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Since 1900, comparative studies of education have progressed from copying "advanced" nations' systems for the elite, to considering cultural contexts, social inclusiveness, and wider cultivation of competencies. Computer...
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Discusses the "qualifications" required of young people to enter the adult world, and the role of education as gatekeeper. Suggests that rapid technological advances and accompanying worldwide social changes will force e...
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States comparative education is a significant academic activity, noting that wide lists of periodicals on comparative education are published in multiple languages. Protests narrowing and defining the field too conservat...
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Considers the inclusiveness of Japanese commitment to education and the intensively educative society's influence on schools. Notes global interest in Japan's self-appraisal of education, pointing out that it will shed l...
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Chinese history is outlined, modern developments briefly described and compared to events in Japan, and the development of the formal education system covered. Universalized educational opportunity and hierarchies in the...
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There has long been a connection, it is suggested, between formal education and the technologies of production, distribution, and communication. There should be nothing alarming in recognizing a technological/educational...
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The author introduces and synthesizes the papers in this theme issue on world education in the 1980s, highlighting the contrast between today's pessimism and the optimism of earlier decades. He cites the need for more co...
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Provides some insights into the problem's of post-compulsory education and its meaning for comparative education. (Editor/RK)...
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Reviews ten western European publications (1971-74) on the education for those who stay in full-time education beyond the age of compulsion. Focus is on the upper-secondary school and lower-tertiary (college-type) system...