Critical approaches to comparative education : vertical case studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas / edited by Frances Vavrus and Lesley Bartlett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vavrus, Frances Katherine.

Bartlett, Lesley.

Series:

International & development education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative education--Case studies.

Comparative education.

Education and state--Case studies.

Education and state.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 263 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

"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.'"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Knowing, Comparatively / Lesley Bartlett, Frances Vavrus 1

Part 1 Appropriating Educational Policies and Programs

1 Localizing No Child Left Behind: Supplemental Educational Services (SES) in New York City / Jill P. Koyama 21

2 The Décalage and Bricolage of Higher Education Policymaking in an Inter/National System: The Unintended Consequences of Participation in the 1992 Senegalese CNES Reform / Rosemary Max 39

3 Aids and Edutainment: Inter/National Health Education in Tanzanian Secondary Schools / Tonya Muro Phillips 57

Part 2 Exploring Participation in Inter/National Development Discourse

4 Questioning Participation: Exploring Discourses and Practices of Community Participation in Education Reform in Tanzania / Aleesba Taylor 75

5 Living Participation: Considering the Promise and Politics of Participatory Educational Reforms in Brazil / Moira Wilkinson 93

6 Transformative Teaching in Restrictive Times: Engaging Teacher Participation in Small School Reform during an Era of Standardization / Maria Hantzopoulos 111

Part 3 Examining the Political Economy of Diversity

7 "Migration Nation" : Intercultural Education and Anti-Racism as Symbolic Violence in Celtic Tiger Ireland / Audrey Bryan 129

8 "Don't You Want Your Child to Be Better than You?" : Enacting Ideologies and Contesting Intercultural Policy in Peru / Laura Alicia Valdiviezo 147

9 Citizenship and Belonging in an Age of Insecurity: Pakistani Immigrant Youth in New York City / Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher 163

Part 4 Managing Conflict through Inter/National Development Education

10 The Relief-Development Transition: Sustainability and Educational Support in Post-Conflict Settings / Mary Mendenhall 181

11 Perpetuated Suffering: Social Injustice in Liberian Teachers' Lives / Janet Shriberg 199

12 Positioning Arabic in Schools: Language Policy, National Identity, and Development in Contemporary Lebanon / Zeena Zakhari 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230615977

023061597X

OCLC:

369141626