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Faubert, Brent – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2021
Scholars have become increasingly vigilant about leaders, the role of government and wider governance bodies, and their influence on education policy. Councils in Europe and North America, generally, and education councils, specifically, are good examples of influential bodies whose decision-making processes have rightfully come under scrutiny;…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Government Role
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Mäkinen, Sirke – Comparative Education, 2021
Why have regimes and societies that would otherwise argue for their distinctiveness and sovereign decision-making caught 'ranking fever' in HE? Why are they willing to give up their sovereignty in the field of HE, and why do they accept the requirement of homogeneity to succeed in global university rankings? This paradox is explored in the case of…
Descriptors: Reputation, Comparative Education, Decision Making, Higher Education
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Shibanova, Ekaterina; Malinovskiy, Sergey – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This research explores the interrelations of higher education and welfare state models in the USSR of the 1960-1980s and Russia of the 2000-2020s. We first address the extent to which the provision of higher education aligns with the key imperatives of welfare redistribution: eligibility, state-market balance, and equality. Second, we schematize…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Systems, Social Change, Welfare Services
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Thorpe, Vicki; Kinsella, Victoria – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2021
New Zealand has its educational roots in 19th and 20th century British educational systems with close similarities between English and New Zealand secondary school education structures. In the last two decades, however, secondary school education in both countries has experienced multiple and sometimes radical reforms. Educational policy has…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Visual Arts, Art Teachers, Music Teachers
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Xiong, Tao; Peng, Yue – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
This paper presents a comparative analysis investigating how cultural values are represented in two sets of widely used Chinese as a second language (CSL) textbooks published in mainland China (New Practical Chinese Reader, NPCR) and the US (Integrated Chinese, IC) respectively. Using an integrated critical social semiotic approach, we examined…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Erstad, Ola; Miño, Raquel; Rivera-Vargas, Pablo – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2021
The current social and educational challenges force us to rethink the role of educational institutions and digital technologies in the 21st century, which requires a deeper understanding of learning activities in schools. In this article we analyze bottom-up initiatives for educational transformation implemented in public lower secondary schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Practices, Educational Change
Avvisati, Francesco; Givord, Pauline – OECD Publishing, 2021
This paper quantifies the learning gain that accrues to 15-year-old students over one year of schooling in 18 countries and economies, where the cohort eligible to sit the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)ISA test overlaps with two distinct school cohorts. School-entry regulations are used as an exogenous source of…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Foreign Countries
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Lubienski, Christopher; Perry, Laura B.; Kim, Jina; Canbolat, Yusuf – Comparative Education, 2022
In recent decades, policymakers around the globe have adopted market mechanisms such as consumer-style choice, provider autonomy and competition. Such policies may improve educational equity since families can choose options outside of their assigned local school. Yet research from multiple countries is finding a link between greater use of such…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Consumer Economics, Competition, Educational Policy
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Holmén, Janne – Comparative Education, 2022
Due to their common history, Finland and Sweden share many similarities. However, important differences have also developed in constitutional law, political culture and governance models. These differences have affected the implementation of international trends in the governance of higher education in the two countries. Both the Finnish and…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Cross Cultural Studies, Government School Relationship, Administrative Organization
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Wan, Dongsheng; Lee, Yew-Jin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
Canonical coherence occurs when subject matter in school is organized to align with the logical structures of an academic discipline. Even though it is highly desired, this condition is an assumption that must be empirically tested, which was the rationale behind our examination of the coherence of topics from middle-school (grades 7-9) integrated…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Middle School Students
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Dominguez-Gil, C.; Segovia-Gonzalez, M. M.; Contreras, I. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
In the evaluation of any political strategy, it is essential to carry out the collection and analysis of the available data. The presentation of a complex phenomenon by means of synthetic measures can improve both the political actors' understanding of the situation and the design of new measures. In this paper, we deal with the problem of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Evaluation Methods, Educational Indicators, Foreign Countries
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Diamond, Alex – Teaching History, 2022
Convinced of the value of a good textbook as a teaching and learning resource, Alex Diamond set out to understand teachers' thinking about Holocaust textbooks and what it would be for a textbook to represent Holocaust history adequately. As Diamond's discussion shows, this is a multi-faceted issue. Evaluating textbook representation involves…
Descriptors: Death, Jews, European History, History Instruction
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Seno-Alday, Sandra; Budde-Sung, Amanda – Journal of International Education in Business, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the impact of differences in educational traditions on conventions of teaching and learning, and on the measurement of learning outcomes. These are critical issues within the context of business schools that are steeped in one dominant tradition but have a large population of international students previously…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Cultural Differences, Social Bias, Academic Achievement
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Smagorinsky, Peter – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2022
This essay compares and contrasts the educational movements of three nations--the United States, Mexico, and the Soviet Union--established according to Eurocentric cultural values. In each country, mass education was undertaken to help produce an assimilative national culture during formative periods characterized by instability. In two of these…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Comparative Education, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
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Rogers, Lynne; Spours, Ken – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
This historical and contemporary assessment of 14-19 attainment and post-16 participation suggests that for the first time in a generation, overall levels of attainment in the English upper secondary (14-19) phase are plateauing. Time-series data has been compiled to present four phases of attainment and participation development since the late…
Descriptors: Educational History, Secondary Education, Accountability, Educational Change
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