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Download full textMeinck, Sabine, Ed.; Fraillon, Julian, Ed.; Strietholt, Rolf, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education provision at an unprecedented scale, with education systems around the world being impacted by extended school closures and abrupt changes to normal school operations. The Responses to Educational Disruption Survey (REDS) investigated how teaching and learning were affected by the health crisis, and how…
Descriptors: Surveys, Cross Cultural Studies, COVID-19, Pandemics
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This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to cultural identity, set against the current backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses current discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to constructing national, ethnic and religious…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Global Approach, Nationalism, Ideology
NORDSCI, 2022
This volume includes three sections of the 2022 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Education and Educational Research; (2) Language and Linguistics; and (3) Sociology and Healthcare. Education and Educational Research includes 7 papers covering a full spectrum of education, including history, sociology and economy of education,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy, Health Services
Lange, Matthew – Cambridge University Press, 2011
In "Educations in Ethnic Violence", Matthew Lange explores the effects education has on ethnic violence. Lange contradicts the widely-held belief that education promotes peace and tolerance. Rather, Lange finds that education commonly contributes to aggression, especially in environments with ethnic divisions, limited resources, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Politics of Education, Violence
Bhandari, Rajika, Ed.; Blumenthal, Peggy, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Global student mobility is one of the fastest growing phenomena in higher education in the twenty-first century. Over three million students are currently mobile, crossing geographic, cultural, digital, and educational borders in the pursuit of an international education--a movement that has significant consequences for higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Higher Education, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
Rubin, Kenneth H., Ed.; Chung, Ock Boon, Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006
The purpose of this book, is to present a rather simple argument. Parents' thoughts about childrearing and the ways in which they interact with children to achieve particular parenting or developmental goals, are culturally determined. Within any culture, children are shaped by the physical and social settings within which they live, culturally…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Economic Progress, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Relationship
Freebody, Peter, Ed.; Welch, Anthony R., Ed. – 1993
Of interest to students of literacy, education, planning, and policy studies and cross-cultural analysis, this book examines the cultural and political dynamics underlying literacy. Case studies focusing on the historical role of literacy and the maintenance or suppression of marginal groups are complemented in the book by reports of data on…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Nugent, J. Kevin, Ed.; And Others – 1989
Noting that patterns of childrearing are highly variable across the human species, this book explores the developmental processes of infancy over a wide range of cultural and social environments. By presenting multiple alternative examples of the context of infant development, the book attempts to stimulate continued discussion on the ways in…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Child Psychology, Child Rearing
Early Intervention and Culture: Preparation for Literacy. The Interface between Theory and Practice.
Eldering, Lotty, Ed.; Leseman, Paul, Ed. – 1993
This collection of 20 papers addresses child development and early intervention issues related to literacy acquisition from a cross-cultural perspective. Titles of the papers are: (1) "Preparing Young Children for Literacy: Issues in Theory and Practice" (Lotty Eldering and Paul Leseman); (2) "Jomtien Revisited: A Plea for a…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Developed Nations
Saraswathi, T. S., Ed. – 2003
This book is based on lectures delivered by 12 cross-cultural social science scholars drawn from 7 countries to address critical issues related to knowledge construction in human development and allied disciplines. The book is organized into two major sections. Section 1 focuses on theoretical perspectives and Section 2 highlights ongoing research…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Children, Cross Cultural Studies
Valsiner, Jaan, Ed. – 1995
Using a comparative-cultural perspective, this collection of essays examines the co-constructivist nature of human development in culturally organized environments. The contributions also cover a large age span--infancy to adulthood. Chapters in part 1 cover two different directions in the study of early adult-infant interaction from a comparative…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Child Psychology, Children
Pelgrum, W. J., Ed.; And Others – 1993
The Computers in Education (Comped) study was designed as a two-stage survey. The first stage (1987-1990) was aimed at gathering information from a representative sample of schools at elementary, lower secondary and upper secondary level with regard to the state of computer use in education. The survey's focus was on the extent and availability of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Sanyal, Bikas C. – 1987
The relationship between higher education and employment (particulary underemployment and unemployment) is discussed in terms of a synthesis of 21 case studies of developing and developed nations. The countries discussed are: Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Egypt, Federal Republic of Germany, Malaysia, Pakistan, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, College Graduates, College Planning
Moore, Sarah Jane, Ed.; Morfit, Christine, Ed. – 1993
Selected writings by Richard Lambert on languages and international studies include the following: "Foreign Language Planning in the United States"; "Southeast Asian Language Instruction"; "Implications of the New Dutch National Action Plan for American Foreign Language Policy"; "Distance Education and Foreign…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cross Cultural Studies, Distance Education, Educational Finance
