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Direct linkHayfa Jafar – Higher Education Policy, 2024
The US-led invasion in 2003 created opportunities for Iraq to establish American-style universities. Drawing on policy borrowing and educational transfer theory and using interviews as the primary method of data collection, this study examines how the American-style universities are rationalized and appropriated by various actors at national,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, International Relations
Download full textThompson, Doug – Journal of College Admission, 2012
This article presents the author's response to "Surviving the War: A College Counselor's Journal" by Philip Clinton. He argues that Clinton's engrossing account of the 1990-91 school year at Cairo American College (CAC) gives individuals wonderful insights into the unusual challenges occasionally encountered by an international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Counselors, Educational Counseling, Social Influences
Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra; Banchs, Rafael E.; Kaltenbrunner, Andreas – Human Communication Research, 2012
This article examines how emotional reactions to political events shape public opinion. We analyze political discussions in which people voluntarily engage online to approximate the public agenda: Online discussions offer a natural approach to the salience of political issues and the means to analyze emotional reactions as political events take…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Opinions, Elections, Agenda Setting
Ment, David M. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2011
In a significant 1925 essay, "Western Education in Moslem Lands", Paul Monroe addressed the emerging cultural and political forces faced by American educators in the Middle East. Monroe was widely recognised at the time as editor of the Cyclopedia of Education and director of the International Institute of Teachers College, Columbia…
Descriptors: Muslims, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Role
Blankemeyer, Maureen; Walker, Kathleen; Svitak, Erika – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2009
This research incorporated an ecological approach to examine American and Northern Irish children's understanding of the 2003 war in Iraq and the sources of information from which they acquired that understanding. Responses to interviews indicated that the children from the two countries had some common conceptions of and sources of information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Children, Concept Formation
Walgrave, Stefaan; Verhulst, Joris – Social Forces, 2009
This study tackles the question to what extent the composition of protest events is determined by the stance of governments. Established contextual theories do not formulate propositions on how context affects individual protesters. The article engages in empirically testing whether the macro-context affects the internal diversity of the crowds…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, War
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2006
This article discusses the withdrawal of the United States government from educational reform in Iraq. It has however, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, awarded a two-year National Capacity Development contract, which is aimed at helping Iraq's government ministries to function better. This article discusses how security…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Foreign Countries, Grants, Educational Change
