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Fourth International Handbook of Globalisation, Education and Policy Research
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Joseph Zajda, Editor – Springer, 2024
This handbook provides a global synthesis of on-going research in education and policy change during the last decade. It examines discourses of globalisation from the perspectives of the global North and global South. Major theories of globalisation and education policy reforms employed in the handbook are classified into two broad categories:…
Descriptors: Global Approach, International Education, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Regulation, Globalization, and Privatization of Higher Education: The Struggle to Establish a University in Israel
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Iram, Yaacov – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
The foundations of higher education in Israel were established in the 1920's with the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1925, after numerous difficulties and opponents were overcome. Not only were the pioneers of higher education plagued by these difficulties, it appeared that they were an integral element in the history of every…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Privatization
Neo-Liberal Reforms in Israel's Education System: The Dialectics of the State
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Yonah, Yossi; Dahan, Yossi; Markovich, Dalya – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2008
This paper offers a reading of the Dovrat Report with the aim of assessing the convoluted and dialectical manifestations of the state--"the weak and the strong state"--in the era of global neo-liberalism. The Dovrat Report (Ministry Of Education 2005) includes a set of recommendations aiming to bring about structural and comprehensive…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Values, Educational Change