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Hake, Barry – 1980
The three areas of educational activity recognized by the Dutch have developed historically into distinct and separate institutionalized sectors for educational provision for adults. These areas are knowledge-based, skill-based, and value-based. Each is the responsibility of a different governmental department and cabinet minister. Educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Community Education, Demonstration Programs
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1990
In the Netherlands, 15 to 17.5 percent of the working age population participated in further education and training for adults in 1985-88. Enterprises, state ministries, and private institutions supply adult education; enterprises, ministries, and sectoral institutions finance it. The Ministry of Education and Sciences provides basic education,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Comparative Perspectives on Dissemination and Knowledge Use Policies: Supporting School Improvement.
Peer reviewedLouis, Karen Seashore – Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization, 1992
This article argues that the U.S. dissemination system in education is unresponsive to organizational improvement needs, and that development of this bias is exacerbated by political, organizational, and programmatic thrusts in federal agencies. It is suggested that systems in the Netherlands and Denmark could provide useful models for adapting…
Descriptors: Bias, Change Strategies, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
