Elizabeth McLeish’s scientific contributions

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Processes of Transition in Education Systems
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April 2001

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Economics of Education Review

Elizabeth McLeish

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David Phillips

Whole issue. Incl. bibl. In countries that are moving from what might be generally described as 'authoritarian' styles of government to various styles of liberal democracy, education systems pass through certains stages or 'processes'. But is it possible to identify any common features that might be observable in systems that are, on the surface at least, very diverse, such as Latvia, South Africa, and the five new Länder (states) of the Federal Republic of Germany that correspond to the former German Democratic Republic. This issue tries toanswer this question through a model that might be applicable both to the countries underconsiderationand to other countries in similar - or comparable - states of transition.

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... wed' episodes). In asking how best to engage with these hitherto unexplored points on the 'spectrum of transfer', we again find potential within literature on education and conflict. Scholars interested in policy borrowing in education have also focused on the post-1989 transitions of nations emerging from communism (see, for example, Kersh, 1998). McLeish & Phillips (1998) have argued convincingly that there is merit in searching for common trajectories between such transitions from communism to democracy and other transitions towards democracy not necessarily departing from a communist past, such as South Africa's transition out of apartheid. The model that McLeish & Phillips (1998) present in order to a ...

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Educational Transfer in Situations Affected by Conflict: Towards a Common Research Endeavour
Processes of Transition in Education Systems
  • Citing Article
  • April 2001

Economics of Education Review