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Wotipka, Christine Min; Svec, Joseph; Yiu, Lisa; Ramirez, Francisco O. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
Via a cross-national and longitudinal analysis, this study seeks to understand whether and to what extent school textbooks portray children as entities with status and agency. Our core argument is that in a world in which individuals are imagined as central to national progress, the extension of individual personhood and citizenship to children is…
Descriptors: Educational History, Comparative Education, Personal Autonomy, Cross Cultural Studies
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Ramirez, Francisco O.; Schofer, Evan; Meyer, John W. – Comparative Education Review, 2018
Recent decades have seen rapid growth of national participation in international tests as well as expanded national assessment testing. This article addresses the relationship between these forms of testing and educational developments: educational enrollments, women's participation in schooling, repetition rates, student centrism in the…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Comparative Education, Womens Education, Educational Development
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Frank, David John; Wong, Suk-Ying; Meyer, John W.; Ramirez, Francisco O. – Comparative Education Review, 2000
Changes in university history curricula were studied through examination of course titles and abstracts from 335 university catalogs representing 89 countries, 1895-1964. Findings demonstrate that decreasing curricular emphases on Western civilization, metropolitan centers, and nation-states and increasing attention to subnational and…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries