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Titolo: | Third World education : quality and equality / / edited by Anthony R. Welch |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Garland Pub., 2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina: | 370/.9172/4 |
Soggetto topico: | Education - Developing countries |
Educational equalization - Developing countries | |
Academic achievement - Developing countries | |
Altri autori: | WelchAnthony R |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Quality and Equality in Third World Education; The Tension Between Quantity and Quality in Nicaraguan Education; The Struggle to Achieve Quality: A Case Study of Palestinian Education; The Mirror of China: Questions of Quality and Equality; Reflections upon Issues of Class and Inequality in Chinese Education; Education and Mutuality; An Action Perspective; ~Post Marxist~ Discourse and the Rethinking of Third World Education Reform; Qualifications, Quality, and Equality: A Political Economy of Sri Lankan Education 1971 1993 |
The Search for Quality and Equality: The Case of Papua New GuineaThe State, Adult Literacy Policy, and Inequality in Botswana; The Struggle for Quality and Equality in Iranian Education: Problems, Progress, and Prospects; Biographies; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book debunks the argument that quality in education can only be achieved by limiting, or trading off, equality. The quality of schooling is a major issue for Third World nations across the globe. However there is no single measure which is universally accepted. Whether it is, as some economists might argue, an issue of the number of desks per classroom or one of national sovereignty is widely disputed. Defining equality in education becomes increasingly difficult in an era of globalization in which there exists a wide gap between rich and poor, both within and between nations. In the cont |
Titolo autorizzato: | Third World education |
ISBN: | 1-135-58262-9 |
1-135-58263-7 | |
1-280-40740-9 | |
0-203-90508-3 | |
0-203-90632-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815489003321 |
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