Advancing democracy through education? : U.S. influence abroad and domestic practices /

This book explores the diversity of American roles in education for democracy cross-culturally, both within the United States and around the world. This collection provides a rich sampling of the diverse contexts and ways in which American ideas, practices, and policies of education for democracy ar...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stevick, Doyle, 1969-, Levinson, Bradley A., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlotte, NC : IAP-Information Age Pub., ©2008.
Colección:Education policy in practice.
Temas:
Democracy > Study and teaching.
Civics > Study and teaching.
Democratization > International cooperation > Case studies.
Democracy and education.
Démocratie > Étude et enseignement.
Éducation à la citoyenneté.
Démocratisation > Coopération internationale > Études de cas.
Démocratie et éducation.
Best practice.
Budgeting.
Civics.
Democratic values.
Educational planning.
Educational policy.
Higher education.
Immigration.
International cooperation.
Nationalism.
Postsecondary education.
EDUCATION > Aims & Objectives.
Democratization > International cooperation.
Bildungspolitik
USA.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : education policy, national interests, and advancing democracy / Doyle Stevick and Bradley A.U. Levinson
  • Beyond nationalism : the founding fathers and educational universalism in the new republic / Benjamin Justice
  • Becoming American in time? : the educational implications of binary discourse on immigration / Patricia Buck with Rachel Silver
  • Higher education and civic engagement in the United States : budgetary, disciplinary, and spatial borders / Kathleen Staudt
  • Discourse versus practice in civic education for development : the case of USAID assistance to Palestine / Ayman M. Alsayed
  • Foreign influence and economic insecurity in international partnerships for civic education : the case of Estonia / Doyle Stevick
  • Civic education reform for democracy : U.S. models in Mexico and Indonesia / Bradley A.U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton
  • Developing citizenship education curriculum cross-culturally : a democratic approach with South African and Kenyan educators / Patricia K. Kubow
  • Putting equity into action : a case study of educators' professional development in twenty-first century Kazakhstan / David Landis and Sapargul Mirseitova
  • From monsoons to Katrina : the civic implications of cosmopolitanism / Payal P. Shah
  • Building towards democracy in apartheid South Africa : a pioneering partnership for training black school leaders, 1989-95 / Ronald R. Atkinson and Judy L. Wyatt.

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