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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808634103321

Titolo

Post-socialism is not dead : (re)reading the global in comparative education / / edited by Iveta Silova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, UK, : Emerald, c2010

ISBN

1-282-96405-4

9786612964053

0-85724-418-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 p.)

Collana

International perspectives on education and society ; ; vol. 14

Disciplina

379.47

Soggetti

Comparative education

Education - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rediscovering post-socialism in comparative education / Iveta Silova -- Education after the fall of the Berlin Wall : the end of history or the beginning of histories? / Olga Bain -- Policy why(s) : policy rationalities and the changing logic of educational reform in postcommunist Ukraine / Olena Fimyar -- Visions of reform in post-socialist Romania : decentralizsation (through hybridization) and teacher autonomy / Monica E. Mincu, Irina Horga -- Rethinking transition through ideas of 'community' in Hungarian kindergarten curriculum / Zsuzsa Millei, Robert J. Imre -- A framework for understanding dramatic change : educational transformation in post-soviet Russia / Eleoussa Polyzoi, Eduard Dneprov -- The semblance of progress amidst the absence of change : educating for an imagined Europe in Moldova and Albania / Meg P. Gardinier, Elizabeth Anderson Worden -- Rewriting the nation : World War II narratives in Polish history textbooks / Magdalena Gross -- When intolerance means more than prejudice : challengs to Lithuanian education reforms for social tolerance / Christine Beresniova -- Transnational vitality of the Finno-Ugric identity in Estonia : the role of education and advocacy in a new geopolitical context / Kara D. Brown -- The reconfiguration of state-university-student relationships in post/socialist China / Heidi Ross, Ran Zhang, Wanxia Zhao -- Socialist, post-socialist, and post-post socialist transformations of



education in Nicaragua / Anita Sanyal -- Staying the (post)socialist course : global/local transformations and Cuban education / Noah W. Sobe, Renee N. Timberlake -- African socialism, post-colonial development, and education : change and continuity in the post-socialist era / Diane Brook Napier -- Beyond post-socialist conversions : functional cooperation and trans-regional regimes in the global south / Tavis D. Jules.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume will provide a comparative account of the meanings and processes of post-socialist transformations in education by exploring recent theories, concepts, and debates on post-socialism and globalization in national, regional, and international contexts.