Comparative Education : The Dialectic of the Global and the Local

by Arnove, Robert F.; Torres, Carlos Alberto

• ISBN13: 9780742523814
• ISBN10: 0742523810
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

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. New in this edition is a concluding chapter by Carlos Torres indicating the current challenges and new directions for scholarship and teaching in comparative education. Chapters discussing the United States', Latin American, Middle Eastern, Russian/East European, and African education have been updated to reflect the changes in these regions and new educational trends and politics. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Robert F. Arnove is Professor of Comparative Education and Coordinator of the doctoral program in Education Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. He is Vice-President/President-Elect of the Comparative and International Education Society Edward H. Berman is recently retired from his position as Professor of Education, University of Louisville Mark Bray is Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. He is also Assistant Secretary General of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and in 1998 was elected President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong Maria Bucur is Assistant Professor of History and John W. Hill Chair of East European History at Indiana University, Bloomington Rachel Christina is a doctoral student in the Education Policy Studies Program of Indiana University, Bloomington Ben Eklof is Associate Professor of Russian History and Director of the Institute for the Study of Russian Education, Indiana University, Bloomington Joseph P. Farrell is a Professor in the Comparative, International, and Development Education Centre of the Ontario Institute for Studies, University of Toronto. He is a past President of the Comparative and International Education Society Christine Fox is Senior Lecturer and Director of Primary Education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia Stephen Franz is a doctoral student in the Education Policy Studies Program of Indiana University, Bloomington Anne Hickling-Hudson is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society Vandra Masemann, an independent consultant living in Toronto, Canada, is Secretary General of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies. She is a past President of the Comparative and International Education Society Golnar Mehran is Lecturer in the School of Education, Al-Zahra University, Tehran Shabana Mir is a doctoral student in Education Policy Studies at Indiana Unversity, Bloomington, and an Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University Marcela Mollis is Professor of Comparative Education and History of Education, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Raymond Morrow is Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton Joel Samoff is Consulting Professor at the Center for African Studies, Stanford University Daniel Schugurensky is Assistant Professor in the Department of Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Nelly Stromquist is a Professor in the School of Education, the University of Southern California. She is a past President of the Comparative and International Education Society Justine Zhixin Su is Professor of Education and Director of the China Institute at California State University, Northridge Carlos Alberto Torres is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Director of the Latin American Center, the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a past President of the Comparative and International Education Society Anthony R. Welch is an Associate Professor in the School of Social and Policy Studies in Education, the University of Sydney, Australia

Table of Contents

Introduction: Reframing Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local	1	(23)
Robert F. Arnove
1 Technocracy, Uncertainty, and Ethics: Comparative Education in an Era of Postmodernity and Globalization	24	(28)
Anthony Welch
2 Institutionalizing International Influence	52	(40)
Joel Samoff
3 The State, Social Movements, and Educational Reform	92	(23)
Raymond A. Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres
4 Culture and Education	115	(18)
Vandra Lea Masemann
5 The Question of Identity from a Comparative Education Perspective	133	(13)
Christine Fox
6 Equality of Education: A Half-Century of Comparative Evidence Seen from a New Millenium	146	(30)
Joseph P. Farrell
7 Women's Education in the Twenty-First Century: Balance and Prospects	176	(28)
Nelly P. Stromguist
8 Control of Education: Issues and Tensions in Centralization and Decentralization	204	(25)
Mark Bray
9 Beyond Schooling: Adult Education in Postcolonial Societies	229	(23)
Anne Hickling-Hudson
10 The Political Economy of Educational Reform in Australia, England and Wales, and the United States	252	(40)
Edward H. Berman with Simon Marginson, Rosemary Preston, B. Edward McClellan, and Robert F. Arnove
11 Higher Education Restructuring in the Era of Globalization: Toward a Heteronomous Model?	292	(21)
Daniel Schugurensky
12 Education in Latin America: Dependency, Underdevelopment, and Inequality	313	(25)
Robert F Arnove, Stephen Franz, Marcela Mollis, and Carlos Alberto Torres
13 Asian Education	338	(19)
John N Hawkins and Zhixin Su
14 Education in the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities	357	(27)
Rachel Christina with Golnar Mehran and Shabana Mir
15 Russia and Eastern Europe	384	(25)
Maria Bucur and Ben Eklof
16 No Teacher Guide, No Textbooks, No Chairs: Contending with Crisis in African Education	409	(37)
Joel Samoff
17 Comparative Education: The Dialectics of Globalization and Its Discontents	446	(17)
Carlos Alberto Torres
Index	463	(26)
About the Contributors	489