| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
vi, 491 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: reframing comparative education: the dialectic of the global and the local -- Technocracy, uncertainty, and ethics: comparative education in an era of postmodernity and globalization -- Institutionalizing international influence -- The state, social movements, and educational reform -- Culture and education -- The question of identity from a comparative education perspective -- Equality of education: a half-century of comparative evidence seen from a new millenium -- Women's education in the twenty-first century: balance and prospects -- Control of education: issues and tensions in centralization and decentralization -- Beyond schooling: adult education in postcolonial societies -- The political economy of educational reform in Australia, England and Wales, and the United States -- Higher education restructuring in the era of globalization: toward a heteronomous model? -- Education in Latin America: dependency, underdevelopment, and inequality -- Asian education -- Education in the Middle East: challenges and opportunities -- Russia and Eastern Europe -- No teacher guide, no textbooks, no chairs: contending with crisis in African education -- Comparative education: the dialectics of globalization and its discontents. |
| Subject |
Comparative education -- Philosophy.
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Comparative education. |
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Philosophy. |
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Globalization.
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Globalization. |
| Added Author |
Arnove, Robert F.
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Torres, Carlos Alberto.
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| ISBN |
0742523802 Cloth alkaline paper |
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0742523810 Paper alkaline paper |
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