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Kathryn Anderson-Levitt; Meg P. Gardinier – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023
The new comparative research in this volume explores the global flow of competence-based education, curricular policy, and frameworks for instructional practice. Taking critical perspectives, the chapters trace the pathways through which educators and policy actors adopted and reshaped competence-based education as promoted by the OECD, the World…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Curriculum, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Zou, Yali, Ed.; Trueba, Enrique T., Ed. – 1998
The essays in this collection provide insights into the dilemmas faced by immigrants and ethnic minorities and by school personnel and policy makers. The first part of the book consists of comparative studies of ethnic identity, and the second part focuses on some lessons learned from studies of ethnic identification and equity, with implications…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Context Effect, Cultural Differences, Educational Policy
Stone, Clarence N., Ed. – 1998
This collection explores the political context of efforts to change urban education. The contributors examine various issues in a variety of settings, and they show how hard it is to rearrange political relationships so that they will be conducive to school reform. The following essays are included: (1) "Introduction: Urban Education in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1994
The chapters in this book were prepared during the second phase of a study conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to develop a set of International Indicators of Education Systems (INES). They were among the many studies presented at the General Assembly of the INES Project in Lugano (Switzerland), September 16-18,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Context Effect, Educational History, Educational Indicators
Mitchell, Candace, Ed.; Weiler, Kathleen, Ed. – 1991
Sixteen chapters discuss the relationship among literacy, culture, and difference in education; restructuring school curricula to meet the needs of those traditionally excluded from education's dominant discourse; the social and cultural context of literacy; and literacy's highly political nature. After "Series Introduction: Literacy,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Case Studies, Context Effect, Cultural Differences