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Equality and Diversity in Vocational Education: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Trainers' and Trainees' Attitudes in Six European Countries
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Fine-Davis, Margret; Faas, Daniel – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article presents results of a cross-cultural comparison of trainer and trainee attitudes towards a variety of diversity issues, notably attitudes towards non-national trainees and those from other ethnic, religious and racial groups. Cross-cultural comparisons are made in the six European countries studied: France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Diversity, Vocational Education, Cross Cultural Studies
Parental Involvement of Immigrant Parents: A Meta-Synthesis
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Antony-Newman, Max – Educational Review, 2019
As a key predictor of students' academic achievement parental involvement has been in the centre of attention of both educational researchers and policymakers for quite some time. Immigrant parents represent a growing, but under-researched group with its distinctive experiences and expectations. This study provides a systematic synthesis of 40…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Assimilation and Affirmative Action in French Education Systems
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Langan, Elise S. – European Education, 2008
The French education system was created as a means to uphold the republican principles emanating from the Revolution. The first Article of the 1958 French Constitution says the Republic assures equality before the law of all citizens without distinction of origin or race. Theoretically at least, it is not only forbidden to discriminate, but to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Politics of Education, Equal Education
Higher Education in a Global Society Achieving Diversity, Equity and Excellence (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research Policy and Praxis, Volume 5)
Elsevier, 2006
The "problem of the 21st century" is rapidly expanding diversity alongside stubbornly persistent status and power inequities by race, ethnicity, gender, class, language, citizenship and region. Extensive technological, economic, political and social changes, along with immigration, combine to produce a global community of great diversity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Higher Education, Student Diversity
Education of Minorities and Peace Education in Pluralistic Societies.
Iram, Yaacov, Ed.; Wahrman, Hillel, Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers provides an international perspective on minorities and peace and on the relationship between these two issues in education. The 14 papers are: (1) "Education of Minorities: Problems, Promises, and Prospects--An International Perspective" (Yaacov Iram); (2) "Cultural Recognition or Social Redistribution:…
Descriptors: Arabs, Citizenship Education, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student)
France: Innovations for the 1982-1983 School Year.
Western European Education, 1985
Educational innovations in France concerning the priority areas of education, the objectives of the college, procedures for pupil guidance, and the second long cycle are described. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives
Admission to Medical Education in Ten Countries.
Burn, Barbara B., Ed. – 1978
As part of a study of access and admission to higher education in Germany and the United States, a group of papers on medical admissions in various countries was commissioned. The papers presented in this book reveal wide differences in admissions policies and procedures. Barbara Burn examines some of the major issues in a foreword: representation…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, Comparative Education