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Informationen zum Autor FRANCES VAVRUS is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota! USA. She is the author of Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania and a recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship for research in Tanzania. She is a member of the Board of the Comparative and International Education Society.LESLEY BARTLETT is Associate Professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College! Columbia University. She is the author of the forthcoming book! The Word and the World: The Cultural Politics of Literacy in Brazil. She is a recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for research in the Dominican Republic. Klappentext This book unites a dynamic group of scholars who examine linkages among local! national! and international levels of educational policy and practice. Utilizing multi-sited! ethnographic approaches! the essays explore vertical interactions across diverse levels of policy and practice while prompting horizontal comparisons across twelve sites in Africa! Europe! the Middle East! and the Americas. The vertical case studies focus on a range of topics! including participatory development! the politics of culture and language! neoliberal educational reforms! and education in post-conflict settings. Editors Vavrus and Bartlett contribute to comparative theory and practice by demonstrating the advantages of thinking vertically. Zusammenfassung This book unites a dynamic group of scholars who examine linkages among local! national! and international levels of educational policy and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: APPROPRIATING EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND PROGRAMSLocalizing No Child Left Behind: Supplemental Educational Services (SES) in New York CityThe Décalage and Bricolage of Higher Education Policymaking in an Inter/national System: The Unintended Consequences of Participation in the 1992 Senegalese CNES ReformAIDS and Edutainment: Inter/National Health Education in Tanzanian Secondary SchoolsPART II: EXPLORING PARTICIPATION IN INTER/NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSEQuestioning Participation: Exploring Discourses and Practices of Community Participation in Education Reform in TanzaniaLiving Participation: Considering the Promise and Politics of Participatory Educational Reforms in BrazilTransformative Teaching in Restrictive Times: Engaging Teacher Participation in Small School Reform during an Era of StandardizationPART III: EXAMINING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DIVERSITY'Migration Nation': Intercultural Education and Anti-Racism as Symbolic Violence in Celtic Tiger Ireland'Don't You Want Your Child to Be Better than You?': Enacting Ideologies and Contesting Intercultural Policy in PeruCitizenship and Belonging in an Age of Insecurity: Pakistani Immigrant Youth in New York CityPART IV: MANAGING CONFLICT THROUGH INTER/NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONThe Relief-Development Transition: Sustainability and Educational Support in Post-Conflict SettingsPerpetuated Suffering: Social Injustice in Liberian Teachers' LivesPositioning Arabic in Schools: Language Policy! National Identity! and Development in Contemporary Lebanon ...
