Comparative Education
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Edited by Ken Kempner, Marcela Mollis and William G. Tierney

ISBN: 00-536-01215-6
Publisher: Pearson Custom Publishing

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Features of this title include:

  • Emphasizes a cultural perspective with readings that represent a divers vision of theory and methodology in comparative education
  • Engages readers in the pragmatic debate between modernist and postmodernist perspectives and between structuralist and poststructuralist models
  • Presents a "world systems analysis" that explores the dependent relationships among nations in economics, politics, and education in the creation and exchange of knowledge
  • Organized in five sections: Introduction, Faculty Work and the Production of Knowledge, Organizational Contexts, The State, and The Social Context of Higher Education
 




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