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The Politics of Education Reforms

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Editors:
  1. Joseph Zajda

    1. Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia

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  2. Macleans A. Geo-JaJa

    1. David O. McKay School of Education, Brigham Young University, Provo, U.S.A.

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  • Explores conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches applicable in the research of education reforms, policy change and globalisation
  • Examines central discourses surrounding the debate of education reforms, access and equity in schooling globally
  • Illustrates how the relationship between education reforms and globalization affects current models and trends in schooling globally
  • Demonstrates ideological imperatives of globalisation and its impact on trends in schooling around the world
  • Evaluates the ambivalent and problematic relationship between the State, ideology, education reforms and outcomes in education globally
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research (GCEP, volume 9)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  3. EQUALITY, ACCESS AND DEMOCRACY

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 110-110
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    2. Social Exclusion, Poverty, and Educational Inequity in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria: Which Development Framework

      • Macleans A. Geo-JaJa
      Pages 111-135

    3. Constructing Worker-Citizens in/Through Teacher Education in Cuba: Curricular Goals in the Changing Political Economic Context

      • Mark Ginsburg, Carolina Belalcazar, Simona Popa, Orlando Pacheco
      Pages 137-163

    4. The Reform of Chinese College English Teaching (CCET) in the Context of Globalisation

      • Zhang Xiaoqing, Holger Daun
      Pages 165-181

    5. Global Teacher Rec ruitment as a Challenge to the Goal of Universal Primary Education

      • Madeleine Mattarozzi Laming
      Pages 183-191

    6. Power and Authority in School and Community: Interactions Between Non-Indigenous Teachers and Indigenous Teacher Assistants in Remote Australian Schools

      • Elizabeth Warren, Annette R. Baturo, Tom J. Cooper
      Pages 193-207

    7. Deliberative Pedagogy and the Rationalization of Learning

      • Klas Roth
      Pages 209-218

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 219-225
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The Politics of Education Reforms, which is the ninth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses concerning the politics of education reforms globally. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about recent developments in globalisation, comparative edu- tion and education reforms. Above all, the book offers the latest findings to the critical issues concerning major discourses surrounding education reforms in the global culture. It is a sourcebook of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in education, and schooling around the world. It offers a timely overview of current policy issues affecting research in comparative education of education reforms. It provides directions in education, and policy research, relevant to p- gressive pedagogy, social change and transformational educational reforms in the twenty-first century. The book critically examines the overall interplay between the state, ideology and current discourses of education reforms in the global culture. It draws upon recent studies in the areas of globalisation, academic achievement, standards, equity and the role of the State (Carnoy 1999; Zajda 2008a, b). It explores c- ceptual frameworks and methodological approaches applicable in the research covering the State, globalisation, and quality-driven education reforms. It dem- strates the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of education and policy reform, affecting schooling globally (see also Zajda 2005). Various book chapters critique the dominant discourses and debates pertaining to comparative education d- courses on reforms and neo-liberal ideology in education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Australia

    Joseph Zajda

  • David O. McKay School of Education, Brigham Young University, Provo, U.S.A.

    Macleans A. Geo-JaJa

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