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Khalili, Samaneh; Kallioniemi, Arto; Bagheri Noaparast, Khosrow – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This article aims to identify and compare the characteristics of human agency in liberal and Islamic religious education, comparing Iran as a religious context influenced by Islamic state ideology with Finland as a liberal context and a secular state ideology. This comparison will be accomplished by document analysis of the national curricula for…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Comparative Education, Religious Education, Islamic Culture
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Mottaghi, Nazanin Rezazadeh; Talkhabi, Mahmoud – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
This study compares the national curriculum of Iran and the UK to find out how the educational system in developing countries such as Iran can be improved. Because of implementing thinking skills and cognitive education, the educational system in the UK benefits from a high-quality standard. The science of mind, brain, education introduces some…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Thinking Skills
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Moharami, Mehdi; Daneshfar, Samran – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
Education policy seeks to define the purpose of schooling and design the educational sphere according to authorities' objectives and people's needs. Governments set policies and principles to reach their intended goals in education, preserving people's values and culture. Many countries provide learning foreign languages in their curriculum to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Dryden-Peterson, Sarah; Adelman, Elizabeth; Bellino, Michelle J.; Chopra, Vidur – Sociology of Education, 2019
This article explores the understood purposes of refugee education at global, national, and school levels. To do so, we focus on a radical shift in global policy to integrate refugees into national education systems and the processes of vernacularization accompanying its widespread implementation. We use a comparative case study approach; our…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Refugees, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
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Mazlum, Farhad – Language Policy, 2022
Choosing which additional language to include in national curricula and when to begin teaching it are important educational policy decisions. The current study aims to provide a contextually embedded picture of such policymaking process in the Iranian context. More specifically, the study is intended to explain the agency mechanism of different…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role, Language Planning
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Mahmoudi, Leila; Bakar, Kamariah Abu – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2014
Textbooks are one of the important teaching materials in language teaching and a common resource for any teacher in helping students to learn English. Apart from being a learning tool, textbooks are considered as an important medium to realize curriculum goals and objectives. The purpose of this study is to investigate the amount of compatibility…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction