Aaron Benavot
Biographic Data
| ID | 174564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Benavot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Benavot |
| SIGNATURE | BENAVOT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4115-0323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Global indicators of progress on climate change education: Non-state actor data collaboration for SDG 4
Should we not be educating for resilience? Leveraging SDG 4 in times of crisis
Reimagining adult education and lifelong learning for all: Historical and critical perspectives
Can we meet the sustainability challenges? The role of education and lifelong learning
Education and lifelong learning are increasingly being mobilised to address the global environmental crisis and accompanying sustainability challenges. This article discusses the many roles of education about and for sustainable development, drawing on evidence and arguments put forward in the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report, Education for People and Planet . It highlights specific viewpoints, values and ways of thinking that best charact…
School Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Primary Curricular Categories in the Twentieth Century
Literacy in the 21st century: Towards a dynamic nexus of social relations
Pisa, Power, and Policy: The emergence of global educational governance
The goal of this book is to problematize this development and PISA as an institution-building force in global education. It scrutinizes the role of PISA in the emerging regime of global educational governance and questions the presumption that the quality of a nation's school system can be evaluated through a standardized assessment that is insensitive to the world's vast cultural and institutional diversity. The book raises the question of wheth…
Policies toward quality education and student learning: Constructing a critical perspective
This paper argues that, in today's highly interconnected world, education models, practices, evidence and policies are quickly flowing across borders. Comparative information and science-derived knowledge about foreign education systems are being disseminated and “borrowed” to an unprecedented degree. The “demands” of a competitive world economy and calls for accountability and evidence-based policy have contributed to expanding networks of speci…
National, regional and international learning assessments: Trends among developing countries, 1960–2009
This paper examines annual changes in the participation of developing countries in three kinds of learning assessment activity over the past three decades. It specifically highlights, and provides initial explanations for, the worldwide spread of national and regional assessments since the mid-1990s. The paper argues that national learning assessments – namely, non-standardised, context-sensitive and non-comparable learning assessments – have bec…
Imagining a transformed Unesco with learning at its core
School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education
Realizing ‘Eu-Topia’: Insiders’ views on An Emerging EU Research Community
The paper seeks to provide an insider's view into the implementation of goals set by the European Commission for socio-economic research. By analysing project coordinators’ responses to questionnaires (n=88), several aspects of the emergence of a European social science research community are examined. Focus is placed on three ‘European Added Values’, defined within two subsequent calls for research proposals and funding opportunities: framework …
Growing Up in a Classless Society? School to Work Transitions
An analysis of structural factors associated with participation in state‐funded adult basic education programmes
This paper examines the effects of the broader social, political and economic context on participation in state‐funded adult literacy programmes. Using the state as the unit of analysis it employs both a cross‐sectional and longitudinal research design to determine the impact of state characteristics on aggregate adult education participation rates
Elite Knowledge for the Masses: The Origins and Spread of Mathematics and Science Education in National Curricula
This article examines how and why mathematics and science became universally required, core components of official elementary and secondary school curricula worldwide. Based on a broad analysis of historical documents and official curricular timetables, it discusses the introduction and growth of these school subjects since the 1800s. While math-related subjects became required in most national school curricula relatively early in the nineteenth …
Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Curricula, 1920-1986
New Citizens for a New Society: The Institutional Origins of Mass Schooling in Sweden
The Social History of American Education
Law and the Shaping of Public Education 1785-1954
Journal Article Law and the Shaping of Public Education 1785–1954 Get access Tyack David James Thomas Benavot Aaron, Law and the Shaping of Public Education 1785–1954. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xi, 259 pp. $25.00. William G. Buss William G. Buss University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 1989, Pages 184–185, …
Education, Gender, and Economic Development: A Cross-National Study
This article addresses two issues: Do gender differences in educational expansion have different effects on national economic growth? If so, why? In past comparative research, these issues were either ignored or explained in relation to education's impact on women's participation in the labor force and reproductive behavior. The study presented here analyzed cross-national data on 96 countries from 1960 to 1985 and found clear evidence that in le…
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954
Law and the Shaping of Public Education: 1785-1954
The Expansion of Primary Education, 1870-1940: Trends and Issues
