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