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Benjamin Goh – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
Most studies of sex education center on local Anglo-Euro-American contexts, tracing the origin of sex education to a coordinated response to the spread of venereal diseases. These neglect the circumstances in which sex education developed in the developing world between the 1950s and 1980s: a growing collective anxiety about rising birth rates…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Educational History, Developing Nations, Politics of Education
de Freitas, Sara; Waring, Peter; Douglas, Heather E.; Curtis, Guy J.; Ritchie, Stephen M. – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Transnational education (TNE) has grown significantly in developing countries but providing quality and scaling to large student numbers is a challenge for universities. Blended learning offers a potential solution for scaling at high quality. A large-scale project delivering a blended learning programme for TNE students in South-East Asia was…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Student Attitudes, Need Gratification, Developing Nations
Hussaini, Nilofer – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
South Asian economies has witnessed very slow growth over the years and the gap has widened manifold between other nations of Asia particularly East Asian nations and South Asian nations. This paper examines co-integration between the economic growth and reach of higher education in South Asian nations explaining this disparity. The research…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Developing Nations, Higher Education, Correlation
Dempster, Edith R. – Science & Education, 2020
The paper reports a study that used a Bernsteinian analysis in order to investigate the association between higher primary science curriculum and social equity in four contrasting socioeconomic contexts: British Columbia (Canada), Singapore, South Africa and Kenya. The official science curriculum of each jurisdiction was analysed in terms of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Socioeconomic Influences, Context Effect, Correlation
Mammadov, Rza; Çimen, Ismail – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The present study aims to determine the relative efficiency of 28 countries participated in PISA 2015 and TALIS 2013 based on student performance and teacher quality, and to sort the countries according to their efficiency scores by using a super efficiency model. Moreover, this study attempts to reveal important improvements countries must make…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Glassow, Leah Natasha; Jerrim, John – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Unequal access to qualified teachers for children of different socioeconomic status--also known as inequitable teacher sorting--has been increasingly put forth as one potential factor contributing to the socioeconomic achievement gap. Despite this, few studies have investigated cross-national differences in teacher sorting, and none have examined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Tests, International Assessment
Machmud, Muhammad Takwin; Widiyan, Agung Purwa; Ramadhani, Noer Risky – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
This study has an objective to identify the development and policies of educational technology application in ASEAN [South East Asia Region] countries. Through the literature review and analysis, this recent study has compared the issue of educational technology development and policies in ASEAN countries. The reviewing country has been chosen…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Advancement, Internet
Lishchinsky, Orly Shapira – Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
The goal of this study was to explore the shared meaning of 'ethics in school practice' based on educators' attitudes. Our analysis focused on a random sample of 30 codes of ethics for educators that were developed by educational leaders in various countries. The data analysis was based on qualitative analysis. The findings generated a…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Ethics, Educational Practices, Teacher Student Relationship
Jimenez, Jeremy; Moorhead, Laura; Wilensky, Tova – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
This article analyzes students' perspectives on sustainable development, environmental justice, and concomitant environmental education programs at two international schools in Singapore. Data include surveys of over 250 students and 19 focus-group interviews with 300 students. In addition to having a detailed and nuanced understanding of the…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Social Justice, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education
Chan, Shirley – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
This article is predominantly concerned with the global challenges associated with managing an academic workforce in an era characterised by increased demand for higher education. In scrutinising global trends in higher education and academic workforce management, the article will address two research questions. First, what are the global trends…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Trend Analysis, Personnel Management
De Lange, Paul; Jackling, Beverley; Suwardy, Themin – Accounting Education, 2015
Drawing on research in the sociology of professions as a reference point, this study examines the practices and perceptions of professional accountants towards the requirements of IES7 on continuing professional development (CPD). Responses from 1310 accountants in the Asia Pacific region suggest while increasing globalisation has led to more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Professional Development, Professional Personnel
Bridges, David – Ethics and Education, 2014
The focus of this paper is on a variety of practices associated with the transfer of educational policy and practice from one national education system to another--practices sometimes referred to as "policy borrowing". Its concern is with the ethical and political issues raised by these practices. In particular, it discusses concerns…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Developed Nations
Maca, Mark; Morris, Paul – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
After WWII, the economic prospects of the Philippines, then the second-largest economy in Asia, were viewed positively, but by the mid-1970s it had become Asia's developmental puzzle for its failure to sustain economic growth. In contrast during the same period, regional neighbours, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore, achieved previously…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Welsh, Richard O. – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2012
Between 1960 and 2010, Singapore's real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita skyrocketed from $4,383 to $55,862, while Jamaica's barely increased from $6,417 to $8,539. It is plausible that differing rates of GDP growth are associated with differences in the development of education systems but causally the linkage is not well understood. Using…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Global Approach
Koh, Kim H.; Tan, Charlene; Ng, Pak Tee – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2012
Using Singapore as an example, we argue that schools need to equip and encourage teachers to adopt authentic assessment in teaching and learning so as to develop the students' higher-order thinking. The importance of teaching and assessing higher-order thinking in Singapore classrooms is encapsulated in the vision of "Thinking Schools"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Thinking Skills