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dc.contributor.author | Baldacchino, Godfrey | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-31T08:16:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-31T08:16:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Baldacchino, G. (2012). Meeting the tests of time: small states in the 21st century. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 15(1), 14-25. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 15231615 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/19537 | |
dc.description.abstract | The analytic category of “small states” remains problematic in the 21st century. Its legitimacy as a rigorous conceptual category continues to be debated; even as small states assume a strident visibility on the world stage because of climate change negotiations. This paper reviews the scepticism that hovers around the small state concept, and invites a largely social constructivist discussion that looks at a syndrome of behavioural issues which are more likely to occur with decreasing polity size. Education remains a key policy battleground for small states, as the latter balance human resource needs with the trans-territorial aspirations of their brightest and ablest (and often wealthiest). In spite of spectacular advances in information and communication technologies, the personality of the small state has not essentially changed; and this remains characterised by rootedness and mobility. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Teachers College, Columbia University | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Islands | en_GB |
dc.subject | States, Small -- Economic conditions -- 21st century | en_GB |
dc.subject | States, Small | en_GB |
dc.subject | Education -- 21st century | en_GB |
dc.title | Meeting the tests of time : small states in the 21st century | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
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