Emergent issues in education : Comparative perspectives
/ Arnove,Robert F.
- New York State University of New York Press 1992
- 363 p
I. Part 1: Trends in comparative education 1. Debates ad tends in comparative education II. Part 2: World trends in education 2. Compulsory schooling in the western cultural context 3. Patterns in higher education development 4. Donor agencies and third world educational development 5. Modernization without westernization: assessing the Chinese educational experience 6. The neo-conservative paradigm: recent changes in eastern Europe III. Part 3: Theoretical frameworks 7. Conceptualizing education and the drive for social equality 8. Conceptualizing the role of education in the economy 9. Education and the state: from Adam Smith to perestroika IV. Part 4: Contemporary reform movements and emergent issues 10. Reforming educational governance: centralization/decentralization 11. Public and private sectors in education in India 12. Comparing national systems of secondary school leaving examination 13. A cross-national study of teachers 14. Education reform in Britain and the United States 15. Effective schools in comparative focus V. Part 5: Policy impact of IEA research 16. Education, women and change 17. National literacy campaigns in historical and comparative perspective: legacies, lessons and issues