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Direct linkThorolfsson, Meyvant; Finnbogason, Gunnar E.; Macdonald, Allyson – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
In recent decades, a consensus has emerged among educators and scientists that all compulsory school students need good science education. The debate about its purpose and nature as a school subject in an emerging information society has not been as conclusive. To further understand this, it helps to examine how the science curriculum has…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Ideology
Hudson, Christine – Education Inquiry, 2011
Public sector reform involving decentralisation and marketisation has led to "soft" indirect forms of governance aimed at steering more fragmented systems. Although based on information and guidance rather than hierarchy and legislation, these new methods of regulating through evaluation and quality control may be as powerful as more…
Descriptors: Governance, Compulsory Education, Educational Change, Administrative Organization
Peer reviewedEdelstein, Wolfgang – New Directions for Child Development, 1990
Draws an analogy between Kohlberg and Socrates in the substance and procedure of moral education from a societal perspective. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Compulsory Education, Educational Change, Educational Methods
Suppanz, Hannes – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
This paper reviews Iceland's performance in skills accumulation against the backdrop of a rapidly changing economic environment and discusses directions for further improvements. Since the late 1990s, the government has considerably raised expenditure on education, which is now among the highest in the OECD relative to GDP. Nonetheless, Iceland…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries
