Ferment in Education: A Look AbroadJohn J. Lane University of Chicago Press, 5 nov 1995 - 204 pagine These eleven essays are a timely response by an international set of authorities to the deepening interest in research comparing educational systems from countries around the world. The contributors chronicle the substantial growth and changing focus of comparative education, offer criticism of this type of research, and describe recent developments in education worldwide. Topics include a profile of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement and a summary of the organization’s key findings; the impact of international agencies like the World Bank on the reconstruction of schooling in Africa; the effects of social upheaval on education in Russia; the expansion of secondary education and independent schools in the new Czech Republic; the removal of vestiges of Communism from civic education in Romania; new forms of teacher training in Israel and China; and reforms in the entrance examination process in Japan. The contributors are scholars at universities in Australia, China, Europe, Israel, and the United States, a Romanian school inspector, and a research pyschologist from the United States. |
Sommario
Chapter | 1 |
Nedelcu 60 | 99 |
Ariav and Aaron Seidenberg | 122 |
Torsten Husén | 157 |
The Dim Shinings of International Comparisons Gerald W Bracey | 190 |
Parole e frasi comuni
achievement Africa African education agencies American basic Beit Berl College cation central challenge civic education common Communist comparative education Constantin Angelescu countries course critical curriculum Czech Republic demic economic educa education policy Educational Reform educational system effects enrolled entrance examination European Union faculty findings funding and research goals grade graduates high school higher education ideology IEA research IEA studies implementation important institutions international comparisons issues Japan Japanese Kenya kibbutz leadership learning major mathematics ment Ministry of Education NCER nomic organization participation particular percent perspective policymakers political primary primary education problems role Romanian Romanian Communist Party Russian sample school reform school system scores secondary education secondary schools social society Soviet Soviet Union structure Sub-Saharan Africa subject areas Tanzania teacher education teacher training teaching terminal secondary tion tional UNESCO universities Williamsburg World Bank