Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local - Rilegato

Arnove, Robert F.; Torres, Carlos Alberto

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ISBN 10: 0742559858 ISBN 13: 9780742559851

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2007

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Comparative Education examines the common problems facing education systems around the world as the result of global economic, social, and cultural forces. Issues related to the governance, financing, provision, processes, and outcomes of education systems for differently situated social groups are described and analyzed in specific regional, national, and local contexts.

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Robert F. Arnove is Chancellor's Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is an Honorary Fellow and past president of the Comparative and International Education Society. His extensive writings on the politics of education and social and educational change include, Comparative Education (MacMillan, 1982), Emergent Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives (SUNY Press, 1992), and most recently, his authored book, Education as Contested Terrain: Nicaragua, 1979-1993 (Westview 1994). Carlos Alberto Torres is a professor of social sciences and comparative education at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Paulo Freire Institute. He is a past president of the Comparative and International Education Society and the Research Committee of Sociology of Education, International Sociological Association. The author of more than fifty books and articles, his most recent work includes, with Rowman & Littlefield, Critique and Utopia: New Developments in the Sociology of Education in the Twenty-First Century (2007), and Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism: Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World (1999).

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• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0742559858
• ISBN 13: 9780742559851
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 419