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Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning across the United Kingdom: Policy, Organisation and Governance
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Hodgson, Ann, Ed.; Spours, Ken, Ed.; Waring, Martyn, Ed. – Institute of Education - London, 2011
Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning across the United Kingdom brings together the perspectives of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from across England, Wales and Scotland to produce a rich, up-to-date and highly textured source of evidence about this under-researched sector. The contributors analyse how each country's…
Descriptors: Evidence, Democracy, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
Higher Faculties: A Cross-National Study of University Culture.
Podgorecki, Adam – 1997
This is a study of the current role of scholars and scholarship and their impact outside the academic realm. Chapter 1 presents an ideal scholarly paradigm, followed by a review of the literature on issues of scholarship and creativity in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3 a topology is proposed and explained to classify different types of scholars. These…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Education, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Stereotype Accuracy: Toward Appreciating Group Differences.
Lee, Yueh-Ting, Ed.; And Others – 1995
The preponderance of scholarly theory and research on stereotypes assumes that they are bad and inaccurate, but understanding stereotype accuracy and inaccuracy is more interesting and complicated than simpleminded accusations of racism or sexism would seem to imply. The selections in this collection explore issues of the accuracy of stereotypes…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Images, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education