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Politics and Education: Cases from eleven nations tackles the relationship between politics and education. The book presents several dimensions of the politics-education relationship, such as the use of education in achieving political agendas and the effects of the interest of a political group on...
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Pergamon Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1983. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080289052 |
| Summary: |
Politics and Education: Cases from eleven nations tackles the relationship between politics and education. The book presents several dimensions of the politics-education relationship, such as the use of education in achieving political agendas and the effects of the interest of a political group on educational policy. The book present cases from 11 different countries that show the interaction between education and politics, such as the use of educational policy as a compensatory legitimation in West Germany; the educational opportunity under pre- and post-revolutionary condition in Nicaragua. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781483147963 1483147967 |
| Index Number: | LC71 |
| CLC: | G40-05 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Politics and Education: Cases from Eleven Nations; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. The Symbiotic Linking of Politics and Education; Meanings Assigned to Education and Politics; A Model of Politics-Education Interaction; Functions of Influence; Strategies for Exerting Influence; Conclusion; PART I: STRATEGIES FOR USING EDUCATION TO ACHIEVE POLITICAL ENDS; Chapter 2. WEST GERMANY: Educational Policy as Compensatory Legitimation; The Erosion of Legitimacy and the State's Response; Strategies of Compensatory Legitimation in West German Educational; Policy. ConclusionChapter 3. ZAIRE: The State and the University; University Autonomy and Academic Freedom; Regional Imbalances and the University Quota System; The Political Pressure for Relevance; Conclusions; Chapter 4. NICARAGUA: Educational Opportunity under Pre- and Post-revolutionary Conditions; Pre-revolutionary Politics; Pre-revolutionary Education; Politics in Post-revolutionary Nicaragua; Conclusions; Chapter 5. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The Languages of Education: New Ethnicity and the Drive; Ethnicity in the American Context; Bilingual Education and the Law; Summary and Conclusions. PART II: PATTERNS OF MAJORITY-MINORITY GROUP RELATIONSChapter 6 THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Educational Policy and National Minorities: The Politics of Intergroup Relations; An Analytical Viewpoint; China's National Minorities: The Context; Early Minorities Policy 1949-1966; The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966-1976; The Four Modernizations Movement 1976-Present; Conclusion; Chapter 7 MALAYSIA: Cooperation Versus Competition-or National Unity Versus Favored Access to Education; The Roots of Malaysian Ethnic Patterns; The Birth of Malaysia-A Problem in Social Structure. Aims and Strategies 158The Two Faces of Education; Results and Rationales; Chapter 8. JAMAICA: Education and the Maintenance of the Social-class System; Characteristics of Colonial Education Systems; Class Structure in Jamaica; The Development of Secondary Schooling: The Colonial Era; Secondary Schooling after Independence; A Challenge to the Sociopolitical Structure; Summary and Conclusions; PART III: MULTIPLE GROUP INFLUENCES ON EDUCATIONAL DECISIONS; Chapter 9 ISRAEL: Political Roots and Effects of Two Educational Decisions; The Structural-change Decision-8-4 to 6-3-3. Analysis of the Structural-change DecisionThe Curricular-change Decision in Vocational Education; Analysis of the Curricular-change Decision ; Epilogue; Chapter 10. ENGLAND AND WALES: Muted Educational Confrontations in a Parliamentary Democracy; Significant Political Forces; Political Ideology and Educational Practice; Educators' Social Power; Realignments of Education; Egalitarianism and Economic Needs; Chapter 11 CANADA: Educational Decisions within a Mosaic of Interest Groups; An Overview of Canadian Education; Canadian Education: An Historical Analysis. |