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.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780742559851; 9780742559844
Subjects: Comparative education -- Philosophy; Education and globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reframing comparative education : the dialectic of the global and the local / Robert F. Arnove; title: Technocracy, uncertainty, and ethics : comparative education in an era of postmodernity and globalization / Anthony Welch; title: Institutionalizing international influence / Joel Samoff; title: The state, social movements, and educational reform / Raymond A. Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres; title: Culture and education / Vandra Lea Masemann; title: The question of identity from a comparative education perspective / Christine Fox; title: Equality of education : a half-century of comparative evidence seen from a new millennium / Joseph P. Farrell; title: Women's education in the twenty-first century : balance and prospects / Nelly P. Stromquist; title: Control of education : issues and tensions in centralization and decentralization / Mark Bray; title: Beyond schooling : the role of adult and community education in postcolonial change / Anne Hickling-Hudson; title: The political economy of educational reform in Australia, England, and the United States / Edward H. Berman ... [et al.]; title: Higher education restructuring in the era of globalization : toward a heteronomous model? / Daniel Schugurensky; title: Education in Latin America : dependency, underdevelopment, and inequality / Robert Arnove, Stephen Franz, and Carlos Alberto Torres; title: Education in Asia : globalization and its effects / John N. Hawkins; title: Education in the Middle East : challenges and opportunities / Rachel Christina with Golnar Mehran and Shabana Mir; title: Russia and Eastern Europe / Maria Bucur and Ben Eklof; title: Education for all in Africa : still a distant dream / Joel Samoff with Bidemi Carrol; title: Comparative education : the dialectics of globalization and its discontents / Carlos Alberto Torres.