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Rising Expectations in Brazil and Chile
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Elacqua, Gregory; Alves, Fatima – Education Next, 2014
Two themes connect Brazil and Chile: one is economic success; the other is social unrest. Protests rocked cities across Brazil in June 2013, and in Chile, recent student protests turned violent. Yet living conditions in both nations are better now than they've ever been. Successful economic and social reforms over the last two decades have led to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Public Opinion, Middle Class
What's in a Name? That Which We Call a Crisis? A Commentary on Michael Young's Article "Overcoming the Crisis in Curriculum Theory"
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Lundgren, Ulf P. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
Michael Young's article "Overcoming the crisis in curriculum theory: a knowledge-based approach" ("JCS, 45", 2) is discussed from the starting point that the claimed crisis is constructed from a decisive solution, that is the solution determines what is a crisis. But curriculum research and curriculum theory are in need of…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Research
The Hard Work of Interpretation: The National Politics of PISA Reception in Hungary and Romania
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Neumann, Eszter; Kiss, Adel; Fejes, Ildiko – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
This article discusses the dynamic interaction between global policy and knowledge flows and two post-communist education systems--Hungary and Romania--with special attention to the appropriation of post-bureaucratic regulation tools and the structural changes enhanced by the knowledge transmitted by the Programme for International Student…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Global Approach