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Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Storen, Inga – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2017
Much literature has focused on the influence of the World Bank with regard to policy reform in low-income countries. While this literature has been produced over the course of many decades, the underlying studies have not tended to take a multi-decade approach to examining the way that World Bank influence changes in a given country. Put…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Cote, Joost – History of Education, 2001
Draws comparisons between the Australian education directors, Frank Tate and Jacques Henry Abendanon. Discusses educational reform issues based on racial contexts and social, political, and cultural aspects in the British colony of Victoria and the Dutch colony of Java. Concludes that, though their politcal contexts are different, their views are…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Context, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Yeom, Min-Ho; Acedo, Clementina; Utomo, Erry – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2002
Case study of two main secondary education reforms in Indonesia in the 1990s: Expansion of basic education and the decentralization of curriculum. Discusses the social, political, and economic trends in the 1990s, context of the secondary education reforms, and the rationale for the reforms. Focuses on the curriculum decentralization design and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decentralization, Economic Factors, Educational Change
Hiroshima Univ. (Japan). Research Inst. for Higher Education. – 1980
The challenges of social change, values crises, societal needs for higher education, the internal dynamics of higher educational systems, and future reforms in higher education were discussed at the Second Hiroshima International Seminar on Higher Education. Topics discussed include: Higher Education in an Age of Internationalization (Michio…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Trends
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Zuhdi, Muhammad – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
As the most populous Muslim country in the world, Indonesia has a unique experience in dealing with Islamic education, a system that was established years before the country's independence. This paper summarizes the development of Indonesian Islamic schools with special reference to their changing curricula. Using the social constructionist…
Descriptors: Islam, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational History
Virasai, Banphot, Ed. – 1977
Papers and summaries of discussions from an international seminar on higher education in Southeast Asia in the next decade are presented. The seminar had the following three principal objectives: (1) to critically examine the state of higher education in Southeast Asia against socioeconomic and political realities; (2) to discuss problems and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Asian History, College Planning, College Role