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  • Constructing Education for Development

    International Organizations and Education for All

    Series series Reference Books In International Education
    Recent research has advanced the understanding of how global processes have led to standardized ideas about modern schooling. Chabbott provides an insightful examination of how the processes of international development have effected the role of education at a global level since World War II. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Institutionalizing Health and Education for All

    Global Goals, Innovations, and Scaling Up

    Series series International Perspectives in Educational Reform Series
    Health for All and Education for All have been rallying cries for a host of international development activities for more than a quarter century. Where did these global goals come from? Why have the health goals seemingly advanced so much faster than those in education? In this book, author Colette Chabbott explores the foundational role that international development organizations and the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development

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    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series
    How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Private Authority

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  • Comparative and International Education

    An Introduction to Theory, Method, and Practice

    This revised and updated second edition of Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the key themes, definitions and approaches in this important field. It covers the history, theory, and methods of comparative and international education, as well as the relationship with education and national ... Read more

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  • Education and Society in Post-Mao China

    Series series Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia
    The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to the country’s education system. This book analyses the development of that system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of ‘Reform and Opening’ in the late 1970s.The principal focus is on formal education in schools and ... Read more

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  • Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics

    Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines

    The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic polity and one of the few countries in Asia with a vibrant and dynamic civil society sector. ... Read more

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  • Characterizing Pedagogical Flow

    An Investigation of Mathematics and Science Teaching in Six Countries

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    Characterizing Pedagogical Flow presents conclusions from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research project blending quantitative and qualitative approaches through a discourse methodology. The work produced portraits of mathematics and science education that were dramatically different for each of the countries involved: France, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. To ... Read more

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  • Reforms and Innovation in Education

    Implications for the Quality of Human Capital

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  • Education for Civic and Political Participation

    A Critical Approach

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
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    International Exemplars for Practice, Policy and Research

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    This book focuses on special organizational configurations for schools in diverse parts of the world. Some of these new organizational and institutional designs are called multi-service schools, others are called extended service schools and still others are called community learning centers. While these schools have different names and notable different characteristics, they belong in the same ... Read more

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