Reference Books In International Education – serie
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Learning through Collaborative Research
The Six Nation Education Research Project
Häftad, 2013
875 kr
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This book covers the seven-year project involving China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US, to show how collaborative research can help expand worldwide knowledge of education.
Constructing Education for Development
International Organizations and Education for All
Häftad, 2009
875 kr
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Recent research has advanced the understanding of how global processes have led to standardized ideas about modern schooling. Chabbott provides an insightful examination of how the processes of international development have effected the role of education at a global level since World War II.
Civic Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
Case Studies Across Six Societies
Av John L. Cogan, Murray Print
Inbunden, 2002
2454 kr
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This book examines the approach to civic education in six societies located on the Pacific Rim: Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and the US. In these scrupulously designed studies, the contributors investigate the recent re-emergence of civic education in this region. Developments …
School Leadership and Administration
Adopting a Cultural Perspective
Av Allan Walker, Clive Dimmock
Inbunden, 2002
2454 kr
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This text calls for a broader approach to comparative educational administration: one which uses culture as the principle means of analysis. The articles collected by Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock detail the educational practices and outcomes of other systems while taking into account the …
School Leadership and Administration
Adopting a Cultural Perspective
Av Allan Walker, Clive Dimmock
Häftad, 2002
718 kr
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This text calls for a broader approach to comparative educational administration: one which uses culture as the principle means of analysis. The articles collected by Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock detail the educational practices and outcomes of other systems while taking into account the …
Hegemonies Compared
State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong
Inbunden, 2002
747 kr
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This book explores the impact of cultural identity, the internal configurations of the educational field, and the struggles both inside and outside the educational systems of post-World War II Singapore and Hong Kong. By comparing the school politics of these two nations, Wong generates a theory …
Development Education in Japan
A Comparative Analysis of the Contexts for Its Emergence, and Its Introduction into the Japanese School System
Av Yuri Ishii
Inbunden, 2003
747 kr
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This book aims to provide an explanation for the slow introduction of Development Education in Japan.
Daughters of the Tharu
Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls
Inbunden, 2003
2454 kr
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This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the relationship between the social structure and individual agency conditions and governs girls' educational participation in …
Crisis and Hope
The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America
Av Gustavo Fischman, Stephen Ball m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
747 kr
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This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region.
History Education and National Identity in East Asia
Inbunden, 2005
2600 kr
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Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of history education in East Asian societies.
Learning through Collaborative Research
The Six Nation Education Research Project
Inbunden, 2004
2454 kr
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This book covers the seven-year project involving China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US, to show how collaborative research can help expand worldwide knowledge of education.
Women, Education, and Development in Asia
Cross-National Perspectives
Inbunden, 1996
1486 kr
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This volume of twelve original essays examines the interplay between women's education and development, and if and how it has changed women's status, in selected nations in Asia.Educational expansion in recent decades have benefitted women in Asia at least in quantitative terms. Industrialization …
Social Justice and Third World Education
Inbunden, 1996
2454 kr
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First Published in 1997. The impact of international social change is already having a marked effect on the Third World in their internal policies, budgets, and development programs. This collection of original articles addresses the importance of education in the creation of social and …
Third World Education
Quality and Equality
Av Anthony R. Welch, Edward R. Beauchamp
Inbunden, 2000
2454 kr
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This book debunks the argument that quality in education can only be achieved by limiting, or trading off, equality. The quality of schooling is a major issue for Third World nations across the globe. However there is no single measure which is universally accepted. Whether it is, as some …
Teacher Education in Industrialized Nations
Issues in Changing Social Contexts
Av Ivan Z. Holowinsky, Nobuo K. Shimahara
Inbunden, 1995
1867 kr
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The original essays in this volume examine reform-related issues in teacher education in Great Britain, Canada, Japan, Ukraine, United States, and Western Europe. A distinguished group of educators reviews the social context of the teacher, the economics and value of teaching, the pace of change, …
Educating Immigrant Children
Schools and Language Minorities in Twelve Nations
Av Charles L. Glenn, Ester J. De Jong
Inbunden, 1996
2084 kr
