| Description |
xxi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series, theory, research, and practice in social education
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SUNY series, theory, research, and practice in social education.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Setting the stage -- The importance of a global perspective -- Understanding the change process -- Strategy and implementation: the CHI story -- Chapter 2: Research as reflection on practice -- Seeking new knowledge -- The search for grounded theory -- Supplementary date -- Chapter 3: Global education as a social movement -- Conditions which produce the movement -- Membership in the movement -- Sociopolitical context of the movement -- Structural properties of the movement -- Institutional responses -- Chapter 4: Meaning and activity -- Defining global education -- Activity reveals and creates meaning -- Engagement and resistance -- Chapter 5: Competing demands and the use of time in schools -- Barriers to participation -- Demands come from every direction -- The district ethos -- Teachers' defense mechanisms -- Contemplating the larger picture -- Chapter 6: The uniqueness of the single school -- Perceptions of involvement: a typology -- The culture of the school: three case studies -- Chapter 7: The pivotal role of the principal -- Principal leadership today: key theories -- Goal orientation of principals -- District ethos and the principalship -- Two case studies -- Chapter 8: The interventionists -- Three interconnected functions -- What it takes to do the job -- Intervention as an evolutionary process -- The inner life of the interventionist -- Chapter 9: What does it take to globalize the curriculum of a school? -- What we believe we know -- What we hypothesize: recommendations for further exploration. |
| Subject |
International education -- Curricula -- California -- Orange County.
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International education -- Curricula. |
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California -- Orange County. |
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International education. |
| Added Author |
Tye, Kenneth A.
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| ISBN |
0791410412 alkaline paper |
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0791410420 paperback alkaline paper |
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