OECD and Theatre Education

Gender Education through Creating Internet Theatre in Education

In Taiwan, gender equity and gender issues in education recently beginning to open up and become a hot topic in education. Curriculum materials are now being developed, professional publications are beginning to cover gender equity issues, a serious of professional workshops are devoting time to it, and individual teacher educators are starting to become concerned about it. In response to the e...

Roadmap for the Oecd Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes

1. The purpose of this paper is to describe the roadmap for work to be undertaken as part of the Feasibility Study for an OECD Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO). This roadmap was put together following the advice of experts that met on three occasions in 2007 to provide guidance for a strategy [see EDU(2007)8, EDU(2007)9 and EDU(2007)14]. Planning for the AHELO feasibilit...

Oecd Background Paper for Oecd-enlaces Expert Meeting Video Games and Education Magdalena Claro Draft-not for Citation

Video games or computer games are an important part of most young people’s lives today in OECD countries. PISA (2003) showed that 53% of OECD students age 15 play games frequently (“almost every day” or “a few times a week”). In the U.S. studies show that teenagers are spending more time playing computer games and other digital media (e.g. computers and the Internet), than watching TV. Specific...

From the Ballot to the Blackboard ? Partisan and Institutional Effects on Education Policy in the OECD

Most policymakers and economists agree that the quality of a nation’s human capital stock is a chief determinant of economic growth. However, public spending on education also has serious implications for the future distribution of resources in society. This study examines how these distributional concerns are realized in the arena of party politics. Three key questions are explored. Firstly, w...

Oecd/ceri Study of Systemic Innovation in Vocational Education and Training