Contributor
Arnove, Robert F.
Imprint:Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1992.
Descriptionxi, 363 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:PART I. TRENDS IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION: Debates and trends in comparative education / Gail P. Kelly -- PART II. WORLD TRENDS IN EDUCATION: Compulsory schooling in the western cultural context / John Boli, Francisco O. Ramirez -- Patterns in higher education development: toward the year 2000 / Philip G. Altbach -- Donor agencies and third world educational development, 1945-1985 / Edward H. Berman -- Modernization without westernization: assessing the Chinese educational experience / Ruth Hayhoe -- The neo-conservative paradigm: recent changes in eastern Europe / Tamas Kozma -- PART III. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS: Conceptualizing education and the drive for social equality / Joseph P. Farrell -- Conceptualizing the role of education in the economy / Peter Easton, Steven Klees -- Education and the state: from Adam Smith to Perestroika / Martin Carnoy -- PART IV. CONTEMPORARY REFORM MOVEMENTS AND EMERGENT ISSUES: Reforming educational governance: centralization/decentralization / Noel F. McGinn -- Public and private sectors in education in India / Jandhyala B. G. Tilak -- Comparing national systems of secondary school leaving examinations / Harold J. Noah, Max A. Eckstein -- A cross-national study of teachers / Harry Judge -- Education reform in Britain and the United States / Miriam David -- Effective schools in comparative focus / Henry M. Levin -- PART V. ASSESSING THE OUTCOMES OF REFORMS: Policy impact of IEA research / Torsten Husén -- Education, women, and change / Gail P. Kelly -- National literacy campaigns in historical and comparative perspective: legacies, lessons, and issues / Robert F. Arnove, Harvey J. Graff.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-351) index.
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