This study sets out to investigate first whether the rapid expansion in the higher education system in Iraq, which has taken place over the last decade, is in fact succeeding in satisfying the social demand for higher education and second, whether the graduates are being utilize…
When the state of Israel was established in 1948, about 150,000 Arabs remained in the country. Since then, this minority, now more than a million, has faced a massive educational problem. For example, the Arab educational system, which was not headed by an Arab until the early 1…
The study was an evaluation of two approaches to teacher education, namely a behaviouristic/teaching skills approach and a humanistic/personal development approach, in Jordan. The study focused on determining the effects of these two approaches on teacher effectiveness during tr…
The value of comparative study lies partly in its capacity for creating a better perspective on one's own system, but also in its suitability for generating insight into cross-cultural problems and issues. This thesis is a comparative study of physical education (PE) in two scho…
The little-appreciated literature of the 1950s offers, in its 'reflexive' parts, a polarized discussion of Education. Two groups of contributors hold implicit philosophical positions, clarified by the slogan-terms 'rigour' and 'relevance'. In the first half-decade, each of the c…
The EInergence of History as a Subject within the PriInary Curricuhun duringthe Twentieth Century and its ImpleInentation in Schools in the late 1990s.The central concern of this thesis is that of curriculum change in relation to historyas a subject within the primary school cur…
It could be argued that since the 1950's and 1960's the need to re—examine the role of education in society has become an urgent task. The need for educational change includes the learning of new job skills, acceptance of new responsibilities, the knowledge of prospective manpow…
This thesis examines the effects of market forces in UK higher education on professional practice in universities and their consequences for the educational experience of international students and those who teach them. It explores whether it is possible in practice for HEIs to …
This thesis derives from a qualitative study of the process of change in highereducation in the ten years since the 1987 White Paper Meeting the Challenge,with particular reference to the impact of three initiatives associated with theconcept of vocationalism, namely Enterprise …
This thesis offers an account of the origins and purposes of business studies courses validated by the Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) and their relationship to changes in the nature of clerical work. The thesis examines the ways in which BTEC courses may be sai…
A purpose of historical sociology is to search out universal patterns within a historical perspective. The almost universal concern of the Victorian governing classes with the question of social control and the problem of order suggests such a pattern. This study seeks to direct…
This work describes the development of education in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar from the earlier 'Kuttabs' to the present modern system, with special reference to the education of women. It deals with the growth and development of modern school education, technical and vocational …
This case-study of Morocco investigates the reciprocal relationshipbetween schooling and society. for the purpose of understanding the roleplayed by the educational institutions within the context of theliberal development strategy followed.The efforts of the Moroccan leadership…