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In our current political climate of assessment and accountability initiatives we are failing to prepare our children for a participatory role in the creative economy. The field of education is increasingly falling prey to didactic methodologies which train a nation of competent test takers, foregoing the opportunity to educate students to find problems and develop multiple solutions. No where is this more evident than in the area of art education. Due to a myriad of issues including budgetary shortfalls, time constraints and a general misconception that anyone who enjoys the arts is capable of teaching the arts, our students are not developing the skills they require to become fully literate in critical thinking and creative processing. Although art integrated curriculum is increasingly being viewed as a reform strategy for motivating students by offering alternative presentation of concepts and representation of knowledge acquisition, misinformed administrators are often excluding the art teacher from the integration equation. The paper to follow addresses the problem of the need for divergent thinking and conceptualization in our schools. Furthermore, this paper explores the role of education, and specifically, art education in the development of a creatively literate citizenry.

This study is analyzes the discourse of early childhood education and the role of pedagogy in fashioning modern mothers. This case of this study is Mother-Child Education Foundation (MCEF). It analyzes the imaginary of MCEF, which opens up a "space of intervention" and is articulated through discourses of the normal development of children and modernizing motherhood. The analyses of this study consist of two parts. In the first part, the official social imaginary of MCEF as civil society organization is interpreted. In the process of interpretation I problematized the projects and techniques deployed in MCEF programs via using analytical tools provided by governmentality studies. Second part of the analyses is concerned with MCEF's Mother Child Education Program (MOCEP) as a mechanism to fashion modern mother.

ABSTRACT Imitation plays a crucial role in apprenticeship in the Afro‐Brazilian performance genre capoeira, as in many skills across cultures. In this article, I examine the interactional dynamics of imitative pedagogy in capoeira to better understand physical education as a form of bodily enculturation. The ability to learn through imitation is widely considered a hallmark of our species. Imitative ability, however, is a social accomplishment rather than a capacity of the learner in isolation. Human models often provide assistance to novices seeking to imitate, including a variety of forms of what educational theorists call "scaffolding," which are astutely structured to a novice's ability, perceptions, and even neurology. Scaffolding techniques vary. I here examine how instructors reduce students' degrees of movement freedom, reorient their model in perceptual space, and parse complex sequences into component gestures. Close analysis of pedagogical interaction highlights the divergence between forms of instruction and practical skills being taught.

TAPE RECORDINGS PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR THIS ARTICLE IN WHICH SPOKESMEN OF SEVERAL SCHOOLS EXPLAIN HOW THERE HAS BEEN A CONSCIOUS EFFORT IN CHINESE EDUCATION TO DEVELOPE AND STRENGTHEN THE "SOCIALIST NEW THINGS" WHICH HAVE EMERGED OR FURTHER DEVELOPED SINCE THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN THE CONTINUING STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE BOURGEOIS WORLD OUTLOOK AND THE PROLETARIAN WORLD OUTLOOK.

Nationale Bildungssysteme sind höchst unterschiedlich konstruiert. Die Verfasser stellen zunächst die Schulsysteme dreier EU-Staaten vor ( Deutschland, Dänemark, Luxemburg), wobei sowohl allgemein- als auch berufsbildendes Schulwesen berücksichtigt werden. Sie geben dann einen Überblick über vorliegende Instrumente, die in der vergleichenden Bildungsforschung zur Bestimmung des höchsten erreichten Bildungsniveaus angewandt werden (Anzahl der Schuljahre, International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), CASMIN Educational Classification, Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik Educational Classification) und zeigen, welche Fehlermöglichkeiten sich bei der Verwendung dieser Instrumente eröffnen. Als Alternative wird eine Matrix mit zehn Kategorien entwickelt, die Bildungsabschlüsse des allgemein- und des berufsbildenden Schulwesens umfasst und den internationalen Vergleich des "höchsten erreichten Bildungsabschlusses" erlaubt: die Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik/Warner-Matrix of Education. (ICE)

As the target year of achieving Education for all (EFA) development goals approached in 2015, there were growing discussions about the post-EFA agenda in the international community of educational development. Regardless of the magnitude of discourse, this transition from EFA should not be understood simply as a normative framework.It has coincided with fundamental changes in structure, actors, modes of interactions, and practices. The emergence of new types of donors who used to be recipients of aid is changing the landscape of international educational development. Being outside of the self-regulating community of traditional donors, they bring different logics and motivations to this field that often go beyond the frame of meaning making among traditional donors. Further, the networks of civil society actors are increasing their influence on the strategies and principles of international educational development, through their global web of mission-driven and expertise-based advocacy.

The demand for higher education has increased worldwide and the response has been an impressive expansion of educational offerings both within and across countries. The purpose of this manuscript is to emphasize the necessity of common educational standards for nurses in a globalized world. Common standards are crucial in regulated professions, such as nursing, in which lives depend on the possession of specific competencies. This article defines and describes globalization and the internationalization of education, including nursing education, discusses the exporting of nursing education, identifies the challenges and current solutions related to nurse migration, and presents current standards and future trends in harmonizing nursing education internationally.

