The Politics of Education: Challenging Multiculturalism - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1138021865 ISBN 13: 9781138021860

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014

Riassunto

Education is a thoroughly political enterprise. The process of determining the purpose of education has always been highly controversial. It has resulted in disputes that have not only divided people philosophically, but also on the basis of religion, region, class, race, and ethnicity. As a result, education provides us with a spectacular arena in which to explore the tensions inherent in European and North American societies, as well as an understanding of how current politics shape education policy.

This book focuses on the politics of education, relating to the formation of national identities as affected by globalization and multiculturalism. It assesses the ways in which governance institutions, political ideologies and competing interests, both within and outside of the education community, influence the content, form, and functioning of education. As a collection of studies of the political aspects of education and educational policy-making, this book reaffirms that educational phenomena reflect and inevitably serve specific political agendas. Political scientists, sociologists and education scholars will find this to be an important and valuable text.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Marios Vryonides is Assistant Professor at the European University Cyprus.

Christos Kassimeris is Chairman of the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the European University Cyprus.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1138021865
• ISBN 13: 9781138021860
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 202
• Redattore: Kassimeris Christos, Vryonides Marios
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania