Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the contours of the emerging business education and institutions in a multi-polar world and to identify the causes of the strategic convergence of management education, to explore the limitations of the dominant models of management education and to propose a range of strategic alternatives for…

The widely cited, though highly contested, idea that "the world is flat" (Friedman, 2004) carries with it a call for education to provide a leveling effect across continents and cultures Students in Skokie or in Skopje, as the theory goes, are expected to experience a school curriculum that shares certain common elements, goals, and…

This work is based on the experience of the authors' involvement in the development of a Masters of Vocational Pedagogy program in Uganda and Southern Sudan between 2007 and 2011. This is also grounded in work with Vocational Education and Culture (VET) over many years. The terms VET and Culture are interdependent; both terms are highly contested…

Higher education institutions seem to be becoming increasingly flexible with different functions. Most universities' mission statements involve teaching, research and service, but while the teaching and research missions are clearly defined and located within certain areas of the university activities, service is less clear and more ambiguous,…

This article extends understanding of the connections between education, social capital, and development through a mixed-methods case study of the Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial, or SAT, an innovative secondary-level education system. The quantitative dimension of the research used survey measures of social responsibility to compare 93 SAT…

In the mainstream discourse on child development and education, 'school readiness' has been conceptualized as the skills and knowledge that children need when they enter school in order to learn effectively in the school environment. However, school readiness is an idea which is entwined with our beliefs about child development and child needs (E.…

Presents 18 articles which were published in Chinese educational journals during 1979 and 1980. Topics discussed include the criterion of truth, the place of Mao Zedong in the ideology of education, the proper function of universities and colleges in relation to the economy, and the tremendous growth in the secondary education sector since 1965.…

Discusses four educational philosophies and how they affect education in this country and in developing countries, and then discusses the role of nonschool influences on education. (IRT)

Two limitations in the Report of the International Commission on the Development in Education reflect its unenthusiastic welcome from certain sectors of the Third World. The document failed to explain the phenomenon of inequality and of social and educational injustice and contained an ingenuous reliance on a scientific approach. (Author/KM)

Author considered the future of comparative education in terms of four interrelated worlds of discourse'', the world of new nations, crises in old nations, the world of scholarship, and the professional world of teacher education. (Author/RK)

Third World higher educational systems must be based on each country's development objectives to be most effective. This article by the deputy director-general of the World Health Organization discusses the effects of education on Africans, with emphasis on cultural contrasts with the West. (LBH)

This is an excerpt from a report, 1967-68, by the Ministry of Education, Republic of Cuba, to the International Conference on Public Education (31st, Geneva, July 1-10, 1968).

First in a series of World Bank pamphlets dealing with sectors to which the bank directs its developmental lending, this paper offers perspective on the characteristics, size, and philosophy of the Bank's lending program in education. The pamphlet, consisting of three major parts, first gives a brief view of trends in educational development,…

This article examines educational change in China caused by the cultural revolution and discusses its new educational policy and practice. (Author/RM)

This article talks about emphasizing how the educational system has adapted to serve those living in rural areas. (Author/RM)