Problems in education : a comparative approach / / by Brian Holmes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819262703321
• Autore: Holmes Brian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxfordshire, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2011; ©1965
• ISBN: 1-135-03425-7; 0-203-70944-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Collana: The International Library of Sociology : The Sociology of Education ; ; Volume XIX
• Disciplina: 370.195
• Soggetti: Comparative education - History; School management and organization - United States
• 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: ""Cover""; ""PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION: A Comparative Approach""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""PART ONE METHODOLOGY: The Problem Approach In Comparative Education""; ""Chapter I COMPARATIVE EDUCATION AND CULTURAL BORROWING""; ""Selective Cultural Borrowing""; ""Descriptive and Statistical Studies""; ""The Historical Approach""; ""The Sociological Approach""; ""Cultural Borrowing Today""; ""Chapter II A SCIENCE OF EDUCATION AND PLANNING""; ""Comparative Education and Post-relativity Science""; ""Assumptions of the Problem Approach""; ""Problem Selection and Analysis""; ""Formulation of Policy Proposals""""Identification of Relevant Factors""; ""Prediction: an Ingredient of Science and Planned Reform""; ""Interdisciplinary Co-operation""; ""Chapter III CRITICAL DUALISM AS A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK""; ""Critical Dualism""; ""The Construction of Normative Patterns""; ""'Ideal' and 'Actual' Constructs""; ""Institutional Patterns""; ""Relationships and Explanatory Studies""; ""Multi-Relationship Studies""; ""Chapter IV CRITICAL DUALISM AND THE PROBLEM APPROACH""; ""Normative Inconsistencies""; ""Theory and Practice""; ""Institutional Innovation and Social Re-adjustment""""Concepts of Social Lag""; ""Data Relevant to Problem Anarysis and Proposed ; Solutions""; ""The Comparative Aspects of the Problem Approach""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART TWO SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY""; ""Chapter V THE POLITICAL PROBLEM AND THE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE""; ""Lippmann's Anarysis""; ""The Educational Solution""; ""Newly Independent Nations""; ""The Role of Education and Political Unity""; ""Europe and the U.S.A""; ""The Explosion of Scientific Knowledge""; ""Democratic Participation and the Schools""; ""Chapter VI ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY""""Scales of Preference""; ""The Allocation of Resources""; ""Natural Resources and Capital""; ""Honest Government""; ""Social Organisation""; ""Education and Ideology""; ""SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONS""; ""INDIVIDUALITY""; ""THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE""; ""Social Justice and Educational Expansion""; ""The Consequences oj Investment in Education""; ""Chapter VII ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEMS AND DECISION MAKING IN EDUCATION""; ""Centralised and Decentralised Systems of Administration""; ""Formal Organisations""; ""Administrative Reforms""; ""Moral and Professional Authority""""National Politics""; ""Informed Opinion""; ""The Situation in the U.S.A""; ""Bureaucracie""; ""Managerial Group Members""; ""The Inspectorate and Teachers""; ""Reform and the Type of Administration""; ""Parental Control""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PART THREE NATIONAL CASE STUDIES""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Chapter VIII TEACHER TRAINING AND THE PROFESSION OF EDUCATION (THE U.S.A.)""; ""The 'Ideal' Teacher""; ""The Institutional Framework""; ""Professional Control""; ""Teacher Education in the U.S.A""; ""The Content of Teacher Educationâ€?U.S.A""; ""Certification Procedures""