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Dobbins, Michael – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
This analysis focuses on changes in higher education governance in Poland and Romania in the post-communist era. The author applies a theoretical framework based on institutional isomorphism and historical institutionalism and maps the policy trajectories of both systems on the basis of three governance ideal-types. The public higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
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Kováts, Gergely; Heidrich, Balázs; Chandler, Nick – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
Higher education in Central Europe has been scrutinised from many different perspectives during the last 30 years. In our analysis, we focus solely on Hungary and specifically on two key areas: governance and organisational structure. Using an analytical model proposed by Leisyte (2014), we analyse how the governance and organisational structure…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Šerek, Jan – Youth & Society, 2017
This study shows that the beneficial impact of adolescents' involvement in civil society on their civic identity cannot be taken for granted. Employing the case of the Czech Republic, it is shown that this effect has vanished since early postcommunism to the present day. Survey data from two different generations of Czech middle adolescents were…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Self Concept, Social Change, Adolescents
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Lewin, David – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2017
This paper examines the debate between Liam Gearon and Robert Jackson concerning the politicisation of religious education. The debate concerns the extent to which secularisation frames religious education by inculcating politically motivated commitments to tolerance, respect and human rights. Gearon is critical of a supposed…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Political Attitudes, Religious Education, Prosocial Behavior
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Fedorov, Alexander; Levitskaya, Anastasia; Gorbatkova, Olga; Mamadaliev, Anvar M. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
The "thaw period" films (1956-1968) on the school/university topic can be conditionally divided into two stages: early (1956-1963) and late "thaw" (1964-1968), although, naturally, there was a somewhat diffusion between these periods. The "thaw" audiovisual texts about school and university life, according to the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Social Change, Social Systems, Teacher Student Relationship
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Early, Sherry L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
The leadership capacity of resident assistants can be impacted by many experiences, including involvement in mentoring relationships. The purpose of this study was to examine if and how resident assistants' leadership capacities are influenced by participating in mentoring relationships. Additionally, mentor-protégé race and gender pairings were…
Descriptors: College Students, Resident Advisers, Student Leadership, Leadership Qualities
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Hunter, Mark – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
From the 1980s and 1990s, governments around the world began to champion "parental choice" over schooling. Much of the existing scholarship has been based on examples taken from the global North. In such settings, where nuclear families are common, a major theme has been the privileged educational strategies and outcomes of middle-class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Social Class, Social Change
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Akello, Judith Abal; Lutwama-Rukundo, Evelyn; Musiimenta, Peace – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
This article presents findings of study on women's experiences of Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) as a gateway to their financial progress and welfare in Lango region, Northern Uganda. The qualitative study of 45 participants aimed at examining women's live changes resulting from using their acquired FAL knowledge and skills to participate in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Functional Literacy, Females
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Li, Jun – Comparative Education, 2017
University partnerships have been a key dimension of higher education development. Based on documentary analysis and empirical data, this study compares two distinctive models of university partnership experienced by China, first as a "recipient" with the Soviet Union in the 1950s and later as a "provider" with African…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Confucianism, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries
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Haynes, Chayla – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
An investigation of the literature revealed that racial consciousness and the behaviors of White faculty in the classroom appeared linked. A conceptual framework, Racial Consciousness and Its Influence on the Behaviors of White Faculty in the Classroom, was subsequently developed and tested in this constructivist grounded theory study. Findings…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Whites, Racial Attitudes, Racial Bias
Dietrich, Julie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Historically, American higher education aimed to serve a public good, to include attending to students' character development and addressing the myriad needs of society (Yanikoski, 2004). This purpose was fundamental to the educational thought of ancient Greek philosophers, upon which much of higher education rests today. Two themes clearly…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Employment Potential, Ethics, Personality
Wilker, Jodi Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers constitutes a major issue in postsecondary science education. Perseverance of women in STEM is linked to a strong science identity. Experiential learning activities, such as undergraduate research, increase science identity and thus should help keep women…
Descriptors: Womens Education, STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
Guan, Wei – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The current state of education focusing on standards and assessment, according to Wu (2004), reduces education to "technical problems and individual deficiencies, subject to surveillance and quality managerial procedures" (p. 308). This work uses Foucault's discourses of discipline and power to understand standardization as a political…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Moral Values, Epistemology, Thinking Skills
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Porus, V. N. – Russian Education & Society, 2014
The process of obtaining academic degrees in Russia has gone through serious distortions, and this has damaged Russian science. Existing administrative measures taken to correct the situation have been ineffective, and a radical transformation of the entire system of the training of scientific and scientific pedagogical cadres is required. [This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Degrees, Sciences, Social Change
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Rodríguez, Cristóbal – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2014
Recovering and critically examining the pioneering scholarship and history of George I. Sanchez provides an interpretation toward a legacy of a Chicana/o student and policy advocacy framework for Chicana/o scholars to consider. The author of this work applies a critical policy theoretical analysis by Frank Fischer to develop a Chicana/o student…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Hispanic American Students, Advocacy, Scholarship
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