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Ainley, John, Ed.; Schulz, Wolfram, Ed.; Friedman, Tim, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
The International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) is the largest international study of civic and citizenship education ever conducted. Over 140,000 Grade 8 students, 62,000 teachers, and 5,300 school principals from 38 countries participated in this study. Among these were five from Asia, 26 from Europe, six from Latin America, and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, National Curriculum, International Education, Regional Characteristics
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Stevenson, Harold W. – Educational Leadership, 1993
Recent research shows that an achievement gap exists between U.S. and Asian students. One reason is that U.S. students, their parents, and their teachers maintain unnecessarily lower performance standards than their Chinese and Japanese counterparts. Even with higher standards, longer school days, and new curricula, academic achievement will not…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2013
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2013 proceedings: (1) Teaching About Asia in a Social Science Education Program (Cyndi Mottola Poole and Joshua L. Kenna); (2) Teaching Students about…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Education Courses
Schmidt, Hermann – 1999
Advances in information technology are changing industrialized societies into knowledge societies. The end of the cold war has promoted development of a global economy. Growing ecological consciousness has necessitated that environmental knowledge become part of all education. As the need to remain competitive increases, a new balance in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Change Strategies, Economic Change
Online Submission, 2006
South-East Asia is a region of vast development diversity but also many commonalities. And the development of higher education in the region, stemmed from its different historical background is changing rapidly towards their respective socio-economic needs. The publication is a joint research study by UNESCO Bangkok and Southeast Asian Ministers…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Institutional Autonomy, Educational Change