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International Handbook of Comparative Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1371

International Handbook of Comparative Education

This two-volume compendium brings together leading scholars from around the world who provide authoritative studies of the old and new epistemic motifs and theoretical strands that have characterized the interdisciplinary field of comparative and international education in the last 50 years. It analyses the shifting agendas of scholarly research, the different intellectual and ideological perspectives and the changing methodological approaches used to examine and interpret education and pedagogy across different political formations, societies and cultures.

Going to School in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Going to School in Latin America

Latin America has tremendous diversity geographically, politically, and demographically. Some countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile, enjoy a time of peace and growing prosperity, while other countries such as Bolivia and Columbia are struggling with government and economic issues. This volume examines the history and present educational systems, both public and private, of approximately 15 countries in the Latin American region, along with a day in the life feature that shows what the school day is like from the students' point of view.

Crisis and Hope
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Crisis and Hope

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-12-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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.

Inequality in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 609

Inequality in Education

Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes a series of methods for measuring education inequalities. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends in the distribution of formal schooling in national populations. It also offers a strategic comparative and international education policy statement on recent shifts in education inequality, and new approaches to explore, develop and improve comparative education and policy research globally. Contributing authors examine how education as a process interacts with government finance policy to form patterns of access to educatio...

Educating All Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

Educating All Children

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Experts illuminate the challenges of achieving universal basic and secondary education, discussing the importance and difficulties not only of expanding access to education and but also of improving the quality of education.

School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective

In this special edited volume, scholars with diverse backgrounds and conceptual frameworks explore how economic, political, social and ideological forces impact on school curricula over time and place. In providing regional and global perspectives on curricular policies, practices and reforms, the authors move beyond the conventional notion that school contents reflect principally national priorities and subject-based interests.

Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America

Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.

Psychoanalysis and Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Psychoanalysis and Politics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-02-02
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

This volume explores a central paradox in the evolution of psychoanalytic thought and practice and the ways in which they were used. Why and how have some authoritarian regimes utilized psychoanalytic concepts of the self to envisage a new social and political order?

Teaching the World's Teachers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Teaching the World's Teachers

Fischman, James W. Fraser, Guangwei Hu, Arie Kizel, Jari Lavonen, Lauren Lefty, Wei Liao, Jason Loh, Silvana Mesquita, Hannele Niemi, Lily Orland-Barak, Paula Razquin, Carol Anne Spreen, Eduard Vallory, Yisu Zhou

As the World Turns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 502

As the World Turns

Examines two of the major problems confronting higher education in this modern world. This volume compares discriminated, underrepresented and excluded groups in universities around the globe; identifying personal, group, institutional and societal factors related to persistent inequality.