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Li, Mei; Shankar, Sriram; Tang, Kam Ki – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the world's top 500 universities are located in only 38 countries, with the USA alone having 157 of them. This article investigates the socioeconomic determinants of the wide performance gap between countries, and whether the USA's dominance is largely due to its economic power. A large…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research and Development, Official Languages, Foreign Countries
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Gordon, Sue; Reid, Anna; Petocz, Peter – Studies in Higher Education, 2010
This article reports on an international study investigating university educators' ideas about the diversity of their students, carried out by using semi-structured email interviews. The information obtained from participants was analysed using a phenomenographic approach to obtain an outcome space, in which the narrowest conception ignored any…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Diversity, Investigations, Universities
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Albright, Ann Cooper – Research in Dance Education, 2003
This essay discusses issues of cultural difference in dance studies and presents specific pedagogical strategies for engaging the students' embodied knowledge as a research tool in both historical and cross-cultural investigations. (Contains 2 notes.)
Descriptors: Research Tools, Investigations, Cultural Differences, Teaching Methods