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Power, voice and the public good : schooling and education in global societies /

Three themes underpin the tripartite structure of "Power, Voice, and the Public Good", including attention to the definitional and theoretical underpinnings of globalization; the ubiquitous nature and topical display of globalization; and, the possibilities of understanding, redefining and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boakari, Francis Musa, Hopson, Rodney K. (Rodney Kofi), Yeakey, Carol Camp
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald JAI, 2008.
Colección:Advances in education in diverse communities ; v. 6.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Carol Camp Yeakey
  • Introduction / Rodney K. Hopson, Carol Camp Yeakey, Francis Musa Boakari
  • Globalization, education and the trouble with peace / Antoinette Errante
  • Neoliberalism versus social justice: a view from Canada / Reva Joshee
  • The cost of education for some: educating illegals in the U.S. / David Urias
  • The effects of the neo-liberal agenda on education in some African countries / Birgit Brock-Utne
  • Schools as markets: bilking the young and powerless / Judith Brooks-Buck
  • What to teach our global citizens: applying transnational civics frameworks in four post-communist states / Alison Price-Rom
  • Schooling and education for the San (Ju/'hoansi) in Namibia: between a rock of colonialism and the hard place of globalization / Rodney K. Hopson, Jennifer Hays
  • Globalization from above, globalization from below: mechanisms for social disparity and social justice in higher education / Erin Kimura-Walsh, Walter R. Allen
  • Globalization, knowledge economy and the emergence of private universities in Sub-Saharan Africa / Kingsley Banya
  • The globalisation of higher education: assessing the response of the University of the West Indies / Meagan Sylvester
  • Learning to get ahead in a global society: postsecondary access of people of color in the U.S. / Eugene L. Anderson, Bryan Cook
  • International education in a global context / David Urias
  • Impact of Japanese colonial legacy on globalization of Korean education / Kim Hyunsook Song
  • Globalization, education, and cultural change in the Navajo nation: snapshots of situated appropriation and adaptive intelligence in the U.S. southwest / Edward J. Brantmeier
  • Globalization's strategic union: decentralization, efficiency, and the implications for educational governance in Spain / Laura C. Engel
  • Thailand and globalization: the state reform utilities of Buddhism, culture, and education and the social movement of socially and spiritually engaged alternative education / Michael E. Jones
  • The centrality of context in the development of the commonwealth teacher recruitment protocol: relevance for international teacher migration / Kimberly Ochs
  • From producing citizens to producing managers: education in a globalized world / Adeela Arshad-Ayaz.