World Culture Re-Contextualised: Meaning Constellations and Path-Dependencies in Comparative and International Education Research

ISBN-13: 9781138305502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 186 str.

Jurgen Schriewer

Opis

This book offers an enlightening conceptualisation of the intricate interaction of global processes with local agency, and of world-level forces with the self-evolutionary potentials inherent in specific contexts, socio-cultural structures, and distinctive meanings constellations. It was first published as a special issue of Comparative Education.

Spis treści

1. Meaning Constellations in the World Society – Revisited  2. The world society perspective: concepts, assumptions, and strategies  3. Complicating the concept of culture  4. The global/ local nexus in comparative policy studies: analysing the triple bonus system in Mongolia over time  5. World culture with Chinese characteristics: when global models go native  6. Structural elaboration of technical and vocational education and training systems in developing countries: the cases of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh  7. Exploring the interweaving of contrary currents: transnational policy enactment and path-dependent policy implementation in Australia and Japan  8. Globalisation and regional variety: problems of theorisation  9. Institutional Theories and Levels of Analysis: History, Diffusion, and Translation  10. The Historical Construction of Social Order: Ideas, Institutions and Meaning Constellations

O autorze

Jürgen Schriewer is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. A former Dean of Humboldt University's School of Education, and Head of its Comparative Education Centre, he also served as President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe and was repeatedly invited as a Visiting Professor to Universities in Paris, (René Descartes); Stockholm; Tokyo, (Waseda and Hitotsubashi University); Buenos Aires, (Universidad de San Andrés) and Mexico-City (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).