Enterprise and welfare reform in communist Asia / / editors, Peter Ferdinand and Martin Gainsborough

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961519603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Portland, OR, : Frank Cass, 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-75860-3; 0-203-00532-5; 1-135-75861-1; 1-280-17532-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (133 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FerdinandPeter; GainsboroughMartin <1966->
• Disciplina: 338.095/09171/7
• Soggetti: Economic assistance - Asia; Economic assistance, Russian - Asia; Communism - Asia; Capitalism - Asia; Mixed economy - Asia; Industrial policy - Asia; Business enterprises - Government policy - Asia; Public welfare - Asia; Asia Commercial policy Case studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This group of studies first appeared in a special issue ... of The journal of communist studies and transition politics (ISSN 1352-3279) 19/1 (March 2003) published by Frank Cass"--Verso t.p.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Fluctuating Institutions of Enterprise Management in North Korea: Prospects for Local Enterprise Reform; Pragmatism in the Face of Adversity: Enterprise Reform in Laos; Slow, Quick, Quick: Assessing Equitization and Enterprise Performance Prospects in Vietnam; Entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam as Strategic Players in Social and Political Change; China's Social Security Reforms and the Comparative Politics of Market Transition; Trade Unionism in China: Sinking or Swimming?; Abstracts; ; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Featuring a wide geographical scope, this collection of essays surveys enterprise and welfare reforms in all the remaining four Asian communist states: China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union they can no longer place major reliance upon assistance from other 'fraternal' states and have to devise their own strategies for survival. All have shown a trend towards greater reliance on market forces, though in different ways and to varying degrees. Enterprise management has to adapt to this. In some of them entrepreneurs have become politically and socially accep

Changing schools : alternative approaches to make a world of difference / / edited by Terry Wrigley, Pat Thomson and Bob Lingard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974190803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-73451-1; 1-136-73452-X; 9786613460943; 1-283-46094-7; 0-203-81820-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Classificazione: EDU000000EDU034000EDU037000
• Altri autori (Persone): LingardBob; ThomsonPat <1948->; WrigleyTerry
• Disciplina: 371.2/07
• Soggetti: School improvement programs; Critical pedagogy
• 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: Changing Schools Alternative ways to make a world of difference; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acnowledgements; Chapter1 Reimagining school change: the necessity ; and reasons for hope; Chapter2 Making a difference through philosophy: Australia; Chapter3 Development processes in a laboratory school: Germany; Chapter4 Curriculum development and thematic learning: Norway; Chapter5 Educating in the margins, lessons for the mainstream: Australia; Chapter6 Reflections of an Aboriginal school principal on leading change in an Aboriginal school: Australia; Chapter7 Pedagogy of the landless: BrazilChapter8 The promise of place- and community-based education: United States; Chapter9 Approaching school change through 'learning lives': Norway; Chapter10 Storythread pedagogy for environmental education: Australia; Chapter11 Creative learning in an inner-city primary school: England; Chapter12 Talking honestly in a challenging primary school: England; Chapter13 Weaving the web of professional practice: Australia; Chapter14 A fair go for students in poverty: Australia; Chapter15 Using critical mathematics to understand the conditions of our lives: United StatesChapter16 Resources for changing schools: ideas in and for practice; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "The raising of standards in schools is a global challenge to policy-makers. To overcome it means to remove the ongoing influence of poverty on school success. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented environmental and cultural challenges, the education of all children and young people to higher levels has become a key issue of international policy.This book presents new thinking and practice for progressing school change today, drawn from the works of authors around the world. Educational policy-making has been dominated by particular human capital oriented theories of school improvement, formulated and implemented in neo-liberal political environments. This book seeks to challenge this dominance. It draws both on contemporary innovations in practice and theory and long standing traditions of alternative thinking and practice. Linking together and articulating other ways of conceiving of and implementing school change, it bases its findings on values of equality and global citizenship. It shows how schools can work to make different knowledges, languages, narratives, truths and ways of being integral to mainstream curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and school cultures and structures.The book is directed at all who are concerned with progressive school change and the promotion of democratic citizenship and social justice. This will include education students, those currently studying for school leadership positions, heads, teachers and policy-makers"-- Provided by publisher.