Comparative education : exploring issues in international context
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Comparative education : exploring issues in international context
Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall, c2007
2nd ed
- : pbk
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This is a core text for graduate-level Comparative Education courses.
With its cross-cultural, isues-oriented approach, Comparative Education introduces K-12 educational systems worldwide. Readers are invited to consider current educational issues both at home and abroad, while developing global perspectives and skills of comparative inquiry to use their own reflective classroom teaching.
Chapters on theory in compartive education, frameworks for analyzing educational issues, and globalization's implications for education explore several key issues in depth: purposes of schooling, educational access and opportunity, education accountability and authority, and teacher professionalism.
This book takes an issues-based approach rather than a country-based approach. A major purpose of this book is to widen the field of comparative education's influence by articulating the relevance of comparative education to include a larger, practitioner-oriented audience.
Table of Contents
PART I Comparative Education and Underlying Assumptions About Education: The Comparative Approach
Chapter 1 Comparative Education
Chapter 2 Theory in Comparative Education
PART II Education in International Context: A Comparative Approach Applied to Contemporary Educational Issues
Chapter 3 Purposes of Schooling
Chapter 4 Educational Access and Opportunity
Chapter 5 Education Accountability and Authority
Chapter 6 Teacher Professionalism
PART III Interpreting Educational Issues: Local-Global Comparison and the Use of Analytic Frameworks
Chapter 7 Applying Frameworks to Analyze Educational Issues
Chapter 8 Globalization and Implications for Education
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