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Critical Approaches to Comparative Education

Vertical Case Studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas

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Editors:
  1. Frances Vavrus
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  2. Lesley Bartlett
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Part of the book series: International and Development Education (INTDE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction Knowing, Comparatively

    1. Introduction Knowing, Comparatively

      • Lesley Bartlett, Frances Vavrus
      Pages 1-18

  3. Appropriating Educational Policies and Programs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Localizing No Child Left Behind Supplemental Educational Services (SES) in New York City

      • Jill P. Koyama
      Pages 21-37

    3. The Décalage and Bricolage of Higher Education Policymaking in an Inter/National System

      • Rosemary Max
      Pages 39-55

    4. AIDS and Edutainment

      • Tonya Muro Phillips
      Pages 57-71

  4. Exploring Participation in Inter/National Development Discourse

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Questioning Participation

      • Aleesha Taylor
      Pages 75-92

    3. Living Participation

      • Moira Wilkinson
      Pages 93-109

    4. Transformative Teaching in Restrictive Times

      • Maria Hantzopoulos
      Pages 111-126

  5. Examining the Political Economy of Diversity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Migration Nation

      • Audrey Bryan
      Pages 129-145

    3. Don’t You Want Your Child to Be Better than You

      • Laura Alicia Valdiviezo
      Pages 147-162

    4. Citizenship and Belonging in an Age of Insecurity

      • Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
      Pages 163-178

  6. Managing Conflict through Inter/National Development Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. The Relief-Development Transition

      • Mary Mendenhall
      Pages 181-197

    3. Perpetuated Suffering

      • Janet Shriberg
      Pages 199-214

    4. Positioning Arabic in Schools

      • Zeena Zakharia
      Pages 215-231

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 233-263
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About this book

This book unites a dynamic group of scholars who examine linkages among local, national, and international levels of educational policy and practice. Utilizing multi-sited, ethnographic approaches, the essays explore vertical interactions across diverse levels of policy and practice while prompting horizontal comparisons across twelve sites in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. The vertical case studies focus on a range of topics, including participatory development, the politics of culture and language, neoliberal educational reforms, and education in post-conflict settings. Editors Vavrus and Bartlett contribute to comparative theory and practice by demonstrating the advantages of thinking vertically.

Reviews

"This book heralds a new era in the study of comparative education. The authors weave a rich tapestry using ethnographic and other data to illustrate in vivid detail the working out of educational policy and practice in varied locations around the world. It sets the standard for the integration of vertical and horizontal approaches." - Vandra L. Masemann is Adjunct Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Comparative, International, and Development Education Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

"Vavrus and Bartlett truly do offer Critical Approaches to Comparative Education and the book is a must-read for the field.Most especially, the development of vertical cases transforms classroom and other micro studies by an integration of national and global contexts and should be of great interest to comparative and international educators as well as to all qualitative researchers concerned with case studies and ethnographies." - Steven J. Klees, Former President, Comparative and International Education Society, and Harold R.W. Benjamin Professor of International and Comparative Education, University of Maryland

About the authors

Jill P. Koyama, University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA Rosemary Max, Loyola University Chicago, USA Tonya Muro, Global Nomads Group, USA Aleesha Taylor, Open Society Institute, USA Moira Wilkinson, UNICEF Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College, USA Audrey Bryan, University College Dublin, Ireland Laura Alicia Valdiviezo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, University of Pennsylvania, USA Mary Mendenhall, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA Janet Shriberg, University of Denver, USA Zeena Zakharia, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

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