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Education Governance in Action: Lessons from Case Studies
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Burns, Tracey; Köster, Florian; Fuster, Marc – OECD Publishing, 2016
Governing multi-level education systems requires governance models that balance responsiveness to local diversity with the ability to ensure national objectives. This delicate equilibrium is difficult to achieve given the complexity of many education systems. Countries are therefore increasingly looking for examples of good practice and models of…
Descriptors: Governance, Case Studies, School Administration, Best Practices
Shaping Education Policy: Power and Process
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Mitchell, Douglas E., Ed.; Crowson, Robert L., Ed.; Shipps, Dorothy, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Shaping Education Policy" is a comprehensive overview of education politics and policy during the most turbulent and rapidly changing period in American history. Respected scholars review the history of education policy to explain the political powers and processes that shape education today. Chapters cover major themes that have…
Descriptors: Productivity, Urban Schools, Equal Education, Democracy
Reforming Teaching Globally. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education
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Tatto, Maria Teresa, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2007
This book seeks to raise the discussion of globalisation's effects on teacher education, development and work, and its reforms and institutions, to a more theoretical and analytical level, and to provide specific examples in the comparative tradition to illustrate teacher policy in the context of education systems' widespread variability and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teacher Education, Educational Change, Comparative Education
Philosophy of Education, 1977-1978.
Jelinek, James John, Ed. – 1978
This publication contains the proceedings of the 26th annual meeting of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society in December, 1977. Eleven papers discussing the philosophy of education are presented. In the first paper "Philosophical Analysis: Whither or Thither?" the author discusses the drive towards systems analysis and logical…
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Education, Conference Reports, Cultural Pluralism
Higher Education Policy: An International Comparative Perspective. Issues in Higher Education Series.
Goedegebuure, Leo, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book is the result of a research project on the most important principles, structural features, and functionalities of higher education policies in 11 developed nations around the world. Reports on each nation, are based in large part on analysis of responses to a common questionnaire by national experts in each nation. An opening chapter,…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Administration, Comparative Education, Developed Nations
Inclusive Education at Work: Students with Disabilities in Mainstream Schools.
Labon, Don – 1999
This report details a study of how inclusive practices for students with disabilities are being developed and implemented in eight countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The study aimed to describe national, regional, and local policies on inclusion and school-based practices and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, Comparative Education, Curriculum Development
HRD Trends Worldwide: Shared Solutions To Compete in a Global Economy. Improving Human Performance Series.
Phillips, Jack J. – 1999
This book, which is intended for individuals involved in developing, delivering, and supporting human resource development (HRD) programs, discusses worldwide HRD trends that were identified in a study of the HRD practices in 35 countries. Chapter 1 discusses the importance of the HRD trends identified and explains how they were identified.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgets, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis