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Comparative Ed Basics (Chapter 1)
Global Ed Networks (Chapter 2)
Knowledge Economy (Chapter 3)
Marketing of Knowledge (Chapter 4)
Looking at Other Models
(Chs 5 & 6)
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This is the name for a culture or nation where members can only get employment through the attainment of special diplomas, certificates or other specific educational qualifications.
What is a credentialed society?
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This organization is the leading global investor in education.
What is the World Bank?
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This is the term for a financial system that depends on having an educated workforce to sustain its economic growth and improve its living standards.
What is the knowledge economy?
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This process, which is becoming very important in the marketing of colleges and universities, uses symbols and slogans to create a positive image that attracts prospective students and their families.
What is branding?
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The goal of this world education model is to keep spirituality and morality at the center of education.
What is the Religious Education World Model?
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Progressive educator Paolo Freire wrote his famous book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed during exile from this, his native country.
What is Brazil?
200
The C in UNICEF stands for this.
What is children?
200
OECD asserts that women must have 2.1 children in order to avoid a shortage of these.
What are workers?
200
The TOEFL, or Test of English as a Foreign Language, is administered by this company, the same one that administers the Praxis tests for teachers.
What is ETS/ Educational Testing Service?
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This term is used to describe global methods are adapted to local conditions, as when the educational system of Thailand incorporated Thai Wisdom into its new human capital educational system.
What is glocalization?
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This the term Joel Spring uses to describe how European colonists felt the need to convert the world’s peoples to Christianity and western civilization.
What is white love?
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The goal of this world education model is to educate workers for jobs in the global economy.
What is the Human Capital World Model?
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This online global education community is the result of a United Nations’ effort to connect teachers and students from around the world.
What is the Cyberschoolbus?
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Through its GATS and TRIPS, this major organization has established a free trade zone for educational services.
What is the World Trade Organization?
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The goal of this world education model is to educate social activists.
What is the Progressive Education World Model?
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Also known as world culture theorists, these people believe that all cultures are slowly merging into one uniform global culture, and that local educators draw from this world culture in planning educational policy.
Who are Neo-Institutionalists?
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United Nations group UNESCO has a focus on education, culture and this (the S).
What is Science?
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Of the World Bank and OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development), this is the organization that serves developed rather than developing nations.
What is OECD?
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Major publisher and knowledge marketer McGraw-Hill has claimed three enduring global needs on its website--the need for Capital, knowledge, and transparency-- which are most closely aligned to THIS world model of education.
What is the Human Capital Model?
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These people stress the existence of different ways of knowing the world, rather than believing in a single form of knowledge, and they think that education is a matter of borrowing and lending.
Who are culturalists?
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This famous progressive educator, quoted by Chinese revolutionaries and hailed as the “second Confucius,” wrote about Democracy, change, and education for social justice back in the early 1900s.
Who was John Dewey?
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Related to brain drain, this phenomenon happens when well-educated school graduates take jobs not requiring much education because jobs are so hard to get.
What is Brain Waste?
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This worldwide education network, the result of the UN’s collaboration with Sesame Street, promotes social justice rather than human capital discourse and takes its name from the Congo word for “here on this earth.”
What is Panwapa?
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When Joel Spring discusses what a true global university would look like, he contends that the network organization, rather than the individual university, would do this.
What is: grant the diploma from the organization instead of the university?
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India and Sri Lanka have provided the world examples of this, attempts to link a feeling of national spirit to a religion.
What is religious nationalism?