Emergent Issues in Education [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454858303321
• Autore: Arnove Robert F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, 1992
• ISBN: 0-7914-9531-0; 0-585-05979-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): AltbachPhilip G; KellyGail P
• Disciplina: 370.19/5
• Soggetti: Comparative education; Education and state; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION by ROBERT F. ARNOVE, PHILIP G. ALTBACH and GAIL P. KELLY; PART I: TRENDS IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION; 1. Debates and Trends in Comparative Education by GAIL P. KELLY; PART II: WORLD TRENDS IN EDUCATION; 2. Compulsory Schooling in the Western Cultural Context by JOHN BOLI and FRANCISCO O. RAMIREZ; 3. Patterns in Higher Education Development: Toward the Year 2000 by PHILIP G. ALTBACH; 4. Donor Agencies and Third World Educational Development, 1945-1985 by EDWARD H. BERMAN; 5. Modernization without Westernization: Assessing the Chinese Educational Experience by RUTH HAYHOE; 6. The Neo-Conservative Paradigm: Recent Changes in Eastern Europe by TAMAS KOZMAPART III: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS; 7. Conceptualizing Education and the Drive for Social Equality by Joseph P. Farrell; 8. Conceptualizing the Role of Education in the Economy by PETER EASTON and STEVEN KLEES; 9. Education and the State: From Adam Smith to Perestroika by MARTIN CARNOY; PART IV: CONTEMPORARY REFORM MOVEMENTS AND EMERGENT ISSUES; 10. Reforming Educational Governance: Centralization/Decentralization by NOEL F. McGINN; 11. Public and Private Sectors in Education in India by JANDHYALA B. G. TILAK; 12. Comparing National Systems of Secondary School Leaving Examinations by HAROLD J. NOAH and MAX A. ECKSTEIN 13. A Cross-National Study of Teachers by HARRY JUDGE; 14. Education Reform in Britain and the United States by MIRIAM DAVID; 15. Effective Schools in Comparative Focus by HENRY M. LEVIN; PART V: ASSESSING THE OUTCOMES OF REFORMS; 16. Policy Impact of IEA Research by TORSTEN HUSÉN; 17. Education, Women, and Change by GAIL P. KELLY; 18. National Literacy Campaigns in Historical and Comparative Perspective: Legacies, Lessons, and Issues by ROBERT F. ARNOVE and HARVEY J. GRAFF; NOTES