Comparative education: continuing traditions, new challenges and new paradigms/

Other Authors: Bray, Mark ,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003
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Table of Contents:
  • Tradition, change, and the role of the World Council of comparative Education societies / Mark Bray
  • The future of comparative and international education in a globalised world / David N. Wilson
  • Appropriation, appreciation, accommodation : indigenous wisdoms and knowledges in higher education / Douglas L. Morgan
  • Comparative education in a microcosm : methodological insights from the International Schools Sector in Hong Kong / Mark Bray and Yoko Yamato
  • A decade of transformation : educational policies in Central and Eastern Europe / Wolfgang Mitter
  • Decentralisation and educational reform in Siberia and the Russian Far East / Tadashi Endo
  • Lifelong learning and adult education : Russia meets the West / Joseph Zajda
  • Approaches to global education in the United States, England and Japan / Hiroko Fujikane
  • Primary schooling in China and India : understanding how sociocontextual factors moderate the role of the state / Nirmala Rao, Kai-Ming Cheng and Kirti Narain
  • Cultural and school-grade differences in Korean and white American children's narrative skills / Meesook Kim
  • Childhood ideology in the United States : a comparative cultural view / Diane M. Hoffman
  • Social hierarchy and group solidarity : the meanings of work and vocation/profession in the Chinese context and their implications for vocational education / Barbara Schulte
  • What children have lost by the modernisation of education : a comparison of experiences in Western Europe and Eastern Asia / Hiroyuki Numata.