Policy Experiments and Learning Mid-term recommendations for design of experiments

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What is the Value of “Twisting the Lion’s Tail?” Evaluating the use of Policy Experiments in Adaptation Governance and how they can facilitate Learning

This article provides a ‘lineage’ of decisions related to education policy which takes comparison as its motive, knowledge and method. A conceptual chain of world system, internationalization, convergence in education and globalization is briefly outlined. The paper examines decision-making in education policy according to agreement, mainstreaming and production criteria, taking Latin America as the linkage and the European Community as the construction. Reasoning and enlightenment are gathered in different fields of history: culture, economics, politics and education. The present paper applies a core structuring epistemology –culled from a variety of academic domains– with comparison and decision underpinning a complex rationale where time, space, materiality, knowledge, ideas, action, and evaluation all intersect.En este artículo presentamos el linaje de las decisiones de política educativa, utilizando el motivo, el conocimiento y la metodología de los estudios comparados. Se describe brevemente la cadena conceptual del sistema mundial, la internacionalización, la convergencia en la educación y la globalización. También se analiza la toma de decisiones en política educativa en cuanto a la toma de acuerdos, la integración y la producción, tomando América Latina como enlace y la Comunidad Europea como construcción. Se han recogido diferentes razonamientos y ejemplos ilustrativos de diferentes campos de la historia: el ámbito cultural, económico, político y educativo. También hemos hecho uso de una epistemología esencialmente estructural, entresacada de una gran variedad de ámbitos académicos y en el que la comparación y decisión sustentan una lógica compleja en la que interactúan el tiempo, el espacio, la materialidad, los conocimientos, las ideas, la acción y la evaluación.This article is framed within the research actions of Development and Research Unit for Education and Training; Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon. The Development and Research Unit for Education and Training is founded by Foundation for Science and Technology

The Status of Journalism in North Dakota High Schools

With the mass media exerting a tremendous influence on our day-to- day living, scholastic journalism with its emphasis on mass communication becomes a vital part of any high school curriculum. Career literature written about opportunities in journalism strives to motivate the high school student to consider professional journalism as his life\u27 s work. Even though the percentage of high school students who have been active in journalism functions and then elect professional journalism as a career has been small in the past, there has been a decided increase in the college journalism enrollments since the year 1951. According to the Newspaper Fund, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, 19, 229 young people were majoring in journalism careers in 1965 as opposed to 8, 769 in 1951

Radiocarbon dates from jar and coffin burials of the Cardamom Mountains reveal a unique mortuary ritual in Cambodia's late- to post-Angkor period (15th-17th centuries AD)

We present the first radiocarbon dates from previously unrecorded, secondary burials in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia. The mortuary ritual incorporates nautical tradeware ceramic jars and log coffins fashioned from locally harvested trees as burial containers, which were set out on exposed rock ledges at 10 sites in the eastern Cardamom Massif. The suite of 28 14C ages from 4 of these sites (Khnorng Sroal, Phnom Pel, Damnak Samdech, and Khnang Tathan) provides the first estimation of the overall time depth of the practice. The most reliable calendar date ranges from the 4 sites reveals a high- land burial ritual unrelated to lowland Khmer culture that was practiced from cal AD 1395 to 1650. The time period is concurrent with the 15th century decline of Angkor as the capital of the Khmer kingdom and its demise about AD 1432, and the subsequent shift of power to new Mekong trade ports such as Phnom Penh, Udong, and Lovek. We discuss the Cardamom ritual relative to known funerary rituals of the pre to post-Angkorian periods, and to similar exposed jar and coffin burial rituals in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia