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Zusatztext "Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students." -- Choice "Well written and extremely informative." -- Comparative Education Review Informationen zum Autor Mark B. Ginsburg Klappentext This book focuses on important theoretical and policy debates on educational reform, with detailed analyses of reforms in 11 countries. It also explores the effects of geographical location, political ideology, and economic structure on shaping educational reform. Individual case studies are included on Australia, Cote d'Ivoire, England, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Spain, Tanzania, and the United States. The book covers the role of reform in changing education and addressing problems in the educational system, as well as its wider role in deflecting crises in the political and economic system, plus the effect of reform on educators, and educators upon reform. Extensive bibliography and reference lists accompany each chapter, including the introduction and conclusion. Contributors include: N'Dri Thérese Assié-Lumumba, John M. Barrington, Susan F. Cooper, Peter Darvas, Sara Morgenstern de Finkel, Esther E. Gottlieb, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Don Martin, Henry D. R. Miller, Rolland Paulston, Rajeshwari Raghu, Susan Rippberger, Susan L. Robertson, Carlos Alberto Torres, George E. Urch, Roger R. Woock, and Hugo Zegarra. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on important theoretical and policy debates on educational reform, with detailed analyses of reforms in 11 countries. It also explores the effects of geographical location, political ideology, and economic structure on shaping educational reform. Individual case studies are included on Australia, Cote d'Ivoire, England, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Spain, Tanzania, and the United States. The book covers the role of reform in changing education and addressing problems in the educational system, as well as its wider role in deflecting crises in the political and economic system, plus the effect of reform on educators, and educators upon reform. Extensive bibliography and reference lists accompany each chapter, including the introduction and conclusion. Contributors include: N'Dri Thérese Assié-Lumumba, John M. Barrington, Susan F. Cooper, Peter Darvas, Sara Morgenstern de Finkel, Esther E. Gottlieb, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Don Martin, Henry D. R. Miller, Rolland Paulston, Rajeshwari Raghu, Susan Rippberger, Susan L. Robertson, Carlos Alberto Torres, George E. Urch, Roger R. Woock, and Hugo Zegarra. Inhaltsverzeichnis SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD EDUCATIONAL REFORM: SOCIAL STRUGGLE, THE STATE AND THE WORLD ECONOMIC SYSTEM; RESTRUCTURING EDUCATION AND THE STATE IN ENGLAND; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN AUSTRALIA; STATE CORPORATISM, EDUCATIONAL POLICIES, AND STUDENTS' AND TEACHERS' MOVEMENTS IN MEXICO; THE SCENARIO OF THE SPANISH EDUCATIONAL REFORM; IDEOLOGICAL PLURALISM IN NICARAGUAN UNIVERSITY REFORM; SHIFTS IN SOCIOECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY IN TANZANIA: EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL FORCES; PERSPECTIVES OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN HUNGARY; THE STATE, ECONOMIC CRISIS, AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN CôTE D'IVOIRE; EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN NEW ZEALAND; GLOBAL RHETORIC, LOCAL POLICY: A CASE STUDY OF ISRAELI EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING; THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SCHOOL REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES; EDUCATIONAL REFORM, THE STATE, AND THE WORLD ECONOMY: UNDERSTANDING AND ENGAGING IN IDEOLOGICAL AND OTHER STRUGGLES...
