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Zhao, Kang; Wang, Jingjie – History of Education, 2023
From the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, the development of the history of education in China can be divided into four stages: a budding period, one of tortuous development, a recovery stage and finally one of stable growth influenced by various ideas and themes from other countries. Abundant academic areas and topics as well as…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Intellectual Disciplines
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Anne Johnson, Editor; Susana Rodriguez, Editor; Robin Schoen, Editor; Committee on Building Impactful Collaborative Platforms in the Land-Grant System, Contributor; Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Contributor; Division on Earth and Life Studies, Contributor; Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Contributor; Policy and Global Affairs, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2025
The public colleges and universities established in 1862, 1890, and 1994 as part of the land-grant system have historically played an important role in bringing the assets of institutions of higher education to bear on the public good. This report describes how the land-grant institutions can increase their collective impact for the public good by…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Land Grant Universities, Educational Development, Capacity Building
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Rajovic, Goran; Bratanovskii, Sergei N.; Vazerova, Alla G.; Trailovic, Milica – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
The article describes the secondary education system in Serbia from 1808 to the 1870s. It focuses on the secondary education development, and the difficulties that were arising during the organization of the educational process. Scientific and reference literature on the research topic were used as materials. The methodology used a set of…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Bozkurt, Aras – Distance Education, 2019
Distance education (DE) is a constantly evolving and advancing field, and as such, its intellectual network and dynamics need to be investigated and explored. In this regard, this study reviewed a total of 1685 articles and 51,940 references through social network analysis for a bibliometric examination of the DE field. The findings indicate that…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Open Education, Bibliometrics, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Martinache, Igor – Journal of Social Science Education, 2018
Purpose: This article aims at presenting the original design of the teaching of Economic and Social Sciences (SES) in the French High School and at demonstrating that the issue of pluralism lies at the core of the various controversies surrounding it since its creation. Approach: This article is based on more than 40 interviews with SES teachers…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Social Sciences, Cultural Pluralism, High Schools
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Kisby, Ben – Journal of Social Science Education, 2017
Purpose: This article explores linkages and disjunctions between citizenship education and character education in England. Approach: The article undertakes a theoretical discussion of what both forms of education are and involve, and a historical overview of their development over the past twenty years, utilising a wide range of primary and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Values Education, Educational History
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Haavelsrud, Magnus – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2015
Epistemological preferences in Western academies over the centuries became the measuring rod for what is to count as valid knowledge in thinking about development. The genealogy of the sciences of law and economics can be traced back to the Roman and British empires. The problem is posed in this paper as to the question of how remnants of these…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Preferences, Educational Development, Educational History
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Strimel, Greg; Grubbs, Michael E. – Journal of Technology Education, 2016
As the presence of engineering content and practices increases in science education, the distinction between the two fields of science and technology education becomes even more vague than previously theorized. Furthermore, the addition of engineering to the title of the profession raises the question of the true aim of technology education. As a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Technology Integration, Engineering Education, Technology Education
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Newell, William H. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2013
This chronological overview of the development of interdisciplinary theory starts with the pre-cursors of theory: the development and elaboration of the definition of interdisciplinary studies, influential but problematic images of interdisciplinary studies proposed by Donald Campbell and Erich Jantsch, and best practices in interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Theories, Educational Development, Definitions
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Scammacca, Nancy K.; Roberts, Garrett J.; Cho, Eunsoo; Williams, Kelly J.; Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon R.; Carroll, Megan – Review of Educational Research, 2016
The history of research on interventions for struggling readers in Grades 4 through 12 dates back to 19th-century case studies of seemingly intelligent children who were unable to learn to read. Physicians, psychologists, educators, and others were determined to help them. In the process, they launched a century of research on a wide variety of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Programs, Intervention, Annual Reports
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Ives, Bob; Badescu, Gabriel – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
Romanian scholars, and others, have decried the quality and quantity of scholarly productivity from Romania. However, Romanian scholars face challenges of both tradition and resources as they try to westernize their higher education system. We analyzed data from two sources to compare Romanian scholarly productivity to that of other countries from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Productivity, Scholarship, Educational History
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Percy, Alisa – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This paper argues for the re-integration of academic development (AD) and a academic language and learning (ALL) practitioners in Australian higher education. This argument is made as universities aim to develop internationally recognised, inter-disciplinary and standards-based curricula against the backdrop of international comparative education…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
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McGrath, Simon – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
At the end of the 30th volume of IJED and in the year that the journal published its 1000th paper, it is appropriate to look back at the journal's development. In doing so, this article will discuss a series of important issues regarding the future of the field of international education and development and how it engages with development studies.…
Descriptors: International Education, Periodicals, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational History
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Biesta, Gert – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2011
In the English-speaking world educational research is often conceived as the interdisciplinary study of educational processes and practices. Hence research in education strongly relies on theoretical input from a range of different academic disciplines. What is virtually absent in this construction of the field is the idea of education as an…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Intellectual Disciplines, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
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Williams, Gareth – London Review of Education, 2010
Higher education is a field of study. It does not have an integral cognate discipline that defines its extent and borders. Contributions to understanding higher education come from, among others, sociologists, historians, political theorists, economists and students of science policy and cultural studies. These were the disciplines whose exponents…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intellectual History, Scholarship, Educational Development
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