Education - Comparative

School curricula are established not only to prepare young people for a real world, but also to beckon an imagined one anchored in individual rights and collective progress. Both worlds--the real and the imagined--increasingly reflect influential trans-national forces. In this special edited volume, scholars...

Education and Social Justice presents up-to-date scholarly research on global l and comparative trends in education, social justice and policy research. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern in the field of social justice, globalisation, and...

Chicago, the Leverhulme Trust (for an emeritus fellowship awarded to Maurice Kogan which enabled a particular part of the English study to be completed) and to the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation which provided funds assisting us with the last stage of the project...

The enlargement of the European Union and issues related to it are a central aspect of European policy. The challenges faced are diverse and immense. The development of Vocational Education and Training (VET) is a major concern of the Lisbon strategy for making Europe...

This book discusses educational reforms in the Asia-Pacific region and evaluates their impact on learning. The central argument highlights the importance of understanding reforms and learning within their historical, political and sociocultural contexts.Author: Clarence NgISBN-10: 1402030029ISBN-13: 9781402030024Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2008Pages: 376Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.21h...

This book is based on the work of a European partnership, whose members came together from Belgium England Finland Germany Portugal and Greece with the support of funding from the EU Socrates Programme. Our goal was to work collaboratively to generate new ways of...

This open accessbook shows what teaching for democratic citizenship and peace can look like in classrooms in violent and less-violent contexts around the world.It features chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners based in Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cyprus, Mexico, Spain, the UK and the...

This book explores the agenda-setting and mediation of the education decentralisation policy in Benin as a postcolonial, francophone context in West Africa. As such, it throws into sharp relief how far education decentralisation, as a global governance reform, informs policy and practice. The research...

This book tells the real story of education in low-income countries and shows why ordinary people are making extreme sacrifices to reject free public schools in favor of low quality private schools, both legal and illegal. Based on the author's experience of working in...

Misiaszek examines the (dis)connection between critical global citizenship education models and ecopedagogy which is grounded in Paulo Freire's pedagogy. Exploring how concepts of citizenship are affected by globalization, this book argues that environmental pedagogues must teach critical environmental literacies in order for students to...

The increasing development of partnerships between universities and communities allows the research of academics to become engaged with those around them. This book highlights several case studies from a range of disciplines, such as psychology, social work and education to explore how these mutually...

Author: Zsuzsanna MilleiISBN-10: 1137477822ISBN-13: 9781137477828Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2015Pages: 265Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing...

Pinar documents that the field of curriculum studies in the United States is in the early stages of a second paradigm shift, this time stimulated by present political circumstances. He explains why their acceptance in contemporary scholarship signals their conceptual exhaustion and how recent...

Relying on a blend of policy, critical-theoretical and practice-based perspectives, describes and critically analyze key trends in the region, while pointing out new directions pertaining to future developments in education and culture in South Asia in relation to the contradictory implications of globalization in...

Asia is rapidly developing a wide variety of regional organizations and interactive patterns, reflecting in large part its increasing role in the global economic and political engagements. Higher Education constitutes a distinct sphere of activity within this overall pattern of regionalization.Author: J. HawkinsISBN-10: 1137002875ISBN-13:...

Characterizing Pedagogical Flow presents conclusions from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research project blending quantitative and qualitative approaches through a discourse methodology. The work produced portraits of mathematics and science education that were dramatically different for each of the countries involved: France, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland,...

The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination...

As we confront the future of our professional endeavors, we tend to rely with con?dence on longstanding and widely honored assumptions about the world and ourselves. We believe we have accumulated sturdy structures of knowledge, eff- tive practices, and sound values. Yet, we rely...

Author: Bill WilliamsonISBN-10: 0333241371ISBN-13: 9780333241370Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/1979Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.57d

This book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India.Author: S. SharmaISBN-10: 0230619916ISBN-13: 9780230619913Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2011Pages: 274Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.40h x...

While much has been written about South African education, now, for the first time, gathered in one collection are glimpses of South African curriculum studies described by six distinctive points of view.Author: W. PinarISBN-10: 0230615082ISBN-13: 9780230615083Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2010Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.30h...

Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the Asia/Pacific region. This volume provides a framework to examine these challenges in the region and beyond.Author: Terance W. Bigalke,Deane E. NeubauerISBN-10: 0230613233ISBN-13: 9780230613232Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2009Pages: 268Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize:...

This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the PRC after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s.Author: M. ZhouISBN-10: 0230612350ISBN-13: 9780230612358Publisher:...

Schooling in Europe is being transformed by a new policy orthodoxy affecting all aspects of the school. Privatization, decentralization, and business focused curriculum reform are all on the rise. The authors consider the impact and conflict of such changes on schooling in England, France,...

The fascination with the commercial value of research, coupled with the rise of neo-liberal 'new public management' in the public sector, has led to the rise of a managerial class in the university. These essays focus on the widespread use of business models and...

Based on the views of teenagers across Europe and in the Far East, this book argues that we need to reconsider how we judge schools and what they are for. It shows that the treatment of pupils in schools makes more difference to teenagers'...

