Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the LocalRobert F. Arnove, Carlos Alberto Torres, Stephen Franz Now in its fourth edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local remains the same groundbreaking book when it first debuted its collection of outstanding scholars in examining the changing transnational landscape of education. With the addition of new coeditor Stephen Franz, the book provides new perspectives on the dynamic interplay of global, national, and local forces as they shape the functions and outcomes of education systems. The book calls for a rethinking of the nation-state as the basic unit for analyzing school-society relations and emphasizes the need to study social movements in relation to educational reforms. It also emphasizes the value of feminist, postcolonial, and culturally sensitive perspectives for inquiry into the potential of education systems to contribute to individual development and social change. This new edition incorporates recent developments in scholarship, especially in education policy and practice, the impact of the global economic crisis, and a new chapter on education in the European Union. |
Contents
Reframing Comparative Education The Dialectic of the Global and the Local | 1 |
Comparative Education in an Era of Postmodernity and Globalization | 27 |
Chapter 02 Institutionalizing International Influence | 55 |
Chapter 03 The State Social Movements and Educational Reform | 89 |
Chapter 04 Culture and Education | 113 |
Chapter 05 The Question of Identity from a Comparative Education Perspective | 133 |
Six Decades of Comparative Evidence Seen from a New Millennium | 149 |
Chapter 07 Womens Education in the TwentyFirst Century | 175 |
Toward a Heteronomous Model? | 293 |
From Dependency and Neoliberalism to Alternative Paths to Development | 315 |
Some Enduring Challenges | 341 |
Chapter 14 Higher Education in the Middle East | 369 |
ReThinking PostSocialism in the Context of Globalization | 379 |
Not Catching Up but Setting the Pace | 403 |
Chapter 17 The Political Construction of European Education Space | 445 |
The Dialectics of Globalization and Its Discontents | 459 |
Issues and Tensions in Centralization and Decentralization | 201 |
Chapter 09 A Theory of Literacies for Considering the Role of Adult and Community Education in Postcolonial Change | 223 |
Chapter 10 The Political Economy of Educational Reform in Australia Britain and the United States | 247 |
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