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History Education and National Identity in East Asia
Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant...ISBN: 978-0-415-94808-1 | Published June 5th 2005 by Routledge.
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Quranic Schools
Agents of Preservation and Change
ISBN: 978-0-415-94635-3 | Published August 27th 2004 by Routledge.
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The Six Nation Education Research Project
This book covers the seven-year project involving China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US, to show how collaborative research can help expand worldwide knowledge...ISBN: 978-0-415-94933-0 | Published August 10th 2004 by Routledge.
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Postfoundational Ideas and Applications for Critical Times
The original essays included here, by up and coming scholars in the field, illustrate the potential and diversity of post-foundational ideas as applied to comparative...ISBN: 978-0-415-94817-3 | Published March 16th 2004 by Routledge.
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Inside Japanese Classrooms
The Heart of Education
This detailed ethnographic study of fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms offers new insights into Japanese culture, as many aspects of daily social life are embedded in...ISBN: 978-0-8153-2115-6 | Published October 30th 2003 by Routledge.
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Crisis and Hope
The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America
This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the...ISBN: 978-0-415-93535-7 | Published September 12th 2003 by Routledge.
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Development Education in Japan
A Comparative Analysis of the Contexts for Its Emergence, and Its Introduction into the Japanese School System
ISBN: 978-0-415-93436-7 | Published May 9th 2003 by Routledge.
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Daughters of the Tharu
Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls
This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the...ISBN: 978-0-415-93467-1 | Published April 30th 2003 by Routledge.
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Constructing Education for Development
International Organizations and Education for All
Recent research has advanced the understanding of how global processes have led to standardized ideas about modern schooling. Chabbott provides an insightful examination of how...ISBN: 978-0-8153-3829-1 | Published November 22nd 2002 by Routledge.
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Professional Development in Science Teacher Education
Local Insight with Lessons for the Global Community
This book explores global issues in the professional development of science teachers, and considers classroom applications of teacher training with a comparative lens. The twelve...ISBN: 978-0-8153-3912-0 | Published May 24th 2002 by Routledge.
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Hegemonies Compared
State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong
This book explores the impact of cultural identity, the internal configurations of the educational field, and the struggles both inside and outside the educational systems...ISBN: 978-0-415-93313-1 | Published April 24th 2002 by Routledge.
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Case Studies Across Six Societies
This book examines the approach to civic education in six societies located on the Pacific Rim: Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and the US....ISBN: 978-0-415-93213-4 | Published March 29th 2002 by Routledge.
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Teaching in Japan
This collection of essays explores teaching in Japan as it relates to contemporary social change in the past two decades. The collection explores day-to-day teaching...ISBN: 978-0-8153-3512-2 | Published January 2nd 2002 by Routledge.
more information about Teaching in JapanEducational Restructuring in the Context of Globalization and National Policy
Holger Daun and his associates argue that globalization is transforming educational systems. In this ambitious new book, they demonstrate that while change may not...ISBN: 978-0-8153-3941-0 | Published October 26th 2001 by Routledge.
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How Japanese Adolescents Balance School, Family and Friends
This volume examines the lives of young adolescents in Japanese middle schools, focusing on the dynamics of school, family, and social life, and explores the...ISBN: 978-0-8153-3145-2 | Published April 27th 2001 by Routledge.
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Comparisons with the U.S.
In this book, Dr. Tsuneyoshi observes the educational approach of two nations, one most often cited as being the "home of rugged individualism," and the...ISBN: 978-0-8153-3641-9 | Published January 3rd 2001 by Routledge.
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Gender and Education in Latin America
In this ground-breaking study, Regina Cortina and Nelly Stromquist examine how the alliances of international agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations have strengthened public support...ISBN: 978-0-8153-3375-3 | Published September 28th 2000 by Routledge.
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A Comparative Study
This book investigates the relationships between education and national development in an area of the world where both have acquired considerable importance. It questions...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1856-9 | Published January 1st 2000 by Routledge.
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Quality and Equality
This book debunks the argument that quality in education can only be achieved by limiting, or trading off, equality. The quality of schooling is a...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1394-6 | Published January 1st 2000 by Routledge.
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Interpretive Studies of Education in China
This book, a collection of ethnographic studies of Chinese schooling, aims to take the reader into Chinese schools and provide a picture of students and...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1471-4 | Published November 1st 1999 by Routledge.
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Dilemmas for Development
This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are:...ISBN: 978-0-8153-2783-7 | Published October 1st 1999 by Routledge.
