Showing papers in "International Journal of Educational Development in 1996"

TL;DR: The link between globalisation and education has been analyzed in this article, showing that countries with good human resources, high savings and good economic policies have attracted foreign investment and technology, and have experienced fast growth in exports of manufactures and in output per capita.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the reasons for the 1995 World Bank sector review Priorities and Strategies for Education, and described the consultative process followed in its preparation, concluding that despite enormous progress, developing and transitional economies face major challenges of enrollments, equity, quality and in delaying reform.

TL;DR: In their search for global recommendations, not only education but public policy more generally become largely matters of technique and administration as discussed by the authors, and what could have been a pragmatic vision turns out to be just pragmatic and perhaps not even that.

TL;DR: A critique of the World Bank's 1995 policy review on education, especially these aspects: its assumptions about the benefits of schooling, the way it deals with basic schooling and basic skills, the short shrift that is given to publicly provided vocational education, the view of pedagogic professionalism that seems implied in the view taken of quality improvement, the assumption that it is possible to protect the poor when fees are raised, the type of decentralization that is advocated, and the reliance on rate-of-return analysis that is recommended.

TL;DR: The integration debate in South Africa reflects both equity and human resource development concerns, and is more fully developed in adult basic education and training than in formal post-compulsory education as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of contemporary trends and developments draws attention to a related volume of new work, the value of case studies of educational practice, the importance of context and the dangers of uncritical international transfer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined primary teachers' motivation and ability to adapt to major new policy initiatives using data from three case study sites in Gujarat State, and found that although the policy acknowledged teachers' centrality to educational change, the innovation arising from it failed to prepare teachers to adjust to its demands.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the current socialization approach to education in the developing countries needs to be replaced by innovative, critical approaches involving "resocialization" if basic education is to play a role in improving the lives of the masses.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is developed to estimate the incidence and determinants of age-grade distortion, the results of which are used to obtain probabilities through simulations, which suggests that any targeting activities should be directed at the poor and should have an indigenous component, such as bilingual education.

TL;DR: The authors examines two bodies of research in international education located at very different points in the educational research hierarchy, educational assessment and multigrade teaching, and identifies areas for future research on the reciprocal effects of globalisation and educational assessment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the educational financing in the People's Republic of China since 1978 and alerted educators, especially those from Eastern Europe and other former socialist countries facing similar situations, the fundamental issues these developments raise.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make observations on policy and planning against the backdrop of globalisation and make observations from the perspective of a large, high population, developing country with considerable human resources and a federal democratic polity trying to liberalise its economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of an evaluation of the National Bilingual Education Program serving approximately one-third of the indigenous primary school students in Guatemala were presented, showing that program inputs of teacher training and instructional materials have had a significant effect on student achievement and a slight positive effect on promotion, repetition and dropout rates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for a transformation of the universities of the South to include local knowledge, which would have to do with a strengthening of indigenous research based on local experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors closely scrutinised various steps initiated under the district primary education programme (DPEP) to promote decentralisation of educational planning in India and showed that the DPEP initiatives have succeeded in overcoming existing constraints on decentralisation by developing planning machinery and competency and by ensuring resource availability at the district level.

TL;DR: The authors examines the history, vision, planning and implementation of the SYSTEM programme: Students and Youth into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, and provides a case study of the policy process in the transition to democracy, with the need both for political legitimacy and planned evaluation.

TL;DR: For example, King et al. as discussed by the authors revisited Kenya from time to time over the period 1989-1995 in order to research how its informal sector had fared over the past 25 years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of alternatives to the globalization of learning, principally by advancing the claims of the individuation of understanding, in an effort to reach conclusions about whether globalization-of-learning is an accurate and valuable modern paradigm or, instead, a contradiction in terms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critical analysis of, and a practical response to, teacher education imperatives shaping the politics, policy, structure and operation of Community Teachers Colleges in Papua New Guinea today.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used hierarchical linear models (HLMs) and variance components analytical approach (Hierarchial Linear Models) to the study of school effects and found that up to 88% of the variance in achievement lies within schools, while only 12% lies between schools.

TL;DR: This paper argued that there are four related phenomena which can go under the heading of globalisation: globalisation per se (as a form of colonialism); globalism (a sharing of mental constructs); convergence (following a similar path); and mimicry (joining in hoping to gain benefits).

TL;DR: In this paper, the expansion of the Greek educational system (formal and non-formal) in the 1980s is documented and assessed and its linkages to the labour market are analyzed.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the role and purposes of adult education policy by discussing six key rationales for policy making, including constitutional prescriptions, investment in human capital, political socialization, compensatory legitimation, international pressures, and social movements.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of education in communist and post-communist Poland is presented, based upon fieldwork in schools in Lodz in 1993 compared with earlier research in such schools in 1988.

TL;DR: This article argued that, pending future scientific developments, human capital theory and estimates of the rate of return to investment in education can illuminate such allocation decisions and even lead to diametrically opposite educational policies relative to more conventional tools.