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Editor's Notes And Front Matter, Suzanne Majhanovich

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

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La Guerre Et Le Génocide De 1994: Impacts Et Nouveaux Espoirs Sur L'Éducation Des Jeunes Filles Au Rwanda, Donatille Mujawamariya, Susan Judith Ship

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

A travers un cadre theorique femme/genre et developpement, les auteures menent une discussion sur la sous-scolarisation des filles au Rwanda. Elles explorent ensuite comment les inegalites de genre interagissent avec des inegalites socioeconomiques et regionales pour entraver l'acces equitable et la participation des filles it l'education formelle au cours des periodes coloniale, apres l'independance et postgenocide. Dans la suite, elles montrent comment les organisations de femmes jouent, actuellement, un role crucial dans la promotion de l'empowerment des filles et l'equite de genre en education a travers la conscientisation a la problematique de genre, des programmes et activites innovateurs.

The authors …

Decolonizing Indigenons Education: Beyond Culturalism: Toward Post-Cultural Strategies, Yatta Kanu

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

As a response to the recent international calls to decolonize the education of Indigenous students and increase school success among them by including indigenous knowledge into school curricula, aspects of Aboriginall cultural knowledge/perspectives were integrated into the Social Studies curriculum in a Canadian inner city school in order to appraise the effect on academic achievement, class attendance and school retention among some Canadian Aboriginal students. Results suggest some optimism about increasing school success among these students by integrating Aboriginal perspectives. Five effective approaches to the integration of Indigenous perspectives into the school curriculum and some critical elements of instruction that …

Privatization Chinese Style: Tuition Reforms In China's Postsecondary Education, Lanlin Zhang

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Since the endorsement of a socialist market economy in 1992 in the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, self-financing and fee-charging principles have been widely adopted, and finally legitimized in China's higher education system. However, refonns in China's post secondary education, mainly privatization and tuition fee hikes, have produced some serious controversies and concerns among students, parents, and international education researchers. This article delves into the issues of post secondary education refonn in China and brings into attention problems that occur when policies are institutionalized in a centralized decentralization setting.

Depuis l'adhesion a une economie de marche socialiste …

New Immigrants' Barriers To Participation In Society And The Economy, Atlanta Sloane-Seale

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

This paper focuses on the barriers that new immigrants face, in spite of their utilization of the services provided, to their participation and integration into society and the economy in order to better understand the events, factors, and difficulties that have an impact on their economic outcomes. Qualitative methodology and a grounded theory perspective were used to develop themes and patterns from their stories. An inclusive, multidimensional framework, including institutional, structural, situational, dispositional, informational, and self-determination factors for thinking about their participation and integration into society and the knowledge economy related to employment and education has emerged from this study. …

Book Reviews

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

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Cie Journal/Revue Eci 34(1) & 34(2) Referees/Critiques

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

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Recherche Comparée Sur La Prise De Parole De Certains Élèves Du Préscolaire Au Primaire En Français Langue Maternelle En France Et Au Québec, Lizanne Lafontaine, Catherine Le Cunff

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Cette recherche franco-quebecoise vise a valider ou a corriger des situations et des demarches isolees en enseignement de l'oral qui n'ont pu faire l'objet d'une experimentation suffisamment large. Nous poursuivons l'objectif general suivant: mieux connattre les representations de certains enseignants quebecois et francais concemant l'oral et sa place dans les apprentissages comme dans la socialisation au sein de la classe quand ils mettent en place des situations innovantes du prescolaire au secondaire. Nous expliquons les differences methodologiques entre les deux pays qui nous ont quand meme permis d'etablir des convergences ainsi que des divergences importantes entre les divers ordres d'enseignement. …

Editorial Comment And Front Matter, Suzanne Majhanovich

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

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The Values Debate At The Nexus Of Transnational Perspectives On Human Rights And Citizenship Education, Yvonne Hébert, Glen Eyford, France Jutras

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Serving as introduction to the collection of papers in this issue, this paper takes up seven themes to situate each paper in the debates that characterize the field of citizenship education and to attempt to understand the linkages between values, human rights and citizenship education in a transnational era. The themes explore planetary philosophical perspectives; understand values as practice and human rights as foundational to values; set geopolitical considerations of values in postcolonial perspectives and pedagogical perspectives in transnational contexts; characterize citizenship education as a contested field; and reflect upon the relevance of transnationalism to the values debate. In a …

L’Éducation À La Citoyenneté : Une Responsabilité Désormais Explicite À L’École Québécoise D’Accord, Mais Au Nom De Quelles Valeurs ?, France Jutras

