Transnational Competence Frameworks and National Curriculum-Making: The Case of Sweden

• Authors : Nordin, Andreas; Sundberg, Daniel

Subjects: Competency Based Education; National Curriculum; Curriculum DevelopmentSweden

• Source: Comparative Education, v57 n1 p19-34 2021.

• Abstract: Competence-based approaches (CBAs) in education have become an internationally important educational policy concept in recent decades. However, a substantial body of research has suggested that ... As Provided

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What Kind of Citizens? Constructing 'Young Europeans' through Loud Borrowing in Curriculum Policy-Making in Kosovo

• Authors : Tahirsylaj, Armend

Subjects: Curriculum Development; Social Change; Citizen ParticipationKosovo; Europe

• Source: Comparative Education, v57 n1 p115-129 2021.

• Abstract: Kosovo introduced two major curriculum reforms over the past 20 years -- in 2001 and 2011 -- each aiming to bring education closer to international trends. Simultaneously, Kosovo ... As Provided

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Imagining Globally Competent Learners: Experts and Education Policy-Making beyond the Nation-State

• Authors : Gardinier, Meg P.

Subjects: Competency Based Education; Educational Policy; Global ApproachEuropeProgram for International Student Assessment

• Source: Comparative Education, v57 n1 p130-146 2021.

• Abstract: This paper examines competency-based educational policy-making in a global context. Specifically, it explores how the thinking around competency, spearheaded by international organisations and experts, has ... As Provided

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The Introduction of Competence-Based Education into the Compulsory School Curriculum in France (2002-2017): Hybridity and Polysemy as Conditions for Change

• Authors : Clément, Pierre

Subjects: Foreign Countries; Educational Legislation; Competency Based EducationFrance

• Source: Comparative Education, v57 n1 p35-50 2021.

• Abstract: In France, the notion of competence began to be discussed in the early 1990s and was finally enforced in the Education Act of 23 April 2005. Since ... As Provided

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Knowledge for the Elites, Competencies for the Masses: Political Theatre of Educational Reforms in the Russian Federation

• Authors : Aydarova, Elena

Subjects: Educational Change; Competency Based Education; CorrelationRussiaProgram for International Student Assessment

• Source: Comparative Education, v57 n1 p51-66 2021.

• Abstract: International organisations facilitated the spread of competency-based reforms around the world. Accepting at face value correlations between students' performance on international assessments, such as PISA, ... As Provided

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Educating for Uncertainty in a Changing World: Issues within an Australian Remote Indigenous Context.

• Authors : Torres, Pat; Arnott, Allan

Subjects: Community Control; Community Education; Competency Based EducationAustralia

• Source: Comparative Education, v35 n2 p225-34 Jun 1999.

• Abstract: In response to overseas economic competition and changing technologies, Australia's national vocational education and training system was recently restructured, with emphases on competency-based training and ...

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Changing Patterns of Educational Accountability in England and France.

• Authors : Broadfoot, Patricia

Subjects: Accountability; Comparative Analysis; Comparative EducationFrance; United Kingdom (England)

• Source: Comparative Education, v21 n3 p273-86 1985.

• Abstract: Uses France and England--because of their radically different institutional and ideological traditions in education--to illustrate common trends in educational accountability. Explains general trends affecting advanced ...

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From Policy to Practice: curriculum reform in South African education

• Authors : Cross, Michael; Mungadi, Ratshi; Rouhani, Sepi

• Source: Comparative Education. May2002, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p171-187. 17p.

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