TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arnove,Robert F.
AU  - Torres,Carlos Alberto
AU  - Franz,Stephen
TI  - Comparative education: the dialectic of the global and local 
SN  - 9781442217768
AV  - LB 43 .C738 2013
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Lanham, MD
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - Comparative education
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Education and globalization
KW  - Education
KW  - sears
KW  - Globalization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : reframing comparative education : the dialectic of the global and the local / Robert F. Arnove -- Technocracy, uncertainty, and ethics : comparative education in an era of postmodernity and globalization / Anthony Welch -- Institutionalizing international influence / Joel Samoff -- The state, social movements, and educational reform / Raymond A. Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres -- Culture and education / Vandra Lea Masemann -- The question of identity from a comparative education perspective / Christine Fox -- Equality of education : a half-century of comparative evidence seen from a new millennium / Joseph P. Farrell -- Women's education in the twenty-first century : balance and prospects / Nelly P. Stromquist -- Control of education : issues and tensions in centralization and decentralization / Mark Bray -- Beyond schooling : the role of adult and community education in postcolonial change / Anne Hickling-Hudson -- The political economy of educational reform in Australia, England, and the United States / Edward H. Berman ... [et al.] -- Higher education restructuring in the era of globalization : toward a heteronomous model? / Daniel Schugurensky -- Education in Latin America : dependency, underdevelopment, and inequality / Robert Arnove, Stephen Franz, and Carlos Alberto Torres -- Education in Asia : globalization and its effects / John N. Hawkins -- Education in the Middle East : challenges and opportunities / Rachel Christina with Golnar Mehran and Shabana Mir -- Russia and Eastern Europe / Maria Bucur and Ben Eklof -- Education for all in Africa : still a distant dream / Joel Samoff with Bidemi Carrol -- Comparative education : the dialectics of globalization and its discontents / Carlos Alberto Torres
N2  - A collection of essays exploring the field of comparative and international education, the interplay of global, national, and local forces and their impact on education systems, the nation-state as a unit for examining school-society relations, and the value of feminist, postcolonial, and culturally sensitive perspectives
ER  -