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Schooling Around the World: Debates, Challenges, and Practices
Kas Mazurek, University of Lethbridge
Margret A. Winzer, University of Lethbridge

ISBN-10: 0205454593
ISBN-13: 9780205454594

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 384 pp
Published: 10/07/2005

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Written in a comprehensive, narrative style, Schooling Around the World acquaints students with the major debates, practices, and challenges facing teachers throughout the world today.

 

Drawn from first-hand experience and knowledge, the authors include the latest, most up-to-date viewpoints on comparative and international education. Designed to give students in teacher education programs a global perspective on their future profession, the text is constructed around a solid framework—a consistent structural format for each chapter, and within each chapter—so students can easily draw thematic comparisons among the numerous case studies presented.

  • Presents the relevance of comparative and international education in the Introduction, where all major themes and issues of the text are clearly spelled out. 
  • Provides an “insider’s” knowledge of the culture and education systems explored, as chapter authors are either nationals of the countries they write about or have had extensive experience working as educators, and living in, the countries presented.
  • Features many of the great challenges facing the world and educators today. Case studies throughout the book address many persistent and emerging world issues: turmoil in the Middle East; the rising political and economic significance of China; the world-class education systems of South Korea and Japan; the rise of Islamic nationalism; turmoil of Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the fall of Communism; the burden of overpopulation; the quest for excellence in the United States; and more.
  • Contains the latest, most up-to-date information on different nations in the world, written in a narrative style that is very accessible for undergraduate students, yet with a depth and scope well-suited for graduate students.
  • Illustrates the fundamental, revolutionary changes the world is experiencing, creating an international perspective for students.

Foreword.   I. ABOUT THIS BOOK.

1. Introduction, Overview, and Study Guide for the Reader 
            Kas Mazurek, Margret A. Winzer

II. THE PACIFIC RIM: A LANDSCAPE OF DIVERSITY.

2. Japanese Schooling
        Hiroyuki Numata

3. Education in South Korea: Changes and Challenges
        Daeyoung, Jung

4. Education Reform for National Competitiveness in a Global Age: The Experience and Struggle of China
        Wing-Wah Law

5. Schooling in Australia: The Interplay of Education, Politics, and Culture
        Cynthia Joseph, Margret A. Winzer, and Vikki Pollard

III. THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH WEST ASIA: PROGRESS IN THE FACE OF UNRESOLVED STRUGGLES

6. Palestine’s Education System: Challenges, Trends, and Issues.
        Samir J. Dukmak

7. The Israeli Education System: Blending Dreams With Constraints
        Thomas P. Gumpel and Adam E. Nir

8. Education Systems in an Ideological State: Major Issues and Concerns in Pakistan
        Mahnazir Riaz

 9. Education in India: Progress and Promise in a Land of Paradox
        John P. Anchan

IV. THE NEW EUROPE: SUSTAINING THE WEST; REINVENTING THE EAST

10. French Education’s dilemma in the Globalization Process: How to Accommodate Simultaneously the Objectives of Equality and Excellence?
        Estelle Orivel and François Orivel

11. England: New Labour, new schooling?
        Philip Garner

12. Schooling, Education Reforms, And Policy Shifts In The Russian Federation
         Joseph Zajda

13. Poland: Transformations in Society and Schooling
        Kas Mazurek and Czeslaw Majorek

V. NORTH AMERICAN NEIGHBORS: WORLDS APART

14. Mexican Education
        Alina Gamboa and Caroline Linse

15. Schooling in the United States: Democratic and Market-Based Approaches
        Timothy E. Jester

VI. SNAPSHOTS FROM TWO SOUTHERN CONTINENTS

16. Post-Apartheid Policy and Practice: Education Reform in South Africa
        David Gilmour, Crain Soudien, and David Donald

17. Brazil: The Quest for Quality.
        Candido Alberto Gomes, Clélia Capanema, and Jacira Câmara

Written in a comprehensive, narrative style, Schooling Around the World acquaints students with the major debates, practices, and challenges facing teachers throughout the world today. Drawn from first-hand experience and knowledge, the authors include the latest, most up-to-date viewpoints on comparative and international education. Designed to give students in teacher education programs a global perspective on their future profession, the text is constructed around a consistent structural format for each chapter so students can easily draw thematic comparisons among the numerous case studies presented. Features:

  • Provides an insider’s knowledge of the culture and education systems explored, as chapter authors are either nationals of the countries they write about or have had extensive experience working as educators and living in the countries presented.
  • Features many of the great challenges facing the world and educators today. Case studies throughout the book address many persistent and emerging world issues: turmoil in the Middle East; the rising political and economic significance of China; the world-class education systems of South Korea and Japan; the rise of Islamic nationalism; turmoil in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the fall of Communism; the burden of overpopulation; the quest for excellence in the United States; and more.
  • Presents the relevance of comparative and international education in the Introduction, where all major themes and issues of the text are clearly outlined.
  • Contains the latest, most up-to-date information on different nations in the world, written in a narrative style that is very accessible for undergraduate students, yet with a depth and scope appropriate for graduate students.

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