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Education around the world : a comparative introduction / Colin Brock and Nafsika Alexiadou

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Brock, Colin
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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Physical Description
ix, 205 pages ; 24 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Why it is Important: The Story so far -- What is education for? -- Why is education around the world so comparable? -- The emergence of comparative education -- International education -- 2.The Nature of the Interdisciplinary Field and its Development -- Introduction -- The nature of education: An interdisciplinary field -- Factors and sub-disciplines -- Dramatis personae -- Continuing the story of comparative education -- Comparative and international education today -- Conclusion -- 3.A Global Overview: Legacies and Inertias -- Education institutions and complexity -- Global convergence of education policies and practices -- How can this be explained? -- Policy reception and selective adaptation -- The international policy problem of `inclusion' -- 4.Scale, Space and Place with Reference to The United States of America and The World of Small States -- Introduction -- Scale and comparative education enquiry -- The case of the USA -- The world of the small states -- Conclusion -- 5.National and International Educational Development -- Introduction -- Human capital theory -- Modernization and development -- The Washington Consensus -- Problems and issues -- 6.Europe: Issues and Comparisons -- Introduction -- The European and the national in education -- Building a European area of education -- 7.Sub-Saharan Africa: Legacies and Innovations -- Introduction -- Cultural and colonial legacies -- Education colonialism and conflict in sub-Saharan Africa -- Post-conflict realities and responses -- Gender, education and development -- Teachers as change agents in sub-Saharan Africa -- Tertiary education, ICT and sustainable survival -- Conclusion -- 8.Rising Stars: Brazil, Russia, India and The People's Republic of China (The BRIC States) -- Introduction -- Transition, modernization and reform -- Educational inequality and poverty -- Higher education and development -- Conclusion.
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9781441169402 (pbk.)
1441169407 (pbk.)
9781441105011 (hardcover)
1441105018 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2012
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Paterno Libraries Endowment
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