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Franken, Leni – Journal of Religious Education, 2019
In 2018, the Québec Ethics and Religious Culture program celebrated its 10th anniversary. The launching of this program in schools in 2008 can be seen as the final step in a profound reorganization and a related deconfessionalization of the Québec educational system, a shift considered necessary to adapt school curricula to the present Québec…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Cultural Differences, Educational Policy
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Bethell, George; Zabulionis, Algirdas – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2012
Since the break up of the USSR, its former republics have seen the emergence and rapid expansion of an examinations industry that was, to all intents and purposes, unknown in Soviet times. New national assessment agencies have been established and been charged with, amongst other things, developing high-stakes exams to replace the diverse and…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Educational Development
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Nguyen, Phuong-Mai; Elliott, Julian G.; Terlouw, Cees; Pilot, Albert – Comparative Education, 2009
This article is concerned with the influence of western educational approaches in non-western countries and societies. This influence is frequently referred to as educational neocolonialism in the sense that western paradigms tend to shape and influence educational systems and thinking elsewhere through the process of globalisation. Given the…
Descriptors: World Views, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences, Cultural Context