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Natalia Wright, Editor – English Language Education, 2025
This volume focuses on glocalization in English language teaching and learning, examining the challenges of its implementation. It describes the innovative practices of multilingual TESOL practitioners from various parts of the world, offering nuanced perspectives on how to glocalize teaching methods, curricula, materials, and teacher preparation.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Sklad, M.; Friedman, J.; Park, E.; Oomen, B. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
Over the past decades, more and more institutions of higher learning have developed programs destined to educate students for global citizenship. Such efforts pose considerable challenges: conceptually, pedagogically and from the perspective of impact assessment. Conceptually, it is of utmost importance to pay attention to both structural…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Transformative Learning
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Tabulawa, Richard – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
Using a global-local dialectic approach, this paper traces the rise of the basic education programme in the 1980s and 1990s in Botswana and its subsequent attenuation in the 2000s. Amongst the local forces that led to the rise of BEP were Botswana's political project of nation-building; the country's dire human resources situation in the decades…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Climate, Human Resources, Youth Employment
Hartmann, Jurgen – Youth Studies Bulletin, 1985
This article describes the role of the Swedish Educational System (SES). It focuses on the interplay between the political decisions building the SES from the 1930s to 1970s and the socioeconomic development, especially the changes in the labor market. (CT)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Local Issues
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Fasoli, Lyn; James, Ranu – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
This article identifies problems, issues and insights through critical reflection on the rules, written and unwritten, which encroach on the research process in the "Both Ways" project. The project investigates the development and sustainability of remote Aboriginal children's services in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Geographic Isolation, Child Care Centers
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Timmons, Vianne; Critchley, Kim; Campbell, Barbara Ruth; McAuley, Alexander; Taylor, Jennifer P.; Walton, Fiona – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2007
Introduction: Knowledge translation implies the exchange and synthesis of knowledge between researchers and research users, employing a high level of communication and participation, not only to share the knowledge found through research, but also to implement subsequent strategies. Prince Edward Island, a rural province in Canada, provided the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Community Involvement, Case Studies