Education in Comparative Perspective : : New Lessons from around the World / / edited by York W. Bradshaw.

• Superior document: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; 63
• TeilnehmendeR: Bradshaw, York W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill,, 1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; 63.; International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The 9 articles in this volume look at a variety of educational issues around the world and examine what they say about current theories. Papers discuss critical substantive issues, such as the role of the state in the educational process, the importance of female education in the development process, the influence of a distinctive Asian model of education on the Asian "economic miracle" and vocational training systems. All papers relate substantive processes to theory in some way and are explicitly comparative, either by relating at least two countries or by making broader points in the fields of education and sociology. Together they cover topics and cases throughout different regions of the world, including Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, as well as the United States.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Editor: York W. Bradshaw -- Introduction / York W. Bradshaw -- The Debt Crisis, Structural Adjustment and Women's Education / Claudia Buchmann -- Educating Girls in the Third World / Kenneth Hadden and Bruce London -- Self-Help Secondary Education in Kenya / Agustino M. Zamberia -- Policy Action and School Demand in Kenya / York W. Bradshaw and Bruce Fuller -- Did Black Literacy Rise After Soweto? / Bruce Fuller , Xiaoyan Liang , and Haiyan Hua -- Early Education, Children's Lives, and the Transition from Home to School in Italy and the United States / William A. Corsaro -- A Political Sociology of Education and Development in Latin America / Robert F. Arnove , Alberto Torres , Stephen Franz , and Kimberly Morse -- Human Capital Formation and School Expansion in Asia / David P. Baker and Donald B. Holsinger -- Institutional Arrangements of Germany's Vocational Education System / Sabine Rieble-Aubourg -- Contributors / Editor: York W. Bradshaw -- New at Amsterdam University Press / Editor: York W. Bradshaw -- The Middle Class and Democracy in Socio-Historical Perspective / Editor: York W. Bradshaw -- Modernizing China / Editor: York W. Bradshaw.