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Distant Alliances - Gender And Education In Latin America

51,66€ + 10% CARD

 In this ground-breaking study, Regina Cortina and Nelly Stromquist examine how the alliances of international agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations have strengthened public support for educating girls and women in Latin America. Bringing a timely and readable account of the strategies pursued, the authors show how the strength of the women''s movement has influenced the education of women and girls, and thus has helped to reduce poverty and strengthen the citizenship of women in developing countries. The book''s overview of recent initiatives, along with its illuminating case studies of developing nations, offers the reader a window into educational reform and the realities of social change in Latin America.
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Education, Cultures, And Economics - Dilemmas For Development

by Angela W. Little e Fiona E. Leach

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote cultural goals, the differentiation of schools from other sites of cultural reproduction, learning experiences of various cultural groups, and the cross-cultural work of development agencies.
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Distant Alliances - Gender And Education In Latin America

51,66€ + 10% CARD

 In this ground-breaking study, Regina Cortina and Nelly Stromquist examine how the alliances of international agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations have strengthened public support for educating girls and women in Latin America. Bringing a timely and readable account of the strategies pursued, the authors show how the strength of the women''s movement has influenced the education of women and girls, and thus has helped to reduce poverty and strengthen the citizenship of women in developing countries. The book''s overview of recent initiatives, along with its illuminating case studies of developing nations, offers the reader a window into educational reform and the realities of social change in Latin America.
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Development Education In Japan - A Comparative Analysis Of The Contexts For Its Emergence, And Its Introduction Into The Japanese School System

by Yuri Ishii

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 This book aims to provide an explanation for the slow introduction into Japan of development education.
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Crisis And Hope - The Educational Hopscotch Of Latin America

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region.
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Re-Imagining Comparative Education - Postfoundational Ideas And Applications For Critical Times

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 The original essays included here, by up and coming scholars in the field, illustrate the potential and diversity of post-foundational ideas as applied to comparative education concerns.
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Competitor Or Ally? - Japan''S Role In American Educational Debates

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 In this book the authors systematically address the most common stereotypes or myths about Japanese education that are currently being circulated in the popular press, teaching magazines and educational research journals. The authors show how arguments about Japan are used to further political ends within the American educational debate. Some of the myths that the book debunks are Japan''s high adolescent suicide rate. LeTendre and Zeng show that adolescent suicide among males is now twice as high in the U.S. as in Japan. Tsuchida and Lewis take on the myth of Japanese classrooms as crowded places centered on rote-learning--providing detailed evidence as to why Japanese students may indeed have an "edge" in math. McConnell uses Japan''s highly successful foreign language program to deconstruct images of "Japan Inc."--showing the highly fractious and bitter political debates that occur in Japan. Yang provides data on differences in Japanese and American teachers'' work roles--showing that differences in the two educational systems are not simply due to "cultural" differences, but have a basis in educational policy and school organization. Shimizu offers an alternative view of achievement motivation among Japanese students based on in-depth interviews with Japanese teens.
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Education, Cultures, And Economics - Dilemmas For Development

by Angela W. Little e Fiona E. Leach

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote cultural goals, the differentiation of schools from other sites of cultural reproduction, learning experiences of various cultural groups, and the cross-cultural work of development agencies.
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Constructing Education For Development - International Organizations And Education For All

by Colette Chabbott

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 This volume analyses the role of discourse, organizations, professionalism and conferences in shaping education for development since World War II.
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Constructing Education For Development - International Organizations And Education For All

by Colette Chabbott

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 This volume analyses the role of discourse, organizations, professionalism and conferences in shaping education for development since World War II.
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Daughters Of The Tharu - Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, And The Education Of Nepali Girls

by Mary Ann Maslak

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 This book identifies and examines the cultural conditions and circumstances that influence the process of educational decision making for girls in Nepal.
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Learning Through Collaborative Research - The Six Nation Education Research Project

76,84€ + 10% CARD

 This book covers the seven-year project involving China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US, to show how collaborative research can help expand worldwide knowledge of education.
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Competitor Or Ally? - Japan''S Role In American Educational Debates

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 In this book the authors systematically address the most common stereotypes or myths about Japanese education that are currently being circulated in the popular press, teaching magazines and educational research journals. The authors show how arguments about Japan are used to further political ends within the American educational debate. Some of the myths that the book debunks are Japan''s high adolescent suicide rate. LeTendre and Zeng show that adolescent suicide among males is now twice as high in the U.S. as in Japan. Tsuchida and Lewis take on the myth of Japanese classrooms as crowded places centered on rote-learning--providing detailed evidence as to why Japanese students may indeed have an "edge" in math. McConnell uses Japan''s highly successful foreign language program to deconstruct images of "Japan Inc."--showing the highly fractious and bitter political debates that occur in Japan. Yang provides data on differences in Japanese and American teachers'' work roles--showing that differences in the two educational systems are not simply due to "cultural" differences, but have a basis in educational policy and school organization. Shimizu offers an alternative view of achievement motivation among Japanese students based on in-depth interviews with Japanese teens.
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Inside Japanese Classrooms - The Heart Of Education

by Nancy Sato

76,84€ + 10% CARD

 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 U.S., 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.
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Teacher Education In Industrialized Nations - Issues In Changing Social Contexts

47,30€ + 10% CARD

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 First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Intense Years - How Japanese Adolescents Balance School, Family And Friends

by Gerald K. Letendre e Rebecca Erwin Fukuzawa

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 This volume examines the lives of young adolescents in Japanese middle schools, focusing on the dynamics of school, family, and social life, and explores the change from child to adolescent that takes place in the middle school years.
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Intense Years - How Japanese Adolescents Balance School, Family And Friends

by Gerald K. Letendre e Rebecca Erwin Fukuzawa

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 This volume examines the lives of young adolescents in Japanese middle schools, focusing on the dynamics of school, family, and social life, and explores the change from child to adolescent that takes place in the middle school years.
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Hegemonies Compared - State Formation And Chinese School Politics In Postwar Singapore And Hong Kong

by Ting-Hong Wong

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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Hegemonies Compared - State Formation And Chinese School Politics In Postwar Singapore And Hong Kong

by Ting-Hong Wong

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 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.
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Intense Years - How Japanese Adolescents Balance School, Family And Friends

by Gerald K. Letendre e Rebecca Erwin Fukuzawa

63,53€ + 10% CARD

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 This volume examines the lives of young adolescents in Japanese middle schools, focusing on the dynamics of school, family, and social life, and explores the change from child to adolescent that takes place in the middle school years.
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Understanding Educational Reform In Global Context - Economy, Ideology, And The State

by Mark Ginsburg

67,58€ + 10% CARD

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 First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Re-Imagining Comparative Education - Postfoundational Ideas And Applications For Critical Times

70,29€ + 10% CARD

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 The original essays included here, by up and coming scholars in the field, illustrate the potential and diversity of post-foundational ideas as applied to comparative education concerns.
ENGLISH

Crisis And Hope - The Educational Hopscotch Of Latin America

33,79€ + 10% CARD

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 This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics, nightmares, dreams, crisis and promises of education in the region.
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Education And Disability In Cross-Cultural Perspective

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 First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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