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This handbook focuses on and compares the education systems in the three Americas: North, Central and South America, and includes a chapter on most countries in the region. The chapters follow a common structure and include schematic diagrams of the structure of mainstream education from pre-primary to tertiary level. Each chapter starts with a description of the historical and social foundations of the education system from the post-World War II period up to today, including political, economic and cultural contexts and conditions. By highlighting important dates and structural decisions, the current education system can be understood as resulting from past developments. The first part ends with a description of the transitions to the labour market that are offered, and the way in which these are organized in the education system described. The second part consists of an overview of the institutional and organizational principles as well as the structure of education from pre-primary to tertiary level. It includes a focus on legislative bases and financial provisions for the education system and a description of the structure by using the ISCED-classification. It further includes information of the supply of human resources such as teachers and other educators. The third and final part of the handbook discusses selected educational trends and aspects. In this context, three topics are of particular interest: dealing with inequality, ICT and digitization activities, and STEM-related policies and programmes.

Sociology of education --- History of education and educational sciences --- Didactic evaluation --- School management --- Educational sciences --- vergelijkende pedagogiek --- onderwijspolitiek --- assessments (onderwijs) --- onderwijs

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This book discusses the central role education and research play in generating both value and comparative advantages in the (imageries of) global competition, competitiveness and transnational value chains. They are seen as assets placed at the forefront of developments that are arguably reshaping individuals, society and economy. This edited volume explores these developments in terms of changing relations between society, economy, science and individuals. The idea that we live in global knowledge societies and knowledge-based economies or that present-day productive systems constitute an industry 4.0 have gained currency as descriptions of contemporary society that are said to bear direct and indirect consequences for political, economic, and social orders. In this context, innovation, science and education are central themes in contemporary discussions about the future of modern societies. Innovation is enthusiastically embraced as the panacea for all sorts of societal issues of our times; science is equally deemed to play a decisive role in solving current problems and in heralding a bright future with more wealth and more welfare for all citizens; education is conferred the task to producing individuals equipped with both skills and competences considered key to innovation but also displaying the attitudes and dispositions that will secure continuous innovation and economic growth.

Sociology of education --- Politics --- Teaching --- Higher education --- Educational sciences --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- onderwijspolitiek --- onderwijs --- politiek --- onderwijssociologie --- opvoeding

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This book examines how the Global Education Industry (GEI) has brokered, funded, and implemented new conceptualizations of ‘good’ education. With a focus on new private providers and policy actors in education, the authors of the book analyze the impact of the GEI on educational research, policy and practice. How did philanthropies and foundations manage to make their voices heard in school reform debates, what are the implication of digital technologies and data infrastructures on teaching and learning, and should the fast advance of the GEI be merely seen as a logical consequence of the commercialization of education? Moving beyond single-country case studies, the book focuses on key issues related to the study of the Global Education Industry in an international context, discussing the rationales, processes and impacts of current developments. This comprehensive book will be of interest and value to scholars and researchers of the GEI, as well as policy makers.

International education. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Educational policy. --- Education and state. --- International education . --- Comparative education. --- Education, Comparative --- Education --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- History --- Government policy

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This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their opportunities in education and labour. Considering the relevance of LLP in shaping those opportunities, the chapters draw from multi-level, mixed-methods research and offer original insights on the interplay of discourses and governance patterns in the processes of policy-making and deliverance. The book yields noteworthy insights into the widely differing realities across the European landscape, and also into the diverging ways young people deal with and actively participate in LLP.

Education --- Central government policies --- Educational strategies & policy --- young adults --- lifelong learning policy --- comparative education --- opportunity structure --- european adult education --- education policy --- Horizon 2020 --- Política educativa --- Educació permanent --- Aprenentatge permanent --- Educació contínua --- Educació continuada --- Educació recurrent --- Formació contínua --- Formació continuada --- Formació permanent --- Formació recurrent --- Reciclatge (Educació) --- Educació --- Formació --- Ensenyament nocturn --- Educació d'adults --- Formació del personal --- Formació ocupacional --- Educació i Estat --- Política social --- Beques --- Comunitat i escola --- Dret a l'educació --- Administració escolar --- Economia de l'educació --- Escola única --- Legislació educativa --- Política de la joventut

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Teaching --- Educational sciences --- onderwijspolitiek --- onderwijsonderzoek