The contributors to Internationalising the University: the Chinese Context offer an in-depth understanding of the rapidly changing developments in the fields of institutional, social, management, curriculum and student concerns and changes.Author: T. Coverdale-JonesISBN-10: 0230203515ISBN-13: 9780230203518Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2008Pages: 250Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.50h x...

It argues that the main purpose of educational research is to improve student learning, and that international comparative studies are no exception.Author: Jinfa Cai,Ida A. C. Mok,Vijay ReddyISBN-10: 3319424130ISBN-13: 9783319424132Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2016Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.10d

Policy decisions in education have changed drastically as a result of the recent threats to our international and national security. In this timely and compelling collection, authors discuss the significance of policy decisions on education systems, and argue that all forms of violence, including...

Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia is a critical narration of how Australian children use cultural markers such as, skin color, diet and religious practices to build their identity categories of "self" and "other."Author: P. SrinivasanISBN-10: 1349483214ISBN-13: 9781349483211Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2014Pages: 186Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize:...

This book inquires about the processes through which different higher education systems have determined national higher education policies related to competitiveness, as well as the strategies they have adopted to enhance their global competitiveness.Author: V. RustISBN-10: 1137366559ISBN-13: 9781137366559Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2013Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This project looks at the work of the faculty in Indonesia's National Islamic Institutes to address, respond, and prevent the success of radical Islamic discourse and institution of Shari'a law in the school system.Author: R. Lukens-BullISBN-10: 1137308575ISBN-13: 9781137308573Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2013Pages: 179Format: HardcoverWeight:...

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political system On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University--the first...

The continuing gap in achievement between traditionally underserved students (students of color, English learners, and poor children) and their middle-class white peers, however, has provoked questions of the effectiveness of current mathematics teaching practices for meeting the needs of these students.Author: M. FooteISBN-10: 0230622399ISBN-13:...

This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary approach to the subject that considers a variety of spaces of engagement around knowledge in Asia and Africa.Author: D. KapoorISBN-10: 0230621015ISBN-13: 9780230621015Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2010Pages:...

This book challenges the uncritical use of the long held dictum of the development discourse that education empowers women. Situated in the post-structuralist feminist position it argues that in its current state the educational discourse in Pakistan actually disempowers women.Author: M. NaseemISBN-10: 0230618537ISBN-13: 9780230618534Publisher:...

This collection of peace education efforts in conflict and post-conflict societies brings together an international group of scholars to offer the very latest theoretical and pedagogical developments. Rather than focus on ad hoc peace education efforts this book investigates the need for long term,...

Historically Black colleges and universities play a vital role in the education of African Americans in the United States. For nearly 150 years, these institutions have trained the leadership of the Black community, graduating the nation s African American teachers, doctors, lawyers, and scientists....

Neoliberal policies have had an impact on educational systems globally. This book provides a detailed and critical analysis of neoliberal educational policies and reforms in Turkey by focusing on the Justice and Development Party's reform efforts over the last eight years.Author: K. InalISBN-10: 0230341284ISBN-13:...

Provides a provocative examination of the interplay between political culture and educational policy. The goal is to provide a better understanding of how different countries are responding to the global exchange of policy ideas that includes 'the standards movement' and 'new public management' or...

Cultural and spiritual resources are arguably essential to achievement of educational goals, both as economic and political initiatives and as human rights. This book addresses questions surrounding education and inter-cultural understanding in a broad global framework.Author: K. MundyISBN-10: 0230340105ISBN-13: 9780230340107Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2012Pages:...

The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and youth, for secondary education, and for social and educational inequality. This book assesses secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age in the UK and places...

Provides a critical space in which to interrogate the ways in which postcolonial voices are imagined and struggle to be valued, heard, and responded to. Takes the imagination of the postcolonial as its focus, acknowledging that it is a troubling, unsettling, and ambiguous concept...

This groundbreaking volume considers whether the question of the high school's seeming demise is exaggerated and why it is experiencing the many problems that it does. Essays focus on the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.Author: B. FranklinISBN-10: 0230338461ISBN-13: 9780230338463Publisher:...

Academic freedom has been a principle that undergirds the university since 1915. Beyond this, it also protects a spirit of free inquiry essential to a democratic society. But in the post-9/11 present, the basic principles of academic freedom have been deeply challenged. There have...

Academic freedom has been a principle that undergirds the university since 1915. Beyond this, it also protects a spirit of free inquiry essential to a democratic society. But in the post-9/11 present, the basic principles of academic freedom have been deeply challenged. There have...

Extends Marxist analysis to include key concepts from the work of neo-Marxists Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser. It looks in detail at racism in the U.K. and the U.S. and goes on to examine the differences between schooling and education, and their relationship to...

Higher education is growing most rapidly in the Asia-Pacific region, and policy makers are facing the task of balancing quality and quantity. This book will help readers understand the current situation of higher education not only in this region but everywhere that they may...

This unique manual provides a comprehensive training guide to prepare students for model diplomacy competitions. Designed for students at all levels (middle school, high school, college, and university), it is ideal for new and established model diplomacy programs, classes, and clubs. The manual provides...