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Makropoulos, Josee – Bilingual Research Journal, 2009
The question of access to French-immersion programs has become a timely subject in Canada as a result of shifting political priorities, cutbacks, and growing concern around finding the most efficient way to teach French as a second language (FSL). While drawing on social selection and identity perspectives on school choice, this article presents…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Immersion Programs, School Choice, Parents
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Ou, Sheue-jen – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
In many nations educators are fighting to build a curriculum that reflects the knowledge and beliefs of all peoples rather than a dominant political power group. This perspective is particularly significant when examining school discourse in Taiwan, a country with a long-standing multicultural population and a diverse history of alien occupations.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Identification (Psychology)
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Silova, Iveta – European Educational Research Journal, 2005
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian education reform discourses have become increasingly similar to distinctive Western policy discourses traveling globally across national boundaries. Tracing the trajectory of "traveling policies" in Central Asia, this article discusses the way Western education discourses have been…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Global Approach