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Educational Quality, Outcomes Assessment, And Policy Change: The Virginia Example, Steve Culver
Educational Quality, Outcomes Assessment, And Policy Change: The Virginia Example, Steve Culver
International Education
The higher education system in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States provides a case model for how discussions regarding educational quality and assessment of that quality have affected institutions’ policy decisions and implementation. Using Levin’s (1998) policy analysis framework, this essay explores how assessment of student outcomes has affected educational policy and change.
Internationalization Of Higher Education: A Case Study On College Music Teachers’ Intercultural Expertise, Johanna Lasonen
Internationalization Of Higher Education: A Case Study On College Music Teachers’ Intercultural Expertise, Johanna Lasonen
International Education
School and work organizations are operating in an increasingly global world. Meeting different people and groups is part of daily learning situations. The diversity of student and work communities can change from putting up with difference into conscious learning from dissimilarity in interaction. Intercultural education emphasizes the personal encounter of difference in another person and mutual learning. Internationalization and the effects of a global economy can be seen in the changes concerning work and the workplace as well as in the mobility of the labor force. There is a demand for intercultural competencies not only in business life, but also …
Expanding Access And Quality In Uganda: The Challenges Of Building A Plane While Flying It, Marc Cutright
Expanding Access And Quality In Uganda: The Challenges Of Building A Plane While Flying It, Marc Cutright
International Education
Uganda is among many nations in sub-Saharan Africa that are trying simultaneously to expand higher education opportunities and to enhance the quality of higher-education offerings. These are particularly challenging goals in resource-rich environments and are even more difficulty in environments of more limited resources to include funding, administrative expertise, and exhausted institutional capacity for students. This paper summarizes the challenges faced and the goals articulated by Ugandan entities, and some sample strategies for address of the challenges.
Quality In Higher Education: Systems And Lifeworlds In Collision, Jeff Aper
Quality In Higher Education: Systems And Lifeworlds In Collision, Jeff Aper
International Education
Questions abound about the quality and purpose of American higher education in the early 21st century. Solutions have tended to be framed in terms of economic production and manufacturing quality control models, and these terms increasingly characterize state and federal systems of authority over colleges and universities. As Habermas theorized, system logic, left to its own devices, will ultimately overpower, or “colonize,” the day to day meaning making culture or “lifeworld” of the campus. This colonization runs at counter purposes to the essential foundation of meaning for authentic education. A solution is proposed, suggesting that a deeper base to higher …
Know Thyself: The Importance Of Humanism In Education, Laura Zucca-Scott
Know Thyself: The Importance Of Humanism In Education, Laura Zucca-Scott
International Education
Current and past reforms have attempted to address the challenges of the educational world. There are undoubtedly reasons for concern as illiteracy and high school dropout rates are still haunting figures in the United States (Institute of Education Sciences, 2010; National Assessment of Literacy, 2010). Thus, the need for improvement in the U.S. educational system is undeniable. However, education without true appreciation for the uniqueness of each and every individual is an empty endeavor. An important lesson can be learned from international experiences and the classical tradition of humanism.
Editorial Comments, Jeff Aper
Contributors, Jeff Aper
Politics Of Language: The Struggle For Power In Schools In Mali And Burkina Faso, A’Ame Kone
Politics Of Language: The Struggle For Power In Schools In Mali And Burkina Faso, A’Ame Kone
International Education
Power can be equated to the possession of a particular language used to navigate the world. In Mali and Burkina Faso, two former colonies of France, language choice for instruction in mainstream primary schools remains a struggle between the powerful and the powerless. Fifty years after independence from France, both countries continue to recognize French as the official language and as the medium of instruction in primary schools. With low literacy rates and high dropout rates in both countries, attention must be given to the effects French language has on these two post-colonial societies. First-acquired language instruction has been shown …
Female International Scholars: “I Feel Many Times I Live Between Cracks”, Maike Ingrid Philipsen
Female International Scholars: “I Feel Many Times I Live Between Cracks”, Maike Ingrid Philipsen
International Education
Derived from a larger research project on female faculty in the United States, this paper reports findings focused on a sub-group of participants, international scholars who work in U.S. colleges and universities. Based on in-depth interviews, some of the obstacles they face are portrayed in order to enhance the understanding of an understudied population and find ways to address their specific challenges.
Ethnic And Gender Differences In Identifying Gifted Students: A Multi-Cultural Analysis, Ketty M. Sarouphim, C. June Maker
Ethnic And Gender Differences In Identifying Gifted Students: A Multi-Cultural Analysis, Ketty M. Sarouphim, C. June Maker
International Education
The purpose of this study was to examine ethnic and gender differences in using DISCOVER, a performance-based assessment, for identifying gifted students. The sample consisted of 941 students from grades K-5 belonging to six ethnicities: White Americans, African-Americans, Hispanics, Native-Americans, South Pacific/Pacific Islanders, and Arabs. The 5 X 6 MANOVA (activity x ethnicity) yielded a significant interaction, but no main effect for either activity or ethnicity was found. Plots of the interaction showed that South Pacific/Pacific Islanders scored highest on Oral Linguistic whereas White Americans scored highest in Math and Native Americans scored highest in Spatial Artistic activity. No gender …
Contributors, Barbara Thayer-Bacon
Editorial Comments, Barbara Thayer-Bacon
Editorial Comments, Barbara Thayer-Bacon
International Education
This issue of International Education considers important educational research topics in a way that draws our attention to the political and its impact on children, in terms of language issues as well as growing up in war zones.
Dip Kapoor And Steven Jordan (Eds.). (2009). Education, Participatory Action Research, And Social Change: International Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Aziz Choudry
International Education
A book review for Dip Kapoor and Steven Jordan (Eds.). (2009). Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change: International Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Rethinking Childhood Subjectivity: The Psycho-Politics Of Socialization, Private-Language Formation, And The Case Of Bosnian Youth, Adnan Selimovic
Rethinking Childhood Subjectivity: The Psycho-Politics Of Socialization, Private-Language Formation, And The Case Of Bosnian Youth, Adnan Selimovic
International Education
Under the guise of socialization, the child-subject born into the modern society is subjugated by a familial childhood trauma that appropriates the infantile psychosis caused by the incommunicability of early childhood. This appropriation, put to instrumental ends, results in a psychology of commodified object relations. In fact, there is a close relationship between the historical narrative of a culture and the trauma to which children are subjected as they become members of the social organization. The psycho-politics of the human condition are thus revealed in the realm of the progressive political discourse under which socialization occurs. This project concerns the …