Comparative education:continuing traditions, new challenges, and new paradigms

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Bray Mark, 1952-
Published: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Publisher Address: Dordrecht Boston
Publication Dates: c2003.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Item Description: International review of education.
Carrier Form: iv, 264 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 1402011431 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: G40
CLC: G40-059.3
Call Number: G40-059.3/C737/2001
Contents: "Reprinted from International review of education, Vol. 49, Nos. 1-2, 2003."
"Revised versions of papers presented at the 11th World Congress of Comparative Education, held in Korea in July 2001"--Introd.
Includes bibliographical references.
Tradition, change, and the role of the World Council of comparative Education societies / Mark Bray -- The future of comparative and international education in a globalised world / David N. Wilson -- Appropriation, appreciation, accommodation : indigenous wisdoms and knowledges in higher education / Douglas L. Morgan -- Comparative education in a microcosm : methodological insights from the International Schools Sector in Hong Kong / Mark Bray and Yoko Yamato -- A decade of transformation : educational policies in central and eastern Europe / Wolfgang Mitter -- Decentralisation and educational reform in Siberia and the Russian Far East / Tadashi Endo -- Lifelong learning and adult education : Russia meets the West / Joseph Zajda -- Approaches to global education in the United States, England and Japan / Hiroko Fujikane -- Primary schooling in China and India : understanding how sociocontextual factors moderate the role of the state / Nirmala Rao, Kai-Ming Cheng and Kirti Narain -- Cultural and school-grade differences in Korean and white American children's narrative skills / Meesook Kim -- Childhood ideology in the United States : a comparative cultural view / Diane M. Hoffman -- Social hierarchy and group solidarity : the meanings of work and vocation/profession in the Chinese context and their implications for vocational education / Barbara Schulte -- What children have lost by the modernisation of education : a comparison of experiences in Western Europe and Eastern Asia / Hiroyuki Numata.