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Harsha Chandir; Jill Blackmore – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
The OECD's PISA is seen as a 'global yardstick' against which countries measure the quality of their education systems. In 2018 PISA included an assessment of global competence. This paper starts with the premise that in using a single global instrument to 'measure' this phenomenon, PISA claims standardisation over contextually rich data that can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Global Approach
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Akar, Bassel – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2016
Many educational programmes in societies affected by armed conflict aim to promote dialogic engagement as a fundamental aim and pedagogy for social reconstruction. Despite supporting government policies, classrooms show very little or no evidence of dialogic practices where learners (co-)construct knowledge with peers and engage in critical and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Reflection, Student Attitudes
Illinois State Office of Education, Springfield. Dept. of Planning, Research and Evaluation. – 1980
Curricular analyses, written by experienced teachers and experts, of the 1978 Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress (IIEP) results and teacher expectations regarding citizenship are presented. A random sample of 7,200 Illinois students within 360 schools (grades 4, 8, 11) were tested; results reflected their educational performance in these…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education