Research on the expansion of mass education has been limited to the post-World War II period and mainly to Western Europe and North America. The few studies of other regions and periods have tended to rely on the case-study approach. Thus, an accurate assessment of competing theoretical explanations is partially constrained by the limited scope of empirical evidence. This article seeks to overcome this weakness by analyzing new estimates of prima…
Courts and Public Schools: Educational Litigation in Historical Perspective
This study is an exploratory social history of litigation about public education. Using West digests as an index of appellate cases, it first examines the changing volume and character of litigation from the earliest recorded cases until 1981. It then relates trends in litigation to two broad phases of educational history: the system-building era, when courts helped to clarify the lines of authority in an ambiguously decentralized system; and the…
The Expansion of Primary Education, 1870-1940: Trends and Issues
Research on the expansion of mass education has been limited to the post-World War II period and mainly to Western Europe and North America. The few studies of other regions and periods have tended to rely on the case-study approach. Thus, an accurate assessment of competing theoretical explanations is partially constrained by the limited scope of empirical evidence. This article seeks to overcome this weakness by analyzing new estimates of prima…
Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Curricula, 1920-1986
Education, Gender, and Economic Development: A Cross-National Study
This article addresses two issues: Do gender differences in educational expansion have different effects on national economic growth? If so, why? In past comparative research, these issues were either ignored or explained in relation to education's impact on women's participation in the labor force and reproductive behavior. The study presented here analyzed cross-national data on 96 countries from 1960 to 1985 and found clear evidence that in le…
Reimagining adult education and lifelong learning for all: Historical and critical perspectives
National, regional and international learning assessments: Trends among developing countries, 1960–2009
This paper examines annual changes in the participation of developing countries in three kinds of learning assessment activity over the past three decades. It specifically highlights, and provides initial explanations for, the worldwide spread of national and regional assessments since the mid-1990s. The paper argues that national learning assessments – namely, non-standardised, context-sensitive and non-comparable learning assessments – have bec…
Literacy in the 21st century: Towards a dynamic nexus of social relations
The Rise and Decline of Vocational Education
In this paper, the expansion of and the relative emphasis on secondary vocational education is placed in a broad historical and cross-national perspective. First, the origins of technical-vocational education in both European and non-European systems are briefly outlined. Second, contemporary enrollment patterns in vocational education (1950-1975) are analyzed in light of the paper's main empirical finding: the relative share of secondary vocatio…
Elite Knowledge for the Masses: The Origins and Spread of Mathematics and Science Education in National Curricula
This article examines how and why mathematics and science became universally required, core components of official elementary and secondary school curricula worldwide. Based on a broad analysis of historical documents and official curricular timetables, it discusses the introduction and growth of these school subjects since the 1800s. While math-related subjects became required in most national school curricula relatively early in the nineteenth …
Courts and Public Schools: Educational Litigation in Historical Perspective
This study is an exploratory social history of litigation about public education. Using West digests as an index of appellate cases, it first examines the changing volume and character of litigation from the earliest recorded cases until 1981. It then relates trends in litigation to two broad phases of educational history: the system-building era, when courts helped to clarify the lines of authority in an ambiguously decentralized system; and the…
Should we not be educating for resilience? Leveraging SDG 4 in times of crisis
An analysis of structural factors associated with participation in state‐funded adult basic education programmes
This paper examines the effects of the broader social, political and economic context on participation in state‐funded adult literacy programmes. Using the state as the unit of analysis it employs both a cross‐sectional and longitudinal research design to determine the impact of state characteristics on aggregate adult education participation rates
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954
Global indicators of progress on climate change education: Non-state actor data collaboration for SDG 4
The Rise and Decline of Vocational Education
In this paper, the expansion of and the relative emphasis on secondary vocational education is placed in a broad historical and cross-national perspective. First, the origins of technical-vocational education in both European and non-European systems are briefly outlined. Second, contemporary enrollment patterns in vocational education (1950-1975) are analyzed in light of the paper's main empirical finding: the relative share of secondary vocatio…
Courts and Public Schools: Educational Litigation in Historical Perspective
This study is an exploratory social history of litigation about public education. Using West digests as an index of appellate cases, it first examines the changing volume and character of litigation from the earliest recorded cases until 1981. It then relates trends in litigation to two broad phases of educational history: the system-building era, when courts helped to clarify the lines of authority in an ambiguously decentralized system; and the…
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954
