Comparative Education Reader brings together leading scholars to provide the most complete collection to date in the rapidly expanding discipline of comparative education. Spanning a broad range of perspectives, this highly readable volume offers an all-purpose introduction to this interdisciplinary field, and exposes crucial professional issues and problems. Edward R. Beauchamp makes available the best scholarship on key topics, including research methodology, equity in education, development and policy, and pedagogy.

This book explores the impact of cultural identity, the internal configurations of the educational field, and the struggles both inside and outside the educational systems of post-World War II Singapore and Hong Kong. By comparing the school politics of these two nations, Wong generates a theory that illuminates connections between state formation, education, and hegemony in countries with dissimilar cultural makeups.

This book provides an explanation for the slow introduction of Development Education in Japan. The book suggests social, political and economic contexts conducive to the development of Development Education on the basis of a comparative analysis, before analysing the Japanese situation and explaining why Japan is a decade behind in reacting to the contextual change. Yuri Ishii's unique contribution is the conceptual framework she provides for the analysis of Development Education's emergence, coupled with its detailed case study of curriculum change in Japan.

A collection of ten essays advocating the important link between social justice and education and pointing out the threats posed to both by internal policy and budgeting. The contributors include a selection of international scholars and program administrators presenting their views on Third World e

This work debunks the argument that quality in education can only be achieved by limiting, or trading off, equality. The quality of schooling is a major issue for Third World nations across the globe. However there is no single measure which is universally accepted. Whether it is, as some economists might argue, an issue of the number of desks per classroom or one of national sovereignty is widely disputed. Defining equality in education becomes increasingly difficult in an era of globalization in which there exists a wide gap between rich and poor, both within and between nations. In the...

Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa addresses the difficulties and achievements in providing basic primary school education, literacy and numeracy, to every child, while furthering knowledge of the cultural heritage.

This detailed ethnographic study of fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms offers new insights into Japanese culture, as many aspects of daily social life are embedded in the educational system. Additionally, this book provides new perspectives on educational reform in the US, since many current issues and programs focus on notions of community, collaboration and systemic reform, all of which are central to understanding Japanese teaching-learning processes in schools.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.