Comparative education
Subtitle: the dialectic of the global and the local
By: edited by Robert F. Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torres.
Contributors: Arnove, Robert F.; Torres, Carlos Alberto.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lanham
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780847684601; 9780847684618
Subjects: Comparative education -- Philosophy.; Education and globalization.; Éducation comparée -- Philosophie; Vergelijkende onderwijskunde.; Vergelijkende pedagogiek.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reframing comparative education: the dialectic of the global and the local / Robert F. Arnove; title: The triumph of technocracy or the collapse of certainty? Modernity, postmodernity, and postcolonialism in comparative education / Anthony Welch; title: Institutionalizing international influence / Joel Samoff; title: The state, social movements, and educational reform / Raymond A. Morrow, Carlos Alberto Torres; title: Culture and Education / Vandra Lea Masemann; title: The question of identity from a comparative education perspective / Christian Fox; title: Changing conceptions of equality of education: forty years of comparative evidence / Joseph P. Farrell; title: Women's education in the twenty-first century: balance and prospects /; title: Nelly P. Stromquist; title: Control of education: issues and tensions in centralization and decentralization / Mark Bray; title: Beyond schooling: adult education in postcolonial societies / Anne Hickling-Hudson; title: The political economy of educational reform in Australia, England and Wales, and the United States / Edward H. Berman; title: Higher education restructuring in the era of globalization: toward a heteronomous model? / Daniel Schugurensky; title: Education in Latin America at the end of the 1990's / Robert Arnove ... (et al.); title: Asian Education / Zhixin Su; title: Education in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities / Rachel Christina, Golnar Mehran, Shabana Mir; title: Russia and Eastern Europe / Maria Bucur, Ben Eklof; title: No teacher guide, no textbooks, no chairs: contending with crisis in African education / Joel Samoff.