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Margareta Serder – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
The aim of this study is to examine how a particular object for consumption, professional development for teachers and principals, is marketed to schools, and what propositions and understandings are embedded in such offers. Adopting a conceptualization of marketing as a "perpetual questioning machine," the study deploys and develops a…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Commercialization, Knowledge Economy, Professional Development
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Sjögren, Hanna – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Despite the good intentions in policies promoting education for sustainable development (ESD), this paper shows that, as university scholars and teachers, we need to critically engage with how student subjectivities are formed when global initiatives materialise in local educational practices. The analysis in this paper is based on focus groups…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Teacher Educators, Foreign Countries
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Borg, Farhana – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study explored preschool children's knowledge and views of other children's economic situation worldwide, and their self-reported sources of such knowledge. A total of 53 final-year preschool children, aged 5-6, from 12 preschools in Sweden were interviewed. Children's responses were analysed using content analysis and the Structure of the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Attitudes, Preschool Children, Preschools
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Puaca, Goran; Theandersson, Christer; Carlén, Margareta – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
Swedish higher education policy is currently moving toward consumption ideals that focus on promoting the efficiency and economic viability of student choices. This paper scrutinizes students' practical considerations when making decisions regarding their education and future occupations and the choice rationalities and motives that these reflect.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Vocational Education
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Gisslevik, Emmalee; Wernersson, Inga; Åberg, Helena; Larsson, Christel – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2016
Little is known what the term sustainable development entails in relation to the school subject of home and consumer studies and the subject's knowledge area of food. The aim is to illustrate how food is expressed in national syllabuses of home and consumer studies at present and in the past, and its operationalization into sustainable…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Food, Qualitative Research
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Pate, Sandra K. – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2016
International businesses face a difficult task when trying to decide where to place or expand a business that could be located anywhere in the world. Each country is a complex system of human capabilities, technical systems, [infrastructure bases, laws, cultures and economic systems. How can a company know which country is best for it today, and…
Descriptors: Business, Corporations, International Trade, Site Selection