican educators. Using an ethnographic approach, consisting of interviews, classroom and community observations, and document analysis, study findings show that the educators participating in this study…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Change