Critical Approaches to Comparative Education Vertical Case Studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas
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Author Biography
Frances Vavrus is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Desire and Decline: Schooling Amid Crisis in Tanzania and a recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship for research in Tanzania. She is a member of the Board of the Comparative and International Education Society.
Lesley Bartlett is Associate Professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Word and the World: The Cultural Politics of Literacy in Brazil. She is a recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for research in the Dominican Republic.
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. ix |
Series Editors' Introduction | p. xi |
Acknowledgment | p. xiii |
List of Abbreviations | p. xv |
Introduction: Knowing, Comparatively | p. 1 |
Appropriating Educational Policies and Programs | |
Localizing No Child Left Behind: Supplemental Educational Services (SES) in New York City | p. 21 |
The Décalage and Bricolage of Higher Education Policymaking in an Inter/National System: The Unintended Consequences of Participation in the 1992 Senegalese CNES Reform | p. 39 |
Aids and Edutainment: Inter/National Health Education in Tanzanian Secondary Schools | p. 57 |
Exploring Participation in Inter/National Development Discourse | |
Questioning Participation: Exploring Discourses and Practices of Community Participation in Education Reform in Tanzania | p. 75 |
Living Participation: Considering the Promise and Politics of Participatory Educational Reforms in Brazil | p. 93 |
Transformative Teaching in Restrictive Times: Engaging Teacher Participation in Small School Reform during an Era of Standardization | p. 111 |
Examining the Political Economy of Diversity | |
"Migration Nation": Intercultural Education and Anti-Racism as Symbolic Violence in Celtic Tiger Ireland | p. 129 |
"Don't You Want Your Child to Be Better than You?": Enacting Ideologies and Contesting Intercultural Policy in Peru | p. 147 |
Citizenship and Belonging in an Age of Insecurity: Pakistani Immigrant Youth in New York City | p. 163 |
Managing Conflict through Inter/National Development Education | |
The Relief-Development Transition: Sustainability and Educational Support in Post-Conflict Settings | p. 181 |
Perpetuated Suffering: Social Injustice in Liberian Teachers' Lives | p. 199 |
Positioning Arabic in Schools: Language Policy, National Identity, and Development in Contemporary Lebanon | p. 215 |
References | p. 233 |
Contributors | p. 253 |
Index | p. 257 |
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