Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zajda, Joseph. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research ; 11
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculum planning.; International and Comparative Education.; Curriculum Studies.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3524-0

The eleventh in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, this work sets out to explore the interrelationship between ideology and education reforms, setting it in a global context. With this as its focus, the chapters represent hand-picked scholarly researc...

Table of Contents:

• Preface, Joseph Zajda. Acknowledgements. Introduction
• SECTION I: MAIN TRENDS AND ISSUES- 1. The Politics of the New History School Textbooks in the Russian Federation: 1992-2004, Joseph Zajda
• 2. Japanese National Curriculum Standards Reform: Integrated Study and its Challenges, Mohammad Reza Sarkar Arani, Keisuke Fukaya
• 3. Social Inequality in Education: Investigating the Achievement Gap in Israel, Iris BenDavid- Hadar
• 4. Implementation of Reform Policies: The Issue of Structural and Cultural Discordance,- Suseela Malakolunthu
• 5. Globalisation, Decentralisation and Privatisation: Implications for Education. David Turner
• 6. School-Based Management Policies and Programs: Improving Teaching-Learning Environments and Student Achievements in Indonesia, Agustinus Bandur, David T. Gamage
• SECTION II: EQUALITY, ACCESS AND DEMOCRACY- 7. Education in China: The Urban/Rural Disparity Explained, Patricia Ayoroa, Bethany Bailey, Audrey Crossen, Macleans A.Geo-JaJa
• 8. Accommodating to Globalisation, Nationalisation and Localisation of Patriotic School Education in Hong Kong, Lau Chui Shan
• 9. Urban and Rural Students Attitudes to University: Narratives of Difference, Madeleine Mattarozzi Laming
• 10. Educational Reform in Russia: Strategies of Survival and Change, Eleoussa Polyzoi, Tatiana Nazarenko
• 11. Teachers Surviving to Teach: Implications for Post-Soviet Education and Society in Central Asia, Sarfaroz Niyozov, Duishon Shamatov
• Index.