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Japan's Role in American Educational Debates
In this book the authors systematically address the most common stereotypes or myths about Japanese education that are currently being circulated in the popular press,...ISBN: 978-0-8153-3273-2 | Published July 1st 1999 by Routledge.
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An Analysis of Knowledge and Power
In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations...ISBN: 978-0-8153-3155-1 | Published June 1st 1999 by Routledge.
more information about Politics of Educational Innovations in Developing CountriesChina's National Minority Education
Culture, Schooling, and Development
This volume focuses on policies and practices in the education of China's national minorities with the purpose of assessing the goals and impact of state...ISBN: 978-0-8153-2223-8 | Published June 1st 1999 by Routledge.
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Beyond Policy and Practice
This book discusses equal opportunity for education in a global context. Research findings from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North...ISBN: 978-0-8153-2861-2 | Published April 1st 1999 by Routledge.
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Equality, Policy, and Reform
This significant contribution to comparative education presents an authoritative discussion of the recent changes in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The implementation of a...ISBN: 978-0-8153-2476-8 | Published July 1st 1998 by Routledge.
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Contemporary Issues and Future Concerns
Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa addresses the difficulties and achievements in providing basic primary school education, literacy and numeracy, to every child, while furthering knowledge of...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1645-9 | Published July 1st 1998 by Routledge.
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Classroom Management in International Perspective
The growing economic competition among the world's industrialized and developing nations has spurred comparisons and examinations of national school systems. An important aspect of any...ISBN: 978-0-8153-2466-9 | Published April 1st 1998 by Routledge.
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Community-Oriented Approaches
Modern education, conceived in the late 18th century and expanded in the early 19th century to promote enlightenment and social equality, may finally be nearing...ISBN: 978-0-8153-2378-5 | Published June 1st 1997 by Routledge.
more information about Quality Education for AllSocial Justice and Third World Education
The impact of international social change is already having a marked effect on the Third World in their internal policies, budgets, and development programs. This...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1168-3 | Published December 1st 1996 by Routledge.
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Cross-National Perspectives
This volume of twelve original essays examines the interplay between women's education and development, and if and how it has changed women's status, in selected...ISBN: 978-0-8153-0795-2 | Published October 1st 1996 by Routledge.
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Current Perspectives
This collection of 11 original in-depth accounts of qualitative research and evaluation in developing countries argues that such innovative methods offer considerable advantages over traditional...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1494-3 | Published October 1st 1996 by Routledge.
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Schools and Language Minorities in Twelve Nations
In the United States and in various nations throughout the world, immigrants seeking temporary or permanent residence are increasing in numbers. This comparative study surveys...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1469-1 | Published August 1st 1996 by Routledge.
more information about Educating Immigrant ChildrenThree Decades of Peace Education around the World
An Anthology
The current world order poses new challenges to the theory and practice of peace education. Drawing on data gathered from around the world, Burns...ISBN: 978-0-8240-5549-3 | Published February 1st 1996 by Routledge.
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Issues in Changing Social Contexts
The original essays in this volume examine reform-related issues in teacher education in Great Britain, Canada, Japan, Ukraine, United States, and Western Europe. A...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1458-5 | Published March 1st 1995 by Routledge.
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Tradition and Transition
In his address to the Communist Party in 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev blamed the Party for the disastrous state of his country. Within five years,...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1169-0 | Published March 1st 1995 by Routledge.
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This study of the integration of East and West German education following the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 focuses on policy formation...ISBN: 978-0-8153-1705-0 | Published January 1st 1995 by Routledge.
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A radical departure from previous chronicles of education for people with disabilities, this book views special education from a broader perspective. Its central thesis is...ISBN: 978-0-8240-6988-9 | Published March 1st 1993 by Routledge.
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A Multilingual Annotated Bibliography
ISBN: 978-0-8240-9052-4 | Published March 1st 1992 by Routledge.
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An Annotated Bibliographic Guide
This annotated guide of English-language material on education in the Arab world includes books, journal articles, national and international reports and documents and Ph.D. dissertations....ISBN: 978-0-8240-8249-9 | Published December 1st 1991 by Routledge.
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Economy, Ideology, and the State
This book focuses on important theoretical and policy debates on educational reform, with detailed analyses of reforms in 11 countries. It also explores the...ISBN: 978-0-8240-6896-7 | Published August 1st 1991 by Routledge.
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