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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783260503321

Titolo

Who's in charge here? [[electronic resource] ] : the tangled web of school governance and policy / / Noel Epstein, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Denver, : Education Commission of the States

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2004

ISBN

1-280-81304-0

9786610813049

0-8157-9665-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EpsteinNoel

Disciplina

379.1/531

Soggetti

School boards - United States

Education and state - 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

Introduction : who should be in charge of our schools? / Noel Epstein -- Turning points : a history of American school governance / Michael W. Kirst -- The Tenth Amendment and other paper tigers : the legal boundaries of education governance / James E. Ryan -- Recovering from an accident : repairing governance with comparative advantage  / Paul T. Hill -- A solution that lost its problem : centralized policymaking and classroom gains  / Larry Cuban -- Less than meets the eye : standards, testing, and fear of federal control / Susan H. Fuhrman -- A teacher supply policy for education : how to meet the "highly qualified teacher" challenge / Linda Darling-Hammond and Gary Sykes -- Multiple choice questions : the road ahead / Henry M. Levin -- The American kibbutz? : managing the school's family role / Noel Epstein.

Sommario/riassunto

This title makes sense of the United States system of school governance and considers where it might be heading. It discusses issues such as recruiting good teachers, school choice, the school's growing 'family ' role and who is, and who should be, responsible for schools and the consequences for the students.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967174703321

Autore

Prabhu Anjali

Titolo

Hybridity : limits, transformations, prospects / / Anjali Prabhu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007

ISBN

9780791480359

0791480356

9781429471442

1429471441

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies

Disciplina

840.9/96981

Soggetti

Reunionese literature (French) - History and criticism

Multiracial people in literature

Multiracial people - Psychology

Miscegenation (Racist theory)

Réunion Civilization

Mauritius Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hybridity in contemporary postcolonial theory : examining agency -- Hybridity in La Reunion : Monique Boyer's Metisse and the nation as necessity -- Theorizing hybridity : colonial and postcolonial La Reunion -- On the difficulty of articulating hybridity : africanness Mauritius nation -- Ethnicity and the fate of the nation : reading Mauritius -- Interrogating hybridity : subaltern agency and totality in postcolonial theory through Edouard Glissant's Poetique de la relation -- Frantz Fanon and hybridity : a closer look at narrative in Black skin, white masks -- Afterword : why hybridity now?

Sommario/riassunto

This critical engagement with some of the most prominent contemporary theorists of postcolonial studies reevaluates recent theories of hybridity and agency. Challenging the claim that hybridity provides a site of resistance to hegemonic and homogenizing forces in an increasingly globalized world, Anjali Prabhu pursues the ways in which hybridity plays out in the Creole, postcolonial societies of



Mauritius and La Réunion, two small islands in the Indian Ocean, and offers an introduction to the literature and culture of this lesser-known region of Francophonie. She also reconsiders two major theorists from the Francophone context, Edouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, through a provocatively Marxian framing that reveals these two writers shared more in common about agency and society than has previously been recognized.