Education and social development : : global issues and analyses / / Ali A. Abdi, Shibao Guo.
The role of education in the development of societies is an important life perspective that is promoted by families, institutions and governments. In today’s globalized world, this reality may presume a worldwide platform where what is termed knowledge societies could gain at the expense of the educ...
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| Superior document: | Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices ; 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Comparative and International Education: Diversity of Voices ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Ali A. Abdi and Shibao Guo
- Education and social development: An introduction / Ali A. Abdi and Shibao Guo
- ‘Rivers of Babylon’: Traditions in education for development / Cecille DePasse
- Continuities of racism and inclusive citizenship: Framing global citizenship and human rights education / Ali A. Abdi and Lynette Shultz
- Globalization and indigenous knowledge: An African post-colonial theoretical analysis / Edward Shizha
- The hegemony of English as a global language / Yan Guo and Gulbahar H. Beckett
- China at the cross roads / Shibao Guo
- Caste, dalits and education in contemporary India / Dip Kapoor
- Globalization, education and women in India / Ratna Ghosh
- Exploring the impact of HIV/AIDS education in women in sub-Saharan Africa / Tsion Demeke-Abate
- Decolonizing schooling and education in Ghana / Paul Adjei and George Dei
- Student loans in Ghana and Burkina–Faso / Touorouzou Some
- Higher education and development in Zimbabwe / Michael Kariwo
- From ‘education for all to education for none’ / Ali A. Abdi
- The Penguin Revolution: Student resistance to the neo-liberalization of education in Chile / Donna M. Chovanec and Alexandra Benitez
- The physical, philosophical and political domains of educational development and reconstruction / J. Tim Goddard
- Educational modernization in Russia / Tatiana Gounko
- Education and development in the Caribbean / Jean Walrond
- Index / Ali A. Abdi and Shibao Guo.