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Title Local meanings, global schooling : anthropology and world culture theory / edited by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.43 L786 2003    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 263 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents World culture of schooling? / Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt -- "Thai wisdom" and GloCalization : negotiating the global and the local in Thailand's national education reform / Susan Jungck with Boonreang Kajornsin -- Transformations in South Africa : policies and practices from ministry to classroom / Diane Brook Napier -- Teaching by the book in Guinea / Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt and Boubacar Bayero Diallo -- Beyond the "one best system"? Developing alternative approaches to instruction in the United States / Thomas Hatch and Meredith L. Honig -- Resistance to the communicative method of language instruction within a progressive Chinese university / Huhua Ouyang -- World-cultural and anthropological interpretations of "choice programming" in Tanzania / Amy Stambach -- Politics of identity and the marketization of U.S. schools : how local meanings mediate global struggles / Lisa Rosen -- World culture or transnational project? Competing educational projects in Brazil / Lesley Bartlett -- Europeanization and French primary education : local implications of supranational policies / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Transforming the culture of scientific education in Israel / Kalanit Segal-Levit -- Global model and national legacies / Francisco O. Ramirez.
Subject Educational anthropology.
Comparative education.
Added Author Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M.
ISBN 1403961638 (pbk.)
140396162X (hbk.)
Standard No. UKM bA3Y6042
UKM bA349810

 
    
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