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Partant d’une analyse des visées de l’éducation à la citoyenneté dans les discours des organismes mondiaux voués à la promotion de l’éducation, de la politique éducative québécoise et des programmes d’études du primaire et du secondaire qui l’actualisent, ainsi que de la recherche sur les buts et les moyens mis à la disposition du personnel enseignant pour l’intervention en ce sens, cet article met en relief les grandes orientations de l’éducation à la citoyenneté de manière à dégager ses valeurs fondatrices. Puis, une étude empirique auprès de novices en enseignement au secondaire permet d’identifier les valeurs que ceux-ci disent vivre …

Bilingual Education In Western Canada And Chinese Language Minority Students’ Self Perceptions Of Their Citizenship And Ethnicity, Joe Zhou Wu

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Various bilingual education models can either empower or disable minority students according to their goals, structures and human relations (Akkari, 1998). This article presents the findings of a case study on a bilingual program that exists in Western Canada. It examines the structure and contents of the program, and then, based on interviews with a group of Grade 6 bilingual students, discusses their self perceptions of their citizenship, ethnic identity and multicultural thinking.

Selon leurs buts, leurs structures et leurs relation humaines, les modèles d’éducation bilingue peuvent donner plus de pouvoir ou en enlever aux élèves des minorités (Akkari, 1998). …

Conceptions Historiques Et Identitaires Des Élèves Francophones Et Anglophones De L’Ontario À L’Époque Post-11 Septembre, Stéphane Lévesque

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Cet article traite du concept de « signification » ou sens donné aux événements historiques tel qu’employé par des élèves francophones et anglophones de l’Ontario à l’époque post-11 septembre. Il met en lumière la nécessité de mieux outiller les jeunes et les enseignants dans leur utilisation du passé canadien et dans leur apprentissage de la démarche historique en classe d’histoire ou d’études sociales.

This article deals with the concept of « significance » or meaning given to historical events, as understood by Francophone and Anglophone students in Ontario in the post-September 11 period. The analysis reveals the necessity of providing …

Citizenship Education For Child Citizens, Brian Howe

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

One important reason for the inadequacy of current citizenship education is that children – defined here as all young persons under age 18 - are rarely seen and treated as citizens in their own right. To the extent that children are educated about citizenship, they typically learn about their rights and responsibilities as future adult citizens. They rarely learn that they are citizens of the present and they are rarely treated as such. This article reviews the modern meaning of citizenship and shows, in reference to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, that children indeed are citizens …

Citizenship Education In Post Modern Society, Jan Pouwels

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Dealing with citizenship education as a part of formal education, I argue that the international human rights culture and human rights education can serve as a fundamental reference for contemporary citizenship education and that conflict pedagogy is an adequate teaching strategy. I try to draw a picture of how such education can be perceived from a pedagogical and didactical point of view, making a set of recommendations to actualize this perspective on values and citizenship education.

Dans l’optique que l’éducation à la citoyenneté est une composante de l’éducation formelle, je mets en évidence que la culture internationale des droits humains …

Discounting The Political: Understanding Civic Participation As Private Practice, Ottilia Chareka, Alan Sears

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Around the world there is concern about the disengagement of citizens from participation in civic life. Emerging from that concern have been calls for new initiatives in civic education and many jurisdictions have developed and implemented new programs in the area. Much of this work has gone forward with little or no research on the prior conceptions of participation that exist among citizens. This paper reports on a study designed to map the conceptions of civic participation held by a group of recent African immigrants to Canada compared with a group of native-born Canadians. The focus here is on findings …

Biographies Of Contributors / Notices Biographiques

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

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Citoyenneté Et Valeurs Dans L’Eurafrique, Charles-Romain Mbele

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Tenter de cerner la question de la «citoyenneté et des valeurs » avec quelque complexité et profondeur dépasse le face-à-face entre l’Europe et l’Afrique. D’une part, dans une série de conférences à l’aube du 21e siècle, l’Unesco s’est demandé « Où vont les valeurs ? » D’autre part, « les liens préférentiels » entre l’Europe et l’Afrique sont désormais sous la juridiction de l’Organisation mondiale du Commerce. De ce point de vue, interroger le statut politique et civique des hommes et des femmes dans le cadre institutionnel et partenarial de l’Eurafrique, c’est en creux se demander quel sort est réservé, …

On The Intersectionality Of Transnationalism And Citizenship, Lori Wilkinson

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

Seen positively, transnationalism enriches the cultural, linguistic and religious diversity of many countries and enhances the exchange of goods and services in the increasingly globalized economy. Seen negatively, transnationalism creates disunity in terms of introducing new ethnic, linguistic and religious traditions in developed countries, and poses risks to security and national well being. This paper examines citizenship conceptions, policies and practices directed towards transnational migrants within the European Union, the United States, and Canada.

D’un point de vue positif, le transnationalisme enrichit la diversité culturelle, linguistique et religieuse de plusieurs pays et il accroît les échanges de produits et services …