Local Meanings, Global Schooling
Subtitle: Anthropology and World Culture Theory
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 2, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781403961631
Subjects: Anthropology; Educational systems; Philosophy of education; Multicultural Education; Education; Archaeology / Anthropology; Anthropology - General; Educational Policy & Reform; Education-Educational Policy & Reform; Education-Multicultural Education; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Comparative education; Educational anthropology
First sentence: About a hundred years, ago, King Rama V strategically thought of ceding power over some small areas of land to Britain and France to protect the greater part of the Kingdom, instead of fighting in the battlefield where traditional weapons could not compete with the more advanced war equipment of the Europeans.