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Commentary: The Failure of Social Education or Just Going down the Road of Post-Democratic Politics?
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Menezes, Isabel – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
The paper "American democracy is distress: The failure of social education" presents several "symptoms of democracy's dysfunction in the United States". These include the extreme reliance on campaign contributions, giving the donors--economic elites and groups representing business, frequently operating at a transnational…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Democracy, Citizen Participation, Foreign Countries
The Use of Foreign Examples to Support Educational Policy Decisions: The Chinese Education Mission to Europe in 1932
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Li, Kaiyi – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2021
In 1932, with the help of the League of Nations, the Chinese government sent an educational mission consisting of five scholars to Europe, in order to investigate education in different countries as reference points for ongoing Chinese educational reform. This article argues that educators in the mission used foreign examples to support their…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Change
The Council of Europe's Citizenship Conception in "Education for Democratic Citizenship": A Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Textbooks
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Ververi, Olga – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
This paper presents a neocommunitarian conception of citizenship identified in two textbooks of the programme "Education for Democratic Citizenship," organised by the Council of Europe. Critical discourse analysis is applied to the key themes of the textbooks "T-Kit 7: Under construction: Citizenship Youth and Europe" and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Citizenship Education, Citizenship, Moral Values
Lessons of the Experiences of Adult Education in Eastern Europe.
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Basel, Peter – Convergence, 1993
Preoccupied with political and economic problems, new governments in Eastern Europe place a low priority on adult education. However, without education in new ways of thinking about citizenship, the promise of the democratic revolutions will not be fulfilled. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communism, Democracy, Educational Change
The Democratic Revolution. Proceedings of a Conference (Washington, D.C., May 1-2, 1989).
National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, DC. – 1989
Divided into seven sections, the presentations contained in these proceedings give an international perspective on the growth of democracy in the world, and the many obstacles that might inhibit it. The first section, on Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union contains papers from four East Block scholars who discuss the rise of democracy in communist…
Descriptors: Communism, Democracy, Democratic Values, Developing Nations
Issues Raised by Eastern Europe's Attempt at a Market Economy Attract Scholars.
Raymond, Chris – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1991
The article reports on efforts of scholars (including historians, political scientists, economists, and sociologists) to study the economic and political transformation taking place in Eastern Europe. Noted are analogies with Latin American development, difficulties of privatization, and contradictions between democracy and economic reform. (DB)
Descriptors: Democracy, Economic Change, Economic Impact, Higher Education
Finding the Answers: A Look at Central and Eastern Europe. [and] Setting Up Special Services: The Trade Union Approach.
Poloni, Cesare; Flechsenhar, Ullrich H. – Labour Education, 1990
Poloni reviews implications for unions of recent economic, social, technological, and political changes in Central and Eastern Europe. Flechsenhar states that unions play a role in the development and restructuring of developing countries by providing special services to meet the economic and social needs of their members. (SK)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Democracy, Developing Nations, Economic Development