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Comparative Education The Dialectic of the Global and the Local

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ISBN-10: 1442217766

ISBN-13: 9781442217768

Edition: 4th 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Carlos Alberto Torres, Stephen Franz, Robert F. Arnove

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List price: $39.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Robert F. Arnove, Chancellor's Professor Emeritus at Indiana University-Bloomington, is a leading scholar of comparative and international education. Winner of many distinguished teaching awards, he has been a visiting scholar at universities in countries ranging from Argentina to Australia. His interest in education and social change and his commitment to combining scholarship with public service have led him to be a teacher union president, a candidate for the U.S. Congress with Barry Commoner's Citizens Party, and the president of an experimental theater company.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reframing Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local
Technocracy, Uncertainty, and Ethics: Comparative Education in an Era of Postmodernity and Globalization
Institutionalizing International Influence
The State, Social Movements, and Educational Reform
Culture and Education
The Question of Identity from a Comparative Education Perspective
Equality of Education: Six Decades of Comparative Evidence Seen from a New Millennium
Women's Education in the Twenty-First Century
Control of Education: Issues and Tensions in Centralization and Decentralization
A Theory of Literacies for Considering the Role of Adult and Community Education in Postcolonial Change
The Political Economy of Educational Reform in Australia, Britain, and the United States
Higher Education in the Era of Globalization: Toward a Heteronomous Model?
Education in Latin America: From Dependency and Neoliberalism to Alternative Paths to Development
Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Some Enduring Challenges
Higher Education in the Middle East
Education in Eastern and Central Europe: Re-Thinking Post-Socialism in the Context of Globalization
Education for All in Africa: Not Catching Up, but Setting the Pace
The Political Construction of European Education Space
Comparative Education: The Dialectics of Globalization and Its Discontents
Index
About the Contributors