Law and the Shaping of Public Education: 1785-1954
The Expansion of Primary Education, 1870-1940: Trends and Issues
Research on the expansion of mass education has been limited to the post-World War II period and mainly to Western Europe and North America. The few studies of other regions and periods have tended to rely on the case-study approach. Thus, an accurate assessment of competing theoretical explanations is partially constrained by the limited scope of empirical evidence. This article seeks to overcome this weakness by analyzing new estimates of prima…
The Social History of American Education
Law and the Shaping of Public Education 1785-1954
Journal Article Law and the Shaping of Public Education 1785–1954 Get access Tyack David James Thomas Benavot Aaron, Law and the Shaping of Public Education 1785–1954. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xi, 259 pp. $25.00. William G. Buss William G. Buss University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 1989, Pages 184–185, …
Education, Gender, and Economic Development: A Cross-National Study
This article addresses two issues: Do gender differences in educational expansion have different effects on national economic growth? If so, why? In past comparative research, these issues were either ignored or explained in relation to education's impact on women's participation in the labor force and reproductive behavior. The study presented here analyzed cross-national data on 96 countries from 1960 to 1985 and found clear evidence that in le…
New Citizens for a New Society: The Institutional Origins of Mass Schooling in Sweden
Elite Knowledge for the Masses: The Origins and Spread of Mathematics and Science Education in National Curricula
This article examines how and why mathematics and science became universally required, core components of official elementary and secondary school curricula worldwide. Based on a broad analysis of historical documents and official curricular timetables, it discusses the introduction and growth of these school subjects since the 1800s. While math-related subjects became required in most national school curricula relatively early in the nineteenth …
Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Curricula, 1920-1986
An analysis of structural factors associated with participation in state‐funded adult basic education programmes
This paper examines the effects of the broader social, political and economic context on participation in state‐funded adult literacy programmes. Using the state as the unit of analysis it employs both a cross‐sectional and longitudinal research design to determine the impact of state characteristics on aggregate adult education participation rates
Growing Up in a Classless Society? School to Work Transitions
School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education
Realizing ‘Eu-Topia’: Insiders’ views on An Emerging EU Research Community
The paper seeks to provide an insider's view into the implementation of goals set by the European Commission for socio-economic research. By analysing project coordinators’ responses to questionnaires (n=88), several aspects of the emergence of a European social science research community are examined. Focus is placed on three ‘European Added Values’, defined within two subsequent calls for research proposals and funding opportunities: framework …
National, regional and international learning assessments: Trends among developing countries, 1960–2009
This paper examines annual changes in the participation of developing countries in three kinds of learning assessment activity over the past three decades. It specifically highlights, and provides initial explanations for, the worldwide spread of national and regional assessments since the mid-1990s. The paper argues that national learning assessments – namely, non-standardised, context-sensitive and non-comparable learning assessments – have bec…
Imagining a transformed Unesco with learning at its core
Policies toward quality education and student learning: Constructing a critical perspective
This paper argues that, in today's highly interconnected world, education models, practices, evidence and policies are quickly flowing across borders. Comparative information and science-derived knowledge about foreign education systems are being disseminated and “borrowed” to an unprecedented degree. The “demands” of a competitive world economy and calls for accountability and evidence-based policy have contributed to expanding networks of speci…
Pisa, Power, and Policy: The emergence of global educational governance
The goal of this book is to problematize this development and PISA as an institution-building force in global education. It scrutinizes the role of PISA in the emerging regime of global educational governance and questions the presumption that the quality of a nation's school system can be evaluated through a standardized assessment that is insensitive to the world's vast cultural and institutional diversity. The book raises the question of wheth…
Literacy in the 21st century: Towards a dynamic nexus of social relations
Can we meet the sustainability challenges? The role of education and lifelong learning
Education and lifelong learning are increasingly being mobilised to address the global environmental crisis and accompanying sustainability challenges. This article discusses the many roles of education about and for sustainable development, drawing on evidence and arguments put forward in the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report, Education for People and Planet . It highlights specific viewpoints, values and ways of thinking that best charact…
School Knowledge for the Masses: World Models and National Primary Curricular Categories in the Twentieth Century
Reimagining adult education and lifelong learning for all: Historical and critical perspectives
Global indicators of progress on climate change education: Non-state actor data collaboration for SDG 4
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