Disparate Ladders

Why School and University Policies Differ in Germany, Japan and Switzerland
Herausgeber: Kahn, Owen; Heidenheimer, Arnold

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Produktbeschreibung

This study breaks new ground in examining how political factors helped lead three countries with highly regarded education systems to evolve quite different structures and processes in their secondary and higher education sectors

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9781560002772
• ISBN-10: 1560002778
• Artikelnr.: 28252047

Autorenporträt

Arnold Heidenheimer

Inhaltsangabe

I: Historical Development and Emergent Distinctions; 1: Political
Transformations, Educational Traditions, and the Changing Role of
Governments; 2: Three Paths to Modern Education: Swiss Contrasts to Japan
and Germany, 1850-1950; II: How and Why Secondary Schooling Differs; 3:
Comparing Structures and Selection Reforms Across Secondary School Sectors
and Countries; 4: Post-1970 Reform Struggles and the Restructuring of
Meritocratic Selection Systems; 5: Vocational and Dual System Credentials
in the Context of Changing Labor Markets; III: Appraisals amid Contending
Paradigms; 6: Bureaucratic and Judicial Control and Monitoring of Schools
and Teachers; 7: Locality and Gender Inequalities in Access to Education:
National and Subnational Contrasts; 8: Assessments of Student Attainment
through National Exams and International Testing; IV: Channeling Expansion
in Higher Education; 9: Universities in the Higher Education Matrix: How
Growth Patterns Differed; 10: University Finance and Student Mobility:
Recruitment to National, Land, and Private Universities; 11: Regime and
Professional Contexts of Higher Education: Between Academic Breadth and
Specialism; V: Approaches to Comparative Appraisal; 12: Categorical
Imperatives and Contingent Outcomes