Transitional states and states of transition
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Transitional states and states of transition
(Komparatistische Bibliothek = Comparative studies series = Bibliothèque d'études comparatives, Bd. 8 . Comparative perspectives on the role of education in democratization ; part 1)
Peter Lang, 1999
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
However important the school may be as a vehicle to institutionalize and perpetuate democracy, it has been largely ignored by contemporary scholars of democratization especially in developing and former socialist countries. This book draws on new research as well as established classics in helping to fill the gap and map out useful directions for comparative inquiry on the role of education in democratization and transitions from centralized authority.
Table of Contents
Contents: Noel F. McGinn: Education, Democratization, and Globalization: A Challenge for Comparative Education - Aaron Benavot: Education and Political Democratization: Cross-National and Longitudinal Findings - Matthew Christenson and Edward Crenshaw: Democracy's Handmaiden: The Influence of Mass Education on Political and Economic Change - Noel F. McGinn and Susan Street: Educational Decentralization: Weak State or Strong State? - E. Mark Hanson: Democratization and Decentralization in Colombian Education - Jim Carl: Parental Choice as National Policy in England and the United States - Joseph W. Elder: The De-Colonization of Educational Culture: The Case of India - Robert F. Lawson: The Evolution of Democratic Education in South Africa - Erwin H. Epstein: The Peril of Paternalism: The Imposition of Education on Cuba by the United States - Barry Sautman: Politicization, Hyperpoliticization, and Depoliticization of Chinese Education - Jonathan Jansen: The State and Curriculum in the Transition to Socialism: The Zimbabwean Experience - Sheryl L. Lutjens: Rectification, Participation, and Education in Cuba - Elena Lisovskaya: The Dogmatism of Ideology: Content Analysis of Communist and Postcommunist Russian Textbooks - Antoinette Errante: Regaining Sight of Democracy in Mozambique - Robert F. Arnove: Education as Contested Terrain in Nicaragua.
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