Emergent Issues in Education : Comparative Perspectives.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (182 pages)
- SUNY Series, Frontiers in Education Series .
- SUNY Series, Frontiers in Education Series .
Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION by ROBERT F. ARNOVE, PHILIP G. ALTBACH and GAIL P. KELLY -- PART I: TRENDS IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION -- 1. Debates and Trends in Comparative Education by GAIL P. KELLY -- PART II: WORLD TRENDS IN EDUCATION -- 2. Compulsory Schooling in the Western Cultural Context by JOHN BOLI and FRANCISCO O. RAMIREZ -- 3. Patterns in Higher Education Development: Toward the Year 2000 by PHILIP G. ALTBACH -- 4. Donor Agencies and Third World Educational Development, 1945-1985 by EDWARD H. BERMAN -- 5. Modernization without Westernization: Assessing the Chinese Educational Experience by RUTH HAYHOE -- 6. The Neo-Conservative Paradigm: Recent Changes in Eastern Europe by TAMAS KOZMA -- PART III: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS -- 7. Conceptualizing Education and the Drive for Social Equality by Joseph P. Farrell -- 8. Conceptualizing the Role of Education in the Economy by PETER EASTON and STEVEN KLEES -- 9. Education and the State: From Adam Smith to Perestroika by MARTIN CARNOY -- PART IV: CONTEMPORARY REFORM MOVEMENTS AND EMERGENT ISSUES -- 10. Reforming Educational Governance: Centralization/Decentralization by NOEL F. McGINN -- 11. Public and Private Sectors in Education in India by JANDHYALA B. G. TILAK -- 12. Comparing National Systems of Secondary School Leaving Examinations by HAROLD J. NOAH and MAX A. ECKSTEIN -- 13. A Cross-National Study of Teachers by HARRY JUDGE -- 14. Education Reform in Britain and the United States by MIRIAM DAVID -- 15. Effective Schools in Comparative Focus by HENRY M. LEVIN -- PART V: ASSESSING THE OUTCOMES OF REFORMS -- 16. Policy Impact of IEA Research by TORSTEN HUSÉN -- 17. Education, Women, and Change by GAIL P. KELLY -- 18. National Literacy Campaigns in Historical and Comparative Perspective: Legacies, Lessons, and Issues by ROBERT F. ARNOVE and HARVEY J. GRAFF -- NOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2. Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.