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Direct linkBlumberg, Rae Lesser – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
Gender bias in textbooks (GBIT) is a low-profile education issue, given the 72,000,000 children who still have no access to schooling, but this article argues that GBIT is: (1) an important, (2) near-universal, (3) remarkably uniform, (4) quite persistent but (5) virtually invisible obstacle on the road to gender equality in education--an obstacle…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Gender Bias
Letukas, Lynn; Barnshaw, John – Social Forces, 2008
As our understanding of disaster shifts from an event concentrated in time and space to a social occasion occurring across time and space, so too must our explanations of disaster shift from theories of the middle range to broader theoretical frameworks. We explore the world-system approach in an effort to understand the upper limits of theory for…
Descriptors: Social Change, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Crisis Management
Gupta, Asha – International Journal of Educational Management, 2008
Purpose: This paper seeks to conduct an in-depth study of international trends in private higher education and focus on the Indian scenario. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology adopted is conceptual, analytical and comparative. Findings: Though there has been better acceptability of private higher education institutions in India today…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Trend Analysis, International Education
Prochner, Larry; Cleghorn, Ailie; Green, Nicole – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2008
This paper draws on the comparative and qualitative data from a triple case study carried out in three semi-rural early childhood education centres in Canada, India, and South Africa. The primary objective of this four year study was to provide in-depth understanding of the ways in which policy, practice, and culture intersect in semi-rural…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Space Utilization, Comparative Education
Ferrer-Balas, D.; Adachi, J.; Banas, S.; Davidson, C. I.; Hoshikoshi, A.; Mishra, A.; Motodoa, Y.; Onga, M.; Ostwald, M. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the key aspects of transformation of universities towards sustainability, such as the ideal characteristics of the "sustainable university", and the drivers and barriers in the transformation, by comparing the strategies of seven universities world-wide. Design/methodology/approach: A…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Educational Change, Comparative Analysis, Sustainable Development
Altbach, Philip G. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2009
China and India together account for almost 25% of the world's postsecondary student population. Most of the enrolment growth in the coming several decades will be in developing countries, and China and India will contribute a significant proportion of that expansion, since China currently educates only about 20% and India 10% of the age cohort.…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Akoojee, Salim; Nkomo, Mokubung – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
Access to higher education is a key challenge of the 21st century state. The link between higher education and personal and socio-economic development has intensified the need for ensuring that greater numbers of citizens have expanded access to and have been provided with quality higher education. The article seeks to explore how initiatives for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Higher Education, Sustainable Development
Goldman, Charles A.; Kumar, Krishna B.; Liu, Ying – RAND Corporation, 2008
China and India have faced similar conditions and challenges in education during their rapid industrial and social transformation. The two countries started building their national education systems under comparable conditions in the late 1940s. However, different policies, strategies, and historical circumstances have led them through different…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
Peer reviewedSirkin, Gerald; Sirkin, Natalie Robinson – Journal of General Education, 1973
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Policy, International Education, Letters (Correspondence)
Download full textSchmidt, William H.; Houang, Richard; Shakrani, Sharif – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2009
Whether to adopt national standards and tests has long been a subject of lively debate in the United States. With 47 states now participating in the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and a commitment from Education Secretary Arne Duncan to allocate hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to the development of common tests, the country is…
Descriptors: State Standards, National Standards, Foreign Countries, Federal Government
Goel, B. S. – Teacher Today, 1972
Author gives reasons for lack of educational change, the primary one being the support of the status quo by teachers and administrators. (SP)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Problems
Parker, Franklin, Ed. – 1972
This second volume focuses on the various aspects of education in India. One hundred and ninety-one dissertations are entered in this book and arranged alphabetically according to the author's last name. Entries range in date from the early part of the century to the mid 60's. Approximately one-third of these bibliographic entries are abstracted,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Comparative Education, Doctoral Dissertations
Singh, Amrik – Journal of the International Congress of University Adult Education, 1972
Author discusses the role played by Indian universities, and suggests a re-ordering of priorities and objectives. (SP)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, College Role, Comparative Education
Peer reviewedStrauss, Herbert L. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1971
Describes Indian higher education system, with an emphasis on scientific and technical education, and summarizes a conference on Chemical Education. Suggests some solutions to the major problems identified after a visit of one year as a faculty member of an Indian Technical Institute. (AL)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Colleges, Comparative Education, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSeshadri, C. – Comparative Education, 1976
Discusses critically some current policies and practices designed to promote equality of educational opportunity in India, the problems arising in connection with the relationship between education and society, the meaning of equality of educational opportunity, expansion of secondary and higher educational opportunities, and the implementation of…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Problems, Educational Strategies