Since Independence, the education, particularly the higher education in India has undergone a uniquetransformation from elitist to egalitarian group. There has been the expansion of higher educationfacilities in India since independence. We can see the expansion of higher education with increasingspeed day by day in the context of globalization, liberalization and privatization. But a big question infront of us is whether the quality is ensured or not. It is saddening to note that 128 universities who gotthemselves accredited by the NAAC only 32 per cent could get 'A' or above level of rating whileanother 52 per cent of them could manage with 'B' or above grade. The remaining 16 per cent fall ingrade 'C' or above. NAAC assessment further indicates that 68% of colleges are rated as 'B' whileanother 23% colleges is rated as 'C' grade; and only the remaining 9% are 'A' grade. Thus the qualityassurance in higher education is the need of the hour.

Chapter 1. Learning and Memory in Modern Cognitive Psychology and Integrative Biology -- Chapter 2. Modern Cognitive Psychology and Learning and Memory Processes -- Chapter 3. Modern Integrative Biology and Learning and Memory Processes -- Chapter 4. Connections Between Studies of Human Learning and Memory Processes in Modern Cognitive Psychology and Integrative Biology -- Chapter 5. Contributions of Modern Cognitive Psychology and Integrative Biology to Educational Theories and Practices -- Chapter 6. Placing Human Learning and Memory in a Broad Context -- Chapter 7. A Broad View of Information Processing Systems -- Chapter 8. Universal Information Processing Systems and System-wide Learning and Memory -- Chapter 9. The Universal Information Processing System and Educational Theories and Practices -- Chapter 10. Universal Information Processing Systems, Generalised Educational Principles and Generalised Cognitive Processes.

An increasing number of educational policies, academic studies, and university courses today propagate 'interculturality' as a method for approaching 'the Other' and reconciling universal values and cultural specificities. Based on a thorough discussion of Europe's colonial past and the hierarchies of knowledge that colonialism established, this dissertation interrogates the definitions of intercultural knowledge put forth by EU policy discourse, academic textbooks on interculturality, and students who have completed a university course on the subject. Taking a decolonial approach that makes its central concern the ways in which differences are formed and sustained through references to cultural identities, this study shows that interculturality, as defined in these texts, runs the risk of affirming a singular European outlook on the world, and of elevating this outlook into a universal law. Contrary to its selfproclaimed goal of learning from the Other, interculturality may in fact contribute to the repression of the Other by silencing those who are already muted. The dissertation suggests an alternative definition of interculturality, which is not framed in terms of cultural differences but in terms of colonial difference. This argument is substantiated by an analysis of the Latin American concept of interculturalidad, which derives from the struggles for public and political recognition among indigenous social movements in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. By bringing interculturalidad into the picture, with its roots in the particular and with strong reverberations of the historical experience of colonialism, this study explores the possibility of decentring the discourse of interculturality and its Eurocentric outlook. In this way, the dissertation argues that an emancipation from colonial legacies requires that we start seeing interculturality as inter-epistemic rather than simply inter-cultural. ; Fokus för denna avhandling är spridningen av begreppet interkulturalitet inom utbildning. Utbildningspolicy, akademisk litteratur och mängden kurser i högre utbildning ägnade åt begreppet vittnar alla om dess betydelse i försöken att förena det kulturellt partikulära med det universella. Med Europas koloniala förflutna i åtanke och dess skapande av hierarkier mellan vad som definieras som kunskap, ämnar denna avhandling undersöka vilka kunskaper som krävs för att bli interkulturell. Syftet är framför allt att besvara frågan vad som händer med interkulturalitet om kulturella skillnader istället förstås som koloniala skillnader. Utifrån ett dekolonialt perspektiv som fokuserar på hur skillnader skapas och upprätthålls utifrån föreställningar om kulturella identiteter, analyseras EU-policy, akademisk litteratur samt intervjuer med studenter som avklarat en kurs i interkulturalitet. Analysen visar på hur interkulturalitet, i dess nuvarande tappning, riskerar fastna i en singulär europeisk utblick på världen upphöjd till universell lag. Snarare än att mildra eller förändra maktrelationer och skapa möjligheter till mellanmänskliga möten, riskerar därför interkulturaliteten att bidra till fortsatt förtryck av den som anses kulturellt annorlunda. En alternativ utgångspunkt står att finna i en annan översättning av interkulturalitet – interculturalidad – hämtad från ursprungsbefolkningarnas kamp för att bli synliggjorda, att dela makten, på den offentliga arenan i Bolivia, Ecuador och Peru. Genom att lyfta fram begreppet interculturalidad, som just har sitt ursprung i singulariteten och bär med sig själva erfarenheten av kolonialism, tillförs en möjlig distansering från interkulturalitet med dess implicita eurocentrism. Avslutningsvis argumenteras för att befrielse från kolonialismens ok kräver att interkulturalitet omkodas som inter-epistemisk.

Over the past ten years, internationalization of higher education has become a priority in Kazakhstan's educational policy. The importance of internationalization is reflected by the increasing exchange of students and scientists, the emergence of many international programmes and collaboration of universities, increased funding for students and research projects. This work deals with the internationalization of higher education, therefore, begins with the concept of this phenomenon, explained the role of internationalization of higher education in Kazakhstan, and also discussed the changes occurring in the education system of Kazakhstan and its current state. The accession of Kazakhstan to the Bologna process, as well studied Kazakhstan's efforts for internationalization of higher education.