Internationalization of Education
(noun)
The increased emphasis on international cultural exchange in the course of education.
Examples of Internationalization of Education in the following topics:
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Education and Liberty in the Developing World
- Education is becoming increasingly international.
- Universal Primary Education is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals, and great improvements have been achieved in the past decade, yet a great deal remains to be done.
- Education is becoming increasingly international.
- Programs, such as the International Baccalaureate, have contributed to the internationalization of education.
- Countries fall into three broad categories based on their Education Index: high, medium, and low human development.
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Education and the Global Perspective
- Education is becoming increasingly international.
- Education in its broadest, most general sense is a means through which the aims and habits of a group of people is passed from one generation to the next.
- Private groups, like Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are also working to improve access to education through such programs as the Perpetual Education Fund.
- Education is becoming increasingly international, and mass schooling has promoted the fundamental idea that everyone has a right to be educated regardless of his/her cultural background.
- Programs such as the International Baccalaureate have also contributed to the internationalization of education.
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Peace
- Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict or war.
- It is awarded annually to internationally notable persons following the prize's creation in the will of Alfred Nobel.
- Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict or war.
- Other views of pacifism include:
- calls for abolition of the institutions of the military and war
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Education and Industrialization
- It has been argued that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth.
- Education economics is the study of economic issues relating to education, including the demand for education and the financing and provision of education.
- The brain drain is often associated with de-skilling of emigrants in their country of destination, while their country of emigration experiences the draining of skilled individuals.
- Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.
- Educational technology is intended to improve education over what it would be without technology.
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Education
- Educational attainment is tied to social class, with upper class individuals acquiring higher degrees from more prestigious schools.
- Education is a major component of social class, both directly and indirectly.
- Educational attainment refers to the level of schooling a person completes — for instance, high school, some college, college, or a graduate degree.
- Upper class individuals are likely to attend schools of higher quality and of greater prestige than those attended by their lower class counterparts.
- Educational inequality is one factor that perpetuates the class divide across generations.
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School
- Education is the process by which society transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to another.
- Education is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people is transmitted from one generation to the next.
- Education has often been seen as a fundamentally optimistic human endeavor characterized by aspirations for progress and betterment.
- Education is perceived as an endeavor that enables children to develop according to their unique needs and potential.
- Education also performs another crucial function.
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New State Spaces
- New York and London are examples of global cities that command vast political, economic, and cultural influence both domestically and internationally.
- Another example of a new state space is the European Union, a confederation of 27 European states that encourages political and economic cooperation among its members.
- One of the most prominent theories in this field is that of global cities.
- Some of these cities are absolutely central to the operation of the global economic system, and some are more peripheral.
- The European Union is a confederation of 27 European states.
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Educational Reform in the U.S.
- Education reform has been pursued for a variety of specific reasons, but, generally, most reforms aim at redressing some societal ills, such as poverty-, gender-, or class-based inequities, or perceived ineffectiveness.
- In the 1990s, most states and districts adopted Outcome-Based Education (OBE) in some form or another.
- Congress also set the standards-based National Education Goals (Goals 2000).
- Education Segregation in the U.S.
- Board of Education
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Politics
- In the 2008 presidential election, 76.2% of graduate degree holders voted, while only 23.4% of people without high school degrees voted.
- Educational attainment, an indicator of social class, can predict political participation.
- An illustration of this is the presidential election between George W.
- Both had millions of dollars of accumulated wealth, and they had higher degrees from Harvard and Yale, respectively.
- Educational attainment, an indicator of social class, can predict one's level of political participation.
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Intelligence and Inequality
- Educational capital can produce or reproduce inequality and also serve as a leveling mechanism that fosters equal opportunity.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Educational capital refers to educational goods that are converted into commodities to be bought, sold, withheld, traded, consumed, and profited from in the educational system.
- Educational capital can be utilized to produce or reproduce inequality, and it can also serve as a leveling mechanism that fosters social justice and equal opportunity.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics.