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Tradition, Modernity and Post-Modernity in Comparative Education » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Tradition, Modernity and Post-Modernity in Comparative Education by Vandra L. Masemann

Authors: Vandra L. Masemann, Anthony Welch
ISBN-13: 9780792349594, ISBN-10: 0792349598
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Vandra L. Masemann

Book Synopsis

This book contains papers around the theme of Tradition, Modernity and Post-modernity in education from an international perspective. The Introduction examines this theme, drawing largely upon the literature in Comparative Education. Succeeding chapters illustrate that traditional, modern and even post-modern elements, or tensions between them, often exist within the same educational system. Cases are drawn from many parts of the world, and add up to a fascinating insight into the dynamic world of education.

Table of Contents

Editorial Introduction393
Challenges to Comparative Education: Between Retrospect and Expectation401
Indigenous Australian Education and Globalisation413
Girls' Access to Education in a Developing Country423
Level Playing Field? Feminist Observations on Global/Local Articulations of the Re-gendering and Restructuring of Educational Work439
Interculturality and Intercultural Education: A Challenge for Democracy463
Implementing Basic Education: An African Experience481
Comparative Methodology and Postmodern Relativism497
Exporting the European Idea of a National Language: Some Educational Implications of the Use of English and Indigenous Languages in the Philippines507
Towards a People-Centred Education: Possibilities and Struggles in the Philippines527
Privatization or Marketization: Educational Development in Post-Mao China547
Teacher's In-Service Education: A Proposal for Turning Teachers into Teacher-Researchers569
Development Education Revisited: The New Zealand Experience581
Problems of Illiteracy in a Literate Developing Society595
Le redoublement a l'ecole: une maladie universelle?611
Notes on Contributors629

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