Post-socialism is not dead : (re)reading the global in comparative education / edited by Iveta Silova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silova, Iveta.

Series:

International perspectives on education and society ; v. 14.

International perspectives on education and society, 1479-3679 ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume will provide a comparative account of the meanings and processes of post-socialist transformations in education by exploring recent theories, concepts, and debates on post-socialism and globalization in national, regional, and international contexts.

Contents:

Rediscovering post-socialism in comparative education / Iveta Silova

Education after the fall of the Berlin Wall : the end of history or the beginning of histories? / Olga Bain

Policy why(s) : policy rationalities and the changing logic of educational reform in postcommunist Ukraine / Olena Fimyar

Visions of reform in post-socialist Romania : decentralizsation (through hybridization) and teacher autonomy / Monica E. Mincu, Irina Horga

Rethinking transition through ideas of 'community' in Hungarian kindergarten curriculum / Zsuzsa Millei, Robert J. Imre

A framework for understanding dramatic change : educational transformation in post-soviet Russia / Eleoussa Polyzoi, Eduard Dneprov

The semblance of progress amidst the absence of change : educating for an imagined Europe in Moldova and Albania / Meg P. Gardinier, Elizabeth Anderson Worden

Rewriting the nation : World War II narratives in Polish history textbooks / Magdalena Gross

When intolerance means more than prejudice : challengs to Lithuanian education reforms for social tolerance / Christine Beresniova

Transnational vitality of the Finno-Ugric identity in Estonia : the role of education and advocacy in a new geopolitical context / Kara D. Brown

The reconfiguration of state-university-student relationships in post/socialist China / Heidi Ross, Ran Zhang, Wanxia Zhao

Socialist, post-socialist, and post-post socialist transformations of education in Nicaragua / Anita Sanyal

Staying the (post)socialist course : global/local transformations and Cuban education / Noah W. Sobe, Renee N. Timberlake

African socialism, post-colonial development, and education : change and continuity in the post-socialist era / Diane Brook Napier

Beyond post-socialist conversions : functional cooperation and trans-regional regimes in the global south / Tavis D. Jules.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

1-282-96405-4

9786612964053

0-85724-418-3

OCLC:

700706506