Policy Debates in Comparative, International, and Development Education

✍ Scribed by W. James Jacob, John N. Hawkins

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by two leading scholars in the international and comparative education fields, this collection addresses current education policy trends at the global, regional, national, and local levels.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Series page......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Series Editors Introduction......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 18
Part 1: Overview of Key International Education Policy Debates......Page 24
1 Setting the Global Education Policy Stage: Shifts,Trends, and Perspectives......Page 26
2 The Evolving Nature of Comparative Education Research......Page 35
Part 2: Policy Debates in International Higher Education......Page 48
3 When China Opens to the World: A Study of Transnational Higher Education in Zhejiang, China......Page 50
4 Education Within the Knowledge Industry......Page 68
5 Higher Education and Quality Assurance: Trends and Tensions in Asia......Page 91
6 A Policy Framework for Higher Education in Lebanon:The Role of Strategic Planning......Page 109
7 ICT- Driven Curriculum Reform in Higher Education:Experiences, Prospects, Trends, and Challenges in Africa......Page 128
Part 3: Education Policy Debates with Lasting Consequences......Page 148
8 Making Gender Matter: Paradigms for Equality,Equity, and Excellence......Page 150
9 Leaps or One Step at a Time: Skirting or Helping Engage the Debate? The Case of Reading......Page 174
10 Finessing Foreign Pressure in Education throughDeliberate Policy Failure: Soviet Legacy, Foreign Prescriptions,and Democratic Accountability in Estonia......Page 194
11 Australian Aid and the Development of Education Policy:Reframing Engagement in Papua New Guinea......Page 217
12 The Challenges of Universal Primary Education Policy in Sub- Saharan Africa......Page 243
13 Time Misspent, Opportunities Lost: Use of Time in Schooland Learning......Page 264
Notes on Contributors......Page 282
index......Page 290