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Musselin, Christine – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
This paper explores two new perspectives for the research on higher education. Building on the case of Europe with a special focus on France, it first addresses the trend toward more competition and more differentiation that can be observed in countries that traditionally were more egalitarian and the strong implication of European states in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Role of Education
Mary, Latisha; Young, Andrea S. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This article presents data from a longitudinal study undertaken in a pre-primary classroom of 3-4-year-old emergent bi/plurilingual children during their first year of formal schooling in France. It focuses on how the teacher's intercultural competence facilitated the emergent bilingual children's transition from home to school and fostered…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Awareness
Cavaco, C.; Lafont, P.; Pariat, M. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2014
This article analyses the influence of the European Union's educational policies on the implementation of devices for the recognition and the validation of informal and non-formal learning within public policies on education and training for adults in European Union Member States. Portugal and France are taken as examples. The European Union's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Informal Education, Educational Policy
Mary, Latisha; Young, Andrea – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
In France, dominant monolingual discourses and teachers' lack of knowledge about bilingualism and second language acquisition often result in 'French only' policies in classrooms including in pre-school classrooms where some emergent bilingual children speak a language other than the language of schooling and very little or no French. These…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Preschool Education, Bilingualism, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Harrison, Michelle Anne – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
This article examines the current situation of regional language bilingual primary education in Alsace and contends that the regional language presents a special case in the context of France. The language comprises two varieties: Alsatian, which traditionally has been widely spoken, and Standard German, used as the language of reference and…
Descriptors: German, Language Variation, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students
Hardouin, Magali; le Goff, Erwan – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2013
For almost a century, Longwy has been one of the most important industrial areas of France, contributing the majority of the national production of cast iron and steel. The objective of this paper is to analyse how higher education, then health and well-being were mobilised in the process of regeneration of Longwy, which had been very harshly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Urban Renewal
Busch, Matthias; Morys, Nancy – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Purpose: This article focuses on recent developments in the domain of civic education in the French education system, the new programme on "Enseignement moral et civique" (EMC), and the debate about the relevance of the basic values of the Republic which came up after the terror attacks in January 2015. Method: The study is based on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Civics
Garcia, Nuria – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Through a comparison of France and Germany, this article investigates why the overall conception of multilingualism promoted by the education systems of the two countries favours the teaching of "useful" European standard languages over that of minority and migrant languages that are conceived in merely cultural terms. Adopting a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Multilingualism
van Zanten, Agnès; Maxwell, Claire – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Employing a Weberian understanding of the centrality of a strong bureaucracy in the modern nation-state, this article examines the relationship between the state and elite education in France. Through a historical analysis and an examination of two current issues facing education--widening participation and pressures to internationalise--we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Correlation, Government School Relationship
Castejón, Alba; Zancajo, Adrián – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
This article focuses on analysing the effect of educational differentiation policies of OECD educational systems on socioeconomically disadvantaged students, based on data from PISA 2009. The analysis is conducted on the basis of a definition of two subgroups of disadvantaged students: those that achieve high scores, and those obtaining scores…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Individualized Programs
Hyatt, David; Meraud, Julie – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015
Successive republican governments in France have constructed a complex educational context, which is rhetorically committed to a myth of provision of educational equality of opportunity whilst in practical terms it is characterised by a system focused on the production and reproduction of elites. This article aims to consider the political drivers…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Nationalism, Cultural Context
Ait-Mehdi, Halima – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
Strongly influenced by the paradigm of republican universalism, education policy in France favours an approach that largely relativizes, or even denies, the dimension of cultural diversity. The content of the secondary school history curriculum reveals this phenomenon. In the 2007-2008 school year, 185 students in the final 2 years of secondary…
Descriptors: Land Settlement, Questionnaires, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
Kearney, Sean – Cogent Education, 2014
The problems that teachers face early in their careers are a major factor in growing rates of attrition among neophyte teachers. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, high rates of attrition, coupled with and aging teacher population in many countries in the developed world, may cause a teacher shortage crisis in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teacher Induction, Best Practices, Program Implementation
OECD Publishing, 2018
Taking the students' perspective, Education Policy Outlook 2018: Putting Student Learning at the Centre analyses the evolution of key education priorities and key education policies in 43 education systems. It compares more recent developments in education policy ecosystems (mainly between 2015 and 2017) with various education policies adopted…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education
Deissinger, Thomas; Heine, Robin; Ott, Mariska – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
Germany's apprenticeship system is and has always been considered to be the major sub-system of VET. In this context, the debate circling around the European and German Qualifications Framework (EQF and DQR) has become one of the central issues of VET research and policy. Tasks take on a concrete shape if (a) a serious approach is adopted towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Lifelong Learning