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  • Education, Recession and the World Village

    A Comparative Political Economy of Education

    Edited by Frederick M. Wirt, Grant Harman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, Education, Recession and the World Village explores the effects of world economic recession on the educational arrangements of eight modern nations including Hong Kong, Australia, US, Nigeria, UK, and China and just how nations adjust their educational systems to meet these pressures. The idea that the world is a ‘global village’ where what affects the fabric of one ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Reforming Higher Education in Vietnam

    Challenges and Priorities

    Edited by Grant Harman, Martin Hayden, Thanh Nghi Pham ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Vietnam is a dynamic member of the community of Southeast Asian nations. Consistent with aspirations across the region, it is seeking to develop its higher education system as rapidly as possible. Vietnam’s approach stands out, however, as being extremely ambitious. Indeed, it may be at risk of attempting to do too much too quickly. By 2020, for example, Vietnam expects its higher education system ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam

    by Bowen Paulle ...
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    Violent urban schools loom large in our culture: for decades they have served as the centerpieces of political campaigns and as window dressing for brutal television shows and movies. Yet unequal access to quality schools remains the single greatest failing of our society—and one of the most hotly debated issues of our time. Of all the usual words used to describe non-selective city schools ... Read more

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  • Prairie Town

    Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization

    by Jacqueline Edmondson ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context of the on-going farm crisis, NAFTA, neoliberal agricultural policies, and growing agribusiness ... Read more

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  • University Governance and Reform

    Policy, Fads, and Experience in International Perspective

    Edited by H. Schuetze, W. Bruneau, G. Grosjean ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The fascination with the commercial value of research, coupled with the rise of neo-liberal 'new public management' in the public sector, has led to the rise of a managerial class in the university. These essays focus on the widespread use of business models and market principles that have undermined the autonomy of the professoriate. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Handbook of Comparative Education Law

    Selected Asian Nations, Volume 2

    Edited by Charles J. Russo ...
    Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and educationIn examining law and education in various countries around the world. Designed to allow readers to learn from, rather than copy, the legal and educational systems in these volumes, the books are designed to generate thought and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

    Working towards Decolonization, Indigeneity and Interculturalism

    Edited by Fatima Pirbhai-Illich, Shauneen Pete, Fran Martin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book convincingly argues that effective culturally responsive pedagogies require teachers to firstly undertake a critical deconstruction of Self in relation to and with the Other; and secondly, to take into account how power affects the socio-political, cultural and historical contexts in which the education relation takes place. The contributing authors are from a range of diaspora, ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • The Finnish Education Mystery

    Historical and sociological essays on schooling in Finland

    by Hannu Simola ...
    Finnish education has been a focus of global interest since its first PISA success in 2001. After years of superficial celebration, astonishment and educational tourism, the focus has recently shifted to what is possibly the most interesting element of this Finnish success story: that Finnish schools have been effectively applying methods that go against the flow of global education policy with no ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence

    A Worlded Philosophy

    by Carl Mika ...
    Series series New Directions in the Philosophy of Education
    Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called ‘worldedness’ that sits at the core of indigenous philosophy. This is the idea that any one thing is constituted by all others and is, therefore, educational to the extent that it is formational. A suggested opposite of this indigenous philosophy is the metaphysics of presence, which ... Read more

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  • Debating Single-Sex Education

    Separate and Equal?

    by Frances R. Spielhagen ...
    Debating Single Sex Education: Separate and Equal, 2nd edition, provides a balanced summary of the context, concerns, and findings about single sex education in 21st Century United States.Few school reforms have engendered as much controversy as single sex public education.This book examines the history of single-sex classes and legislation that has over time evolved to render the reform legal, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Learning in Morocco

    Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream

    by Charis Boutieri ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently. In recent years, national policies to promote the use of Arabic have come into conflict with the ... Read more

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  • Policy Discourses in Malaysian Education

    A nation in the making

    Edited by Suseela Malakolunthu, Nagappan C. Rengasamy ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
    Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has become a globally-recognised industrial trading partner. With a 60% Muslim population, it also enjoys the reputation of being a moderate and peaceful nation. However, with just a short time left to realising its Vision 2020 of developed nationhood, the pathway of nation building still seems ambiguous. There is a brewing tension in its race and ethnic ... Read more

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