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Cover -- PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION: A Comparative Approach -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PART ONE METHODOLOGY: The Problem Approach In Comparative Education -- Chapter I COMPARATIVE EDUCATION AND CULTURAL BORROWING -- Selective Cultural Borrowing -- Descriptive and Statistical Studies -- The Historical Approach -- The Sociological Approach -- Cultural Borrowing Today -- Chapter II A SCIENCE OF EDUCATION AND PLANNING -- Comparative Education and Post-relativity Science -- Assumptions of the Problem Approach -- Problem Selection and Analysis -- Formulation of Policy Proposals -- Identification of Relevant Factors -- Prediction: an Ingredient of Science and Planned Reform -- Interdisciplinary Co-operation -- Chapter III CRITICAL DUALISM AS A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- Critical Dualism -- The Construction of Normative Patterns -- 'Ideal' and 'Actual' Constructs -- Institutional Patterns -- Relationships and Explanatory Studies -- Multi-Relationship Studies -- Chapter IV CRITICAL DUALISM AND THE PROBLEM APPROACH -- Normative Inconsistencies -- Theory and Practice -- Institutional Innovation and Social Re-adjustment -- Concepts of Social Lag -- Data Relevant to Problem Anarysis and Proposed Solutions -- The Comparative Aspects of the Problem Approach -- INTRODUCTION -- PART TWO SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY -- Chapter V THE POLITICAL PROBLEM AND THE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE -- Lippmann's Anarysis -- The Educational Solution -- Newly Independent Nations -- The Role of Education and Political Unity -- Europe and the U.S.A -- The Explosion of Scientific Knowledge -- Democratic Participation and the Schools -- Chapter VI ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY -- Scales of Preference -- The Allocation of Resources -- Natural Resources and Capital -- Honest Government -- Social Organisation -- Education and Ideology.

SOCIETY AND INSTITUTIONS -- INDIVIDUALITY -- THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE -- Social Justice and Educational Expansion -- The Consequences oj Investment in Education -- Chapter VII ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEMS AND DECISION MAKING IN EDUCATION -- Centralised and Decentralised Systems of Administration -- Formal Organisations -- Administrative Reforms -- Moral and Professional Authority -- National Politics -- Informed Opinion -- The Situation in the U.S.A -- Bureaucracie -- Managerial Group Members -- The Inspectorate and Teachers -- Reform and the Type of Administration -- Parental Control -- INTRODUCTION -- PART THREE NATIONAL CASE STUDIES -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter VIII TEACHER TRAINING AND THE PROFESSION OF EDUCATION (THE U.S.A.) -- The 'Ideal' Teacher -- The Institutional Framework -- Professional Control -- Teacher Education in the U.S.A -- The Content of Teacher Education-U.S.A -- Certification Procedures -- Progressive Education and its Critics -- The Future -- Chapter IX SECONDARY EDUCATION FOR ALL (ENGLAND AND WALES) -- Heightened Expectations -- Economic Changes -- Parental Norms, Socio-political Theory, and Institutional Change -- A Rationale Jor the 1944 Act -- Educational Lag -- Political Theories and Educational Policy-The Labour Party -- The Second Decade-Conservative Party Policies -- The Comprehensive Schools -- The Prestige of the 'Public' Schools -- The Case of France -- Chapter X LIBERAL EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING (THE U.S.S.R.) -- Intellectual Education and Manual Training -- Basic Ideology and Expediency -- Sources of Inconsistencies -- Proposed Solutions-the Principles of Polytechnical Education -- Institutional Reform -- Debates and the New Approach -- Chapter XI INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (JAPAN) -- Moral Obligation and Human Feeling -- Selective Cultural Borrowing -- Administration -- Aims of Education.

The Normative Pattern -- Educational Reform in the Post-War Period -- Attachment to Traditions -- New Proposals for Reform -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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