Comparative Education (eBook, PDF)

Continuing Traditions, New Challenges, and New Paradigms
Redaktion: Bray, Mark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents perspectives on the changes that have taken place within the field of comparative education, while noting various continuing traditions. Its contributors come from a wide range of countries and contexts, and present their work within a framework set by the 11th congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). The book makes a valuable methodological as well as a conceptual contribution to the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789400710948
• Artikelnr.: 44062851

Inhaltsangabe

Tradition, Change, and the Role of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies.- Conceptual and Methodological Approaches.- The Future of Comparative and International Education in a Globalised World.- Appropriation, Appreciation, Accommodation: Indigenous Wisdoms and Knowledges in Higher Education.- Comparative Education in a Microcosm: Methodological Insights from the International Schools Sector in Hong Kong.- Political Forces and Comparative Education.- A Decade of Transformation: Educational Policies in Central and Eastern Europe.- Decentralisation and Educational Reform in Siberia and the Russian Far East.- Lifelong Learning and Adult Education: Russia meets the West.- Approaches to Global Education in the United States, England and Japan.- Primary Schooling in China and India: Understanding how Sociocontextual Factors Moderate the Role of the State.- Cultures in Comparative Perspective.- Cultural and School-Grade Differences in Korean and WhiteAmerican Children's Narrative Skills.- Childhood Ideology in the United States: A Comparative Cultural View.- Social Hierarchy and Group Solidarity: The Meanings of Work and Vocation/Profession in the Chinese Context and their Implications for Vocational Education.- What Children have Lost by the Modernisation of Education: A Comparison of Experiences in Western Europe and Eastern Asia.

Rezensionen

"This book is ambitious, serious and careful. It is a valuable collection, and is undoubtedly a `must read' for comparative educators."
(Comparative Education, 39:4 (November 2003)