Global Education Reform

How Privatization and Public Investment Influence Education Outcomes
Herausgeber: Adamson, Frank; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Astrand, Bjorn

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Produktbeschreibung

Written by acclaimed education experts, Global Education Reform examines the differing outcomes of large-scale education reforms in six countries that pursued ideologically and educationally distinctive approaches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781138930551
• ISBN-10: 1138930555
• Artikelnr.: 57050461

Autorenporträt

Frank Adamson is a policy and research analyst at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Björn Åstrand is a senior lecturer at Umeå University, Sweden, where he previously served as the dean for the School of Education. Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, the author of over 300 publications, and a former president of the American Educational Research Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1. Privatization or Public Investment? A Global Question
2. Chile: A Long-Term Neoliberal Experiment and Its Impact on the Quality
and Equity of Education
3. Four Keys to Cuba's Provision of High Quality Public Education
4. From Citizens Into Consumers: The Transformation of Democratic Ideals
Into School Markets in Sweden
5. The Finnish Paradox: Equitable Public Education within a Competitive
Market Economy
6. The Critical Choice in American Education: Privatization or Public
Investment
7. Developing High-Quality Public Education in Canada: The Case of Ontario
8. Privatization and Public Investment: Is the Invisible Hand a Magic Wand?
Index