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Silova, Iveta – Comparative Education, 2019
The publication of Noah & Eckstein's "Toward a Science of Comparative Education" (1969, Macmillan, NY) marked the beginning of an increasingly narrow research trajectory in comparative education, claiming a universality for Western knowledge and privileging scientific rationality in research. Juxtaposing the 'science' to Lewis…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, World Views, Religious Factors, Epistemology
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Yakisik, Burçak Yilmaz; Fisne, Fatima Nur; Eksi, Gonca Yangin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
Teacher agency is a concept that defines a teacher's commitments and capabilities of making decisions and taking actions which result in a change in the community of teaching (Husu & Toom, 2010; Pietarinen, Pyhälto & Soini, 2016). Since practicum teaching is the first place where teacher trainees enhance both theoretical and practical…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Practicums, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries
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Ubong, Bassey; Okpor, Mercy O. – Asian Journal of University Education, 2019
In some institutions of higher learning, one of the approaches to successful governance is through student assessment of teachers, dubbed Student Assessment of Faculty or Student Evaluation of Teaching and extensively used in the United States of America (USA). In schools and colleges, the usual largest bloc and primary stakeholders are the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Students, Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Mašát, Milan; Sladová, Jana – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The paper focuses on representations of Shoah and Holocaust terms in selected curriculum documents ("Framework educational program for basic education" and Israeli curricular documents for primary and secondary school education). Emphasis is placed on the Israeli curriculum, which can be considered exemplary in its structure due to the…
Descriptors: Jews, Death, European History, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fontana, Lorenza B. – Journal of Education Policy, 2019
Policy initiatives that seek to account for ethno-cultural differences in education and schooling have become increasingly popular over the past few decades. These include affirmative action measures and bilingual education models. The rationale for the implementation of these policies focuses on their potential to rectify historical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Inclusion
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Matinde, Elias – Education Sciences, 2019
This paper explores the potential opportunities to enhance the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial attributes of graduates in the Metallurgy and Materials Engineering curricula at two universities in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Due to the diminishing geographical constraints between Zimbabwe and South Africa, and the strong juxtaposition between…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Metallurgy, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
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Ayala-Rodríguez, Nelly; Barreto, Idaly; Rozas Ossandón, Germán; Castro, Alejandra; Moreno, Sebastián – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The new paradigms of university social responsibility (USR) conceive students as key players who express their beliefs, attitudes and opinions both in the professional training process and in their willingness to serve the community in line with the agenda of USR. This research focuses on a comparative study of the social representations that…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, College Students, Student Role, Universities
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Canrinus, Esther T.; Klette, Kirsti; Hammerness, Karen; Bergem, Ole Kristian – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
The aim of this article is to explore similarities and differences in teacher candidates' perceptions of their opportunities to enact practice in university courses in five teacher education programmes, located in Norway, Finland, USA, Cuba, and Chile. Paper and pencil surveys were distributed among candidates (N = 488) to measure their perception…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs
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Nwakasi, Candidus C.; Cummins, Phyllis A.; Mehri, Nader; Zhang, Jing; Yamashita, Takashi – Grantee Submission, 2019
The high dependence on technology for economic activities in developed countries stresses the importance of lifelong learning in order to equip adult workers with the skills required to perform work related tasks, and also increase labor force participation. We use data from the 2012/2014 Program for the International Assessment of Adult…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Adult Education, Income, Foreign Countries
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C. C. Wolhuter, Editor; Alexander W. Wiseman, Editor – International Perspectives on Education and Society, 2019
The scope and breadth of the field of comparative and international education is vast. In fact, there are few, if any, limitations on theme, method, or data in the field of comparative and international education. Every context or combination of contexts are available for comparative education scholars to scrutinise. The scope of this field brings…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, International Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational History
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Ehren, Melanie C. M. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2016
This chapter introduces the fundamental principles and concepts of school inspections. School inspections will be defined and distinguished from other types of evaluation, such as quality monitoring, internal evaluations and audit. The chapter will also present examples of different inspection practices across Europe and explain how these have…
Descriptors: Inspection, Educational Quality, Institutional Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Urban, Mathias – Comparative Education, 2022
In this paper I argue for a necessary -- and possible -- paradigmatic shift in early childhood scholarship that embraces multiplicity, diversity, ambiguity, uncertainty and shared situated knowledge creation in response to a profoundly changed global context. The contours of the new paradigm are already emerging as three interconnected…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Diversity, Social Change, Developing Nations
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Cohen, Anat; Soffer, Tal; Henderson, Michael – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2022
Background: The rapid globalization along with the growing trend of openness and sharing approach enabled widespread of digital technologies all over the world. However, we can still find differences between countries in technology use and perceptions of usefulness for learning. Understanding students' use of educational technology and their…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
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Donkeng Nazo, Armel – Online Submission, 2022
This paper is a summary of my doctoral dissertation; it investigates the recent developments and reforms launched by Cameroon Higher Education policymakers to upgrade and align this sector to the needs of the country's socio-economic development and suggest strategies built from China's successful experience. This qualitative work was done in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Socioeconomic Influences, Educational Policy
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du Plessis, Hendrik Abraham; Steenkamp, Danielle – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
This research focused on the structure for teaching as a component of the education systems of South Africa and India. India and South Africa form part of the BRICS grouping, and BRICS have set out certain development goals about quality education. This qualitative interpretive study utilised relevant documents from India and South Africa that…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Quality, Educational Development, Educational Policy
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