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Moreira, Antonio Flavio Barbosa; Macedo, Elizabeth – 1999
A study examined the conception of educational transfer, considering the foreign influence in Brazilian curriculum throughout the 1990s. The study criticizes the literature on educational transfer produced in the 1970s, mainly the works of Martin Carnoy (1974) and Philip Altbach and Gail Kelly (1984), arguing that their two theories understress…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research
Lewis, Jeanne G.; Roth, Margarete M. – 1993
American business education results in practitioners with high-level business skills but lacking the broader knowledge and habits of thought that enable them to use these skills in the complex global marketplace. This knowledge should include familiarity with the economic, political, social, and cultural diversity that is part of the human…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Business Administration Education, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context