Understanding Educational Reform in Global Context
Subtitle: Economy, Ideology, and the State (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780824068967
Subjects: Education; Education (Specific Aspects); Education / Teaching; Sociology; General; Education / General; Case studies; Educational change
First sentence: Since the mid-1970s in every region of the world we have witnessed extensive rhetoric and activity identified as "educational reform" in nations characterized as "developed" and "developing," as "capitalist" and "socialist," and as "democratic" and "totalitarian" (Gumbert 1985).