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Beginning and End of the Itinerant Classrooms Considered Pedagogical Missions during the Franco Dictatorship (Spain, 1966-1977): Didactic Organisation and Socio-Educational Project
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Gómez, Fco. Javier Pericacho; Galán-Casado, Diego – History of Education, 2022
This article's purpose is to address a hitherto unexplored topic in the history of education: the story of the "Cátedras Ambulantes," officially referred to as "Misiones Pedagógicas" during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy (1966-1977). The study is based on a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Authoritarianism, Social Change, News Reporting
Policies and Practices in Educational Gerontology in Mainland China
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Li, Jie – Educational Gerontology, 2022
The development of educational gerontology (EG) policies in mainland China has gone through two stages, the social welfare stage (1982-2000) and the lifelong learning stage (2001-present), and a rudimentary system of EG provisions and legislation has been formed. Although a system of EG practices in mainland China has also been built under the…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Lifelong Learning
European Union and Greek Lifelong Learning Policy within an Intercultural Context: Preliminary Insights from Research in the Sociology of Law
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Koutidou, Evangelia – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2014
This paper presents preliminary findings of an extensive socio-legal research project, currently in progress, concerning the implementation of the European Union and the Greek institutional framework on lifelong learning (LLL) and exploring the social effectiveness of LLL policy. The main outcomes, based on testing two research hypotheses through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Educational Policy, Qualitative Research
Comparative Analysis of Legislative Provision of Adult Education in the USA and Canada (Case Study: Professional Development of Tourism Employees)
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Babushko, Svitlana – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2014
Today Ukraine is in the process of establishing an integral base for adult education and the system of employees' professional development. Hence, the research of the experience of the countries with a fixed, ramified, but integral system of normative and juridical documents in the above-mentioned fields can be of great use. Addressing to the USA…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Tourism, Employee Attitudes, Laws
State of Outrage: Immigrant-Related Legislation and Education in Arizona
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Powers, Jeanne M.; Williams, Tiffany R. – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2012
In April 2010, Arizona made national headlines when Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070, the "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" which was aimed at deterring illegal immigration to Arizona. SB 1070 is the most prominent of a series of laws and other state policies targeting immigrants in Arizona that date back to the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Laws, Law Enforcement, Neighborhoods
Iroquois Use of Customary Haudenosaunee and United States Law in Opposing Removal
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Haake, Claudia B. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012
This article seeks to explain the nature of the arguments the Iroquois presented to the US government in trying to prevent their removal. In the letters they wrote to the federal government from the 1830s to the 1850s they emphasized their own law as well as that of the United States. They drew on whatever perception of law they deemed was best…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Federal Government, Federal Indian Relationship, Treaties