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Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning across the United Kingdom: Policy, Organisation and Governance
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Hodgson, Ann, Ed.; Spours, Ken, Ed.; Waring, Martyn, Ed. – Institute of Education - London, 2011
Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning across the United Kingdom brings together the perspectives of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from across England, Wales and Scotland to produce a rich, up-to-date and highly textured source of evidence about this under-researched sector. The contributors analyse how each country's…
Descriptors: Evidence, Democracy, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
Participatory Democracy in Schools and Higher Education: Emerging Problems in the Federal Republic of Germany and Sweden
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Goldschmidt, Dietrich – Higher Education, 1976
An interpretive discussion of a cooperative enquiry by commissions set up by the Federal Republic of Germany and by Sweden to investigate the problem of democratization and participation in the educational and research systems of the two countries. Purposes, comparisons, findings, and recommendations are summarized with discussion of problems…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Democracy, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Processes of Transition in Education Systems. Oxford Studies in Comparative Education, Volume 8, Number 2.
McLeish, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Phillips, David, Ed. – 1998
This book examines the educational phases experienced by countries moving from authoritarian styles of government to various forms of liberal democracy. It focuses on Latvia, South Africa, and the former German Democratic Republic so as to identify commonalities in diverse systems. The essays employ a model that depends not on a regular linear…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Democracy
Political Relationship and Narrative Knowledge: A Critical Analysis of School Authoritarianism. Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series.
Armitage, Peter B. – 2000
This book describes the amalgamation of an English grammar school and secondary school into a comprehensive school. It employs techniques found in microsociology to discuss the background of the two schools and record the social and political practices behind the event and their relation to good educational practices. The text emphasizes a…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Change Strategies, Decision Making, Democracy
The Role and Structure of an Independent Sector in a Modern Democratic Society. An European View.
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Mason, Peter – 1993
In examining education systems in Europe, examples show that it is wiser to build slowly and carefully, preserving what is best in existing practice, and discarding what is out of mesh with the times. Using illustrations from 14 countries in western Europe, 4 factors largely determine the size and composition of the independent sector in a…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Needs
Actors in Corruption: Business Politicians in Italy.
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della Porta, Donatella – International Social Science Journal, 1996
Argues that the development of political corruption brings about important changes in the political system and in the characteristics of the political class. Describes the emergence and activities of a group of "business politicians" in Italy who have transformed political parties into socializing agencies for illicit activities. (MJP)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Civics, Conflict of Interest, Crime