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Direct linkShannon Mason; Liezel Frick; Montserrat Castelló; Wenjuan Cheng; Sin Wang Chong; Laura Díaz Villalba; Marina García-Morante; Ming Sum Kong; Yusuke Sakurai; Rachel Spronken-Smith; Crista Weise – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2025
The thesis by publication is expanding across countries, institutions and disciplines, and so a more in-depth understanding of the format across contexts is warranted, to ensure that all stakeholders understand the implications of this format and implement it in a fair and transparent manner. This paper provides a cross-sectional analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theses, Doctoral Programs, Educational Policy
Smolentseva, Anna; Platonova, Daria – Higher Education Policy, 2023
Soviet higher education had a distinctive institutional landscape. It combined two institutional types in a uniform model that embedded higher education in the national economy. This paper focuses on the post-Soviet system-level changes in the institutional landscape in all 15 countries of the former USSR. It shows that over last three decades the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Comparative Education, Educational Policy
Seyedeh Golafrooz Ramezani; Jani Ursin – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
In response to global competition in higher education, university rankings have been developed. These have been interpreted as indicating the regions and countries with the most prestigious and competitive higher education institutions. The rankings are viewed as important in many countries, but their role is ambiguous and contested in the Nordic…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Universities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Amanda Ince; Liz Bullough; Susanne Sahlin – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
This paper critically reviews England's National Professional Qualification of Early Years Leadership (NPQEYL) and Sweden's National Principal Training Program (NPTP). The design and implementation of these programs are critiqued considering the process of professional learning, with view of offering recommendations for future policies on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education, Principals
Nina Bartelink; Patricia Assema; Gerjanne Vennegoor; Kathelijne Bessems – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Although principles of the health promoting school (HPS) approach are followed worldwide, differences between countries in the implementation are reported. The aim of the current study was (1) to examine the implementation of the HPS approach in European countries in terms of different implementation indicators, that is, percentage of…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Institutional Characteristics, Comparative Education, School Surveys
Tresansky, Lindsay M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Annual Professional Performance Review (APPR) system in New York State (NYS) has been called into question by educators since its adoption nearly 10 years ago, yet it remains the mandated evaluation system in NYS schools today. Much of the concern has been over changes such as assigning teachers final evaluation scores, as well as for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Teacher Evaluation, Alternative Assessment
Edward Vickers; Sicong Chen – Comparative Education, 2024
This article provides an overview of the politics of education as they affect regions and communities on the periphery of the People's Republic of China. Drawing on the articles in this special issue of Comparative Education, it analyses tensions related to the attempted imposition of Bejing's homogenising and totalising vision of Chineseness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Nationalism, Comparative Education
Michael L. Skolnik – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Colleges are important providers of vocational education and training and in some countries they are the major provider. Although the international literature on colleges has grown considerably in the past two decades, it still consists primarily of qualitative descriptions of college sectors in different countries. Quantitative studies of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies
Michael Donnelly – Journal of School Choice, 2024
Does empirical evidence or ideology most influence homeschooling policy? It depends. Where empirical research and social experience abound, regulations seem less restrictive but where there is less data or experience policies seem more restrictive and ideologically driven. By comparing Europe and the United States with a look at South Africa,…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Educational Policy, Evidence Based Practice, Ideology
Download full textMohamed, Dalia Abdelwahad; Kandeel, Mohamed Metwally – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2023
Teaching the properties of geometric shapes in traditional ways does not help children to understand them, nor does it enable them to visualize them. It may need methods that correspond to the characteristics and tendencies of children and more interesting methods based on fun learning. Designing 3D geometric shapes with children through pop-up…
Descriptors: Play, Geometric Concepts, Kindergarten, Manipulative Materials
Mikko Kohvakka; Arto Nevala – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Studies of global university rankings often assume that rankings as Anglo-American policy scripts have an increasing influence resulting in a convergence of policies and practices, or that the ideas of rankings continue to diverge into national types. In this article, we take a middle ground by arguing that when an idea of ranking is grounded in a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Institutional Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Universities
Yijun Yang; Yeow-Tong Chia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
This article examines the process of China's borrowing of the Japanese vocational education model from 1895 to 1922 from the perspective of educational policy transfer. This study serves as a unique example in educational policy transfer research where historical sources offer the possibility of testing the applicability of the Contextual Map of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Historical Interpretation, Asian History
Chanwoong Baek; Andreas Nordin – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This study examines the reference societies of Norway and Sweden embedded in their education policy documents. We examined 4,260 bibliographic references in 19 white papers and green papers prepared for the 2016/2020 renewal of the Knowledge Promotion Reform in Norway and the 2015/2018 Knowledge Achievement Reform in Sweden. In addition, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Comparative Education
Evangelia Mavrikaki; Giulia Realdon; Tuomas Aivelo; Ani Bajrami; Çiçek Dilek Bakanay; Anna Beniermann; Jelena Blagojevic; Egle Butkeviciene; Bento Cavadas; Costantina Cossu; Dragana Cvetkovic; Szymon M. Drobniak; Zelal Özgür Durmus; Radka Marta Dvoráková; Marcel Eens; Esra Eret; Seckin Eroglu; Malgorzata Anna Gazda; Martha Georgiou; Neil J. Gostling; Tanja Gregorcic; Vanda Janštová; Tania Jenkins; Anttoni Kervinen; Konstantinos Korfiatis; Paul Kuschmierz; Ádám Z. Lendvai; Joelyn de Lima; Fundime Miri; Teresa Nogueira; Andreas Panayides; Sylvia Paolucci; Penelope Papadopoulou; Patrícia Pessoa; Rianne Pinxten; Joana Rios Rocha; Andrea Fernández Sánchez; Merav Siani; Elvisa Sokoli; Bruno Sousa; Panagiotis K. Stasinakis; Gregor Torkar; Asta Valackiene; Máté Varga; Lucía Vázquez Ben; Anat Yarden; Xana Sá-Pinto – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The contribution of school curricula to public understanding and acceptance of evolution is still mostly unknown, due to the scarcity of studies that compare the learning goals present in different curricula. To overcome this lack of data we analysed 19 school curricula (18 European and one from Israel) to study the differences regarding the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Evolution
Diana Gonçalves Vidal Ed.; Vivian Batista da Silva Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
This collection encompasses a period that spans two centuries, in which Brazil serves as a point of departure and of arrival for the analyses of circuits that, intertwined within the national borders, stimulate the reflection about international transits, hybridizations, and appropriations in a process of transnational circulation of subjects and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational History, Historiography, Educational Development