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This study is concerned with the ways in which a dozen knowledge-based societies of Western Europe and the English-speaking world respond to unprecedented cultural and linguistic diversity resulting from the flow of immigrants and refugees since World War II. It asks how public policy has sought to …
Ethnographic Eye
Interpretive Studies of Education in China
Av Heidi Ross, Judith Liu m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2454 kr
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First Published in 2000. This book, a collection of ethnographic studies of Chinese schooling, aims to take the reader into Chinese schools and provide a picture of students and teachers as actors who practice culture. The case studies also provide a means by which ethnography is explored as a …
Teacher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
A Comparative Study
Av Paul Morris, John Williamson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1486 kr
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This book investigates the relationships between education and national development in an area of the world where both have acquired considerable importance. It questions assumptions which view education primarily as a direct investment in human capital and approaches which measure the efficacy of …
Inside Japanese Classrooms
The Heart of Education
Av Nancy Sato
Inbunden, 2003
2995 kr
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This detailed ethnographic study of fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms offers new insights into Japanese culture, as many aspects of daily social life are embedded in the educational system. Additionally, this book provides new perspectives on educational reform in the U.S., since many current …
China's National Minority Education
Culture, Schooling, and Development
Inbunden, 1999
2454 kr
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This volume focuses on policies and practices in the education of China's national minorities with the purpose of assessing the goals and impact of state sponsored education for China's non-Han people's. The essays in the four sections of this book examine cultural challenges to state schooling, …
Quality Education for All
Community-Oriented Approaches
Av H. Dean Nielsen, Dean H. Nielson
Inbunden, 1997
2454 kr
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Modern education, conceived in the late 18th century and expanded in the early 19th century to promote enlightenment and social equality, may finally be nearing its institutional limit. Over the past decade, following nearly a century of steady gains, there has been little further advancement in …
Politics of Classroom Life
Classroom Management in International Perspective
Inbunden, 1998
1486 kr
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The growing economic competition among the world's industrialized and developing nations has spurred comparisons and examinations of national school systems. An important aspect of any school system is school and classroom management, which is an indicator of the ultimate goals that a nation has …
Education and the Scandinavian Welfare State in the Year 2000
Equality, Policy, and Reform
Inbunden, 1998
747 kr
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This significant contribution to comparative education presents an authoritative discussion of the recent changes in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The implementation of a democratic educational policy in Scandinavia has been affected by the dominance of the Protestant Church, mass …
Education, Cultures, and Economics
Dilemmas for Development
Av Angela W. Little, Fiona E. Leach m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2454 kr
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This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote …
Gender Issues in International Education
Beyond Policy and Practice
Av Maggie Wilson, Sheena Erskine
Inbunden, 1999
1486 kr
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This book discusses equal opportunity for education in a global context. Research findings from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America are presented. Wilson and Erskine have compiled chapters addressing current gender issues as well as specific problems …
Intense Years
How Japanese Adolescents Balance School, Family and Friends
Av Gerald K. Letendre, Rebecca Erwin Fukuzawa
Inbunden, 2001
1486 kr
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This volume examines the lives of young adolescents in Japanese middle schools, focusing on the dynamics of school, family, and social life, and explores the change from child to adolescent that takes place in the middle school years.
Politics of Educational Innovations in Developing Countries
An Analysis of Knowledge and Power
Av Nelly P. Stromquist, Michael L. Basile m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2454 kr
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In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more modest in practice. This book examines …
Competitor or Ally?
Japan's Role in American Educational Debates
Av Gerald K. LeTendre, Gerald K. LeTendre
Inbunden, 1999
2842 kr
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In this book the authors systematically address the most common stereotypes or myths about Japanese education that are currently being circulated in the popular press, teaching magazines and educational research journals. The authors show how arguments about Japan are used to further political ends …
Distant Alliances
Gender and Education in Latin America
Av Regina Cortina, Nelly P. Stomquist
Inbunden, 2000
2454 kr
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In this ground-breaking study, Regina Cortina and Nelly Stromquist examine how the alliances of international agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations have strengthened public support for educating girls and women in Latin America. Bringing a timely and readable account of …
Teaching in Japan
Inbunden, 2002
2454 kr
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This collection of essays explores teaching in Japan as it relates to contemporary social change in the past two decades. The collection explores day-to-day teaching in Japan from the teacher's erspective relying on first hand accounts by those within the system.
