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Comparative Education: Exploring Issues in International Context, 2/E
Patricia K. Kubow, Bowling Green State University
Paul R. Fossum, University of Michigan, Dearborn

ISBN-10: 0131719807
ISBN-13: 9780131719804

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 336 pp
Published: 01/11/2006

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This is a core text for graduate-level Comparative Education courses. 

 

With its cross-cultural, isues-oriented approach, Comparative Education introduces K-12 educational systems worldwide. Readers are invited to consider current educational issues both at home and abroad, while developing global perspectives and skills of comparative inquiry to use their own reflective classroom teaching.

 

Chapters on theory in compartive education, frameworks for analyzing educational issues, and globalization's implications for education explore several key issues in depth: purposes of schooling, educational access and opportunity, education accountability and authority, and teacher professionalism.

 

This book takes an issues-based approach rather than a country-based approach.  A major purpose of this book is to widen the field of comparative education's influence by articulating the relevance of comparative education to include a larger, practitioner-oriented audience. 

Analytic frameworks-To study the educational issues and provide readers with a systematic method for examination; designed to foster critical thinking and to help the reader suspend his or her judgment by drawing upon multiple perspectives.

 

Focusing Questions-Serve to identify the particular aspects of the issues addressed in each chapter.

 

Sustaining Reflection closing statements-Serve as launching points for further reflection.

 

Biographical Sketches-Historical and contemporary educators are featured throughout the text, helping to familiarize students with three international and three American educators who have used international perspectives to guide domestic educational efforts.

 

 

  • NEW chapter on globalization specifically addresses the implications for education in a world of increasing interdependence and integration.
  • NEW! Improved Side-by-Side Comparisons juxtapose the demographic, geophysical, economic, and sociopolitical attributes of the featured countries, as well as their implications for education.

PART I        Comparative Education and Underlying Assumptions About Education: The Comparative Approach

 

Chapter 1    Comparative Education

Chapter 2    Theory in Comparative Education

 

PART II       Education in International Context: A Comparative Approach Applied to Contemporary Educational Issues

 

Chapter 3    Purposes of Schooling

Chapter 4    Educational Access and Opportunity

Chapter 5    Education Accountability and Authority

Chapter 6    Teacher Professionalism

 

PART III      Interpreting Educational Issues: Local-Global Comparison and the Use of Analytic Frameworks

 

Chapter 7    Applying Frameworks to Analyze Educational Issues

Chapter 8    Globalization and Implications for Education

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