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Direct linkGriffiths, Tom G. – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a significant marker in global efforts to universalise a conception of ecologically sustainable human development. SDG 4's expanded vision of quality education for all extends to the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Agenda's call for education that contributes to all of SDGs,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Social Change, Sustainable Development, Human Capital
Griffiths, Tom G. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
This paper both draws on, and seeks to apply, world-systems analysis to a broad, critical education project that builds mass schooling's potential contribution to the process of world-systemic change. In short, this is done by first setting out the world-systems analysis account of the current state, and period of transition, of the capitalist…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Social Change, Social Systems, Curriculum Development
Griffiths, Tom G.; Arnove, Robert F. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2015
World culture theory (WCT) offers an explanatory framework for macro-level comparative analyses of systems of mass education, including their structures, accompanying policies and their curricular and pedagogical practices. WCT has contributed to broader efforts to overcome methodological nationalism in comparative research. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Theories, Guidelines, Comparative Analysis
Griffiths, Tom G.; Charon Cardona, Euridice – European Education, 2015
International education is seen as an effective form of soft power. This article reviews one of history's largest and most ambitious attempts to achieve global influence through university education, and to reshape the world--the Soviet university aid program, 1956-91. Drawing on existing research and Soviet archival materials, we lay out and…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Systems, Educational History, International Education
Griffiths, Tom G. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
The global dominance of neoliberal policy prescriptions in recent decades has been well documented, with particular implications for educational systems. These include reduced public expenditure and provision, the promotion of individual (parental) choice, competition, increased user-pays and the privatisation of education. Against this…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes, Public Education
Griffiths, Tom G.; Williams, Jo – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
In contemporary contexts of Education for All and emphases on national educational performance, mass education globally continues to be strongly informed by human capital thinking, and by notions of developing future world citizens and workers for the international economy. In this paper, our central focus is on the ongoing educational project of…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
