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Mathew Barnard – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This paper aims to make a conceptual contribution to the role of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) in regard to global education within state global heritage (multicultural) schools -- using England as a representative example -- in an age characterised by epistemological, historical and cultural securitisation. This paper…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Democratic Values, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
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Tarc, Paul – Policy Futures in Education, 2019
The internationalization of education (IE) has accelerated across the past two decades. Although there are now a range of representations and theorizations of IE, they find little connection across domains and levels. Toward bolstering a more coherent field of IE, which translates across distinctive expressions of IE, this paper argues for a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Semantics, Barriers
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Tarc, Paul – Educational Review, 2022
In 2018, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) added to their PISA regime the assessment of "global competence". Given this novel, data-driven approach to governing the internationalisation of K-12 education, this study compares this recent intervention to a longer-standing mode of governing for the pedagogical…
Descriptors: Governance, International Schools, Comparative Analysis, Advanced Placement Programs
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Hill, Ian; Saxton, Susan – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2014
The aim of this article is to present the International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme and briefly outline its core components, followed by a review of what authoritative reports identify as skills for the future, esteemed by universities and the job market. There is a striking match between these skills and IB outcomes; thus, DP graduates perform…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Access to Education, Higher Education, Global Approach
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Wells, John – Journal of Research in International Education, 2011
This article provides a critical review of the way that the International Baccalaureate (IB) promotes international education and international mindedness through the IB Learner Profile. While discussing theories of values and attitudes, and the teaching of values and theories of value acquisition, the paucity of such topics in IB texts is noted.…
Descriptors: International Education, Advanced Placement Programs, Criticism, Profiles
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van Oord, Lodewijk – Journal of Peace Education, 2008
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma programme, an internationally recognised pre-university curriculum, is currently offered by approximately 1500 schools in 120 countries. This article will analyse various dimensions of peace education in the IB Diploma programme, with particular reference to its peace and conflict studies course. This…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, International Education, Peace, Civil Rights
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van Oord, Lodewijk – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2007
The International Baccalaureate was developed in the late 1960s with the purpose of providing international schools with a pre-university curriculum recognized by universities around the world. The educational programmes offered by the International Baccalaureate Organization claim to foster international understanding and an appreciation of the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Philosophy, International Schools, International Education