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Capacity-Building Projects in African Higher Education: Issues of Coloniality in International Academic Collaboration
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Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine; Madsen, Lene Møller – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
This article studies issues of coloniality in so-called capacity-building projects between universities in Africa and Scandinavia. Even fifty years after independence, the African higher education landscape is a product of the colonial powers and subsequent uneven power relations, as argued by a number of researchers. The uneven geography and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, International Cooperation, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Policy
"EU-on-Demand": Developing National Qualifications Frameworks in a Multi-Level Context
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Elken, Mari – European Educational Research Journal, 2016
The development of comprehensive national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) across Europe has been sparked by the introduction of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) in 2008. Taking an institutional perspective, this article examines the development of NQFs in three countries, in light of developments that have taken place at the European…
Descriptors: Qualifications, National Standards, Educational Development, Educational Cooperation
"The Creation of New Settings": A New School Society.
Dalin, Per – 1975
This proposal for effective educational change is concerned primarily with the establishment of more appropriate systems for structuring the educational process in Europe following the developments in educational philosophy during the 1960s. Designed specifically to apply to the educational system in Norway but based on principles applicable to…
Descriptors: Affiliated Schools, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation