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  • Higher Education in Latin America and the Challenges of the 21st Century

    Edited by Simon Schwartzman ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents an overview of the region with one of the fastest growing higher education sectors in the world. Until the beginning of the 1980s, universities were restricted to the elites in Latin American countries, with less than 5 million students enrolled in its courses. In the last four decades, however, the region went through a boom of higher education institutions and now has more ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Education in South America

    by Dr Colin Brock, Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education Around the World
    Education in South America is a critical reference guide to development of education in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The chapters, written by local experts, provide an overview of the education system in each country, focusing particularly on policies and implementation of reforms. Key themes include quality and access, multicultural ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The New Production of Knowledge

    The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies

    by Helga Nowotny, Simon Schwartzman, Peter Scott, Martin Trow, Michael Gibbons, Camille Limoges ...
    In this provocative and broad-ranging work, the authors argue that the ways in which knowledge - scientific, social and cultural - is produced are undergoing fundamental changes at the end of the twentieth century. They claim that these changes mark a distinct shift into a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Higher Education in the BRICS Countries

    Investigating the Pact between Higher Education and Society

    Edited by Simon Schwartzman, Rómulo Pinheiro, Pundy Pillay ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In spite of the increasing attention attributed to the rise in prominence of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries, few studies have looked at the ways in which broader social expectations with respect to the role of higher education across the BRICS have changed, or not, in recent years. Our point of departure is that, contrary to the conventional wisdom focusing on ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education as a Humanitarian Response
    Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine provides an overview of education response – what it is and how it can be improved in relation to one of the more persistent issues globally. Poverty, famine and/or malnutrition exist in variant degrees among developing and developed nations and the issue figures prominently in international development. This book provides a global overview of education ... Read more

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  • Linguistic Imperialism Continued

    by Robert Phillipson ...
    This volume brings together key writings since the 1992 publication of Linguistic Imperialism – Robert Phillipson’s controversial benchmark volume, which triggered a major re-thinking of the English teaching profession by connecting the field to wider political and economic forces. Analyzing how the global dominance of English in all domains of power is maintained, legitimized and persists in the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Education in South-East Asia

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education Around the World
    Education in South-East Asia is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in South East Asia. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The diverse range and forms of ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Contentious Curricula

    Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools

    by Amy Binder ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements.Amy Binder gives a brief history of both movements and then describes how ... Read more

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  • The Critical Global Educator

    Global citizenship education as sustainable development

    by Maureen Ellis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige. A rich philosophical and theoretical tradition does however exist. This book synthesises crucial concepts from Critical Realism, Critical Social Theory, Critical Discourse Studies, neuro-, psycho-, ... Read more

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  • Anthropologies of Education

    A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling

    Edited by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt ...
    Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world. Linguistic barriers constrain the flow of ideas, which results in a vast amount of research on educational anthropology that is not published in English or is difficult for international readers to find. This volume responds to the call to attend to educational research ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Education in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

    by Dr Colin Brock ...
    Series series Education Around the World
    Education in Eastern Europe and Eurasia provides an essential reference resource to education development and key education issues in the region. Academics and researchers working closely in the field cover education and educational development in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Israel. Each chapter provides an overview of the development of education in ... Read more

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  • The Genetic Code of All Languages,(Part 2.1; Numerals)

    by Moni Kanchan Panda ...
    There are separate set of numerals in different languages to represent numerals from 1 to 9. 'The Genetic Code of All Languages,' works on explaining the reason behind choosing a particular name and symbol for each of them. ... Read more

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