NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Transnationalism and the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rizvi, Fazal; Savage, Glenn C.; Quay, John; Acquaro, Daniela; Sallis, Richard J. T.; Sobhani, Nima – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2020
This article examines the ways in which the International Baccalaureate's Learner Profile is interpreted and enacted in three different national settings. Using the data collected from a comparative study of the Learner Profile in nine International Baccalaureate schools in India, Hong Kong, and Australia, the article problematizes the widely held…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advanced Placement Programs, Student Characteristics, Profiles
Interpreting and Implementing the IB Learner Profile in an Internationalised School in China: A Shift of Focus from the "Profile as Text" to the "Lived Profile"
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Poole, Adam – Journal of Research in International Education, 2017
This article presents findings from a case study that explored the way Sophie, an expatriate International Baccalaureate Diploma art teacher in an internationalised school in Shanghai, China, interpreted and implemented the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile. The findings challenge the view that the Profile exerts a regulatory force on…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Case Studies, Art Teachers, Profiles
Development and Validation of the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile Questionnaire (IBLPQ)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Walker, Allan; Lee, Moosung; Bryant, Darren A. – Educational Psychology, 2016
The Learner Profile (LP) frames International Baccalaureate (IB) learning outcomes across the three programme levels and, as such, plays a key role in measuring the success of the rapidly growing number of IB schools in the Asia-Pacific Region. Our aim was to develop an instrument to measure the IBLP and validate the instrument through a series of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Advanced Placement Programs, Profiles, Advanced Students
How Do School Principals in Hong Kong Shape Policy?
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bryant, Darren A.; Ko, James; Walker, Allan – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
This article draws on data from cases of high-performing and improving schools in Hong Kong. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with principals, middle leaders, and senior teachers to identify key policies and steps taken for their enactment, and to solicit interpretations of the policies. Principals were found to actively select,…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
A Review of the Linkage between Student Participation in the International Baccalaureate Continuum and Student Learning Attributes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bryant, Darren A.; Walker, Allan; Lee, Moosung – Journal of Research in International Education, 2016
Given the rapid growth in the number of students completing the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme and the potential for students to be educated entirely through IB programmes, it is important to understand associations between programme participation and cognitive and non-cognitive learning attributes. Through a mixed methods…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Advanced Placement Programs, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and the Construction of Pedagogic Identity: A Preliminary Study
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cambridge, James – Journal of Research in International Education, 2010
Bernstein (1999, 2000) proposes that contrasting educational discourses construct contrasting retrospective, prospective, decentred (market) and decentred (therapeutic) pedagogic identities. In different times and geographical locations the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) has been projected onto a variety of pedagogic…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Foreign Countries, Geographic Location, Teacher Attitudes