Contemporary Perspectives in Comparative Education

by Burns, Robin J.; Welch, Anthony R.

• ISBN13: 9780824096038
• ISBN10: 0824096037
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-03-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Privatisation and Education Crisis in Comparative Perspective	p. 3
Knowledge, Culture, and Power: Educational Knowledge and Legitimation in Comparative Education	p. 35
Comparative Education Redefined?	p. 69
Education in the Third World: Present Realities and Future Prospects	p. 87
The Formation of Third World Technocrats for Rural Development: A Critical Perspective on Australia's Role in Study Abroad	p. 115
Education and Developing Countries: A Framework for Analysis	p. 151
Collaborative Research, Ethnography and Comparative and International Education in the South Pacific	p. 171
Comparison and the Limits of Comparison in Working Toward Non-Sexist Education	p. 193
Schooling and the Imperial Transformation of Gender: A Post-Structuralist Approach to the Study of Schooling in Bali, Indonesia	p. 223
Empowering Women Through Knowledge: International Support for Nonformal Education	p. 265
Education and Cultural Reproduction in India: A Content Analysis of Selected Textbooks	p. 295
Ethnic Diversity and Multicultural Education	p. 327
School and Work in the Philippines: Is the Cost Too High?	p. 363
Learning and Employment: A Perspective of Lifelong Change	p. 385
Epilogue	p. 401
Index	p. 417
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