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Discourse Formation in Comparative Education. 4th, Revised Edition. Comparative Studies Series. Volume 10
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Schriewer, Jurgen, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
New theories and theory-based methodological approaches have found their way into Comparative Education--just as into Comparative Social Science more generally--in increasing number in the recent past. The essays of this volume express and critically discuss quite a range of these positions such as, inter alia, the theory of self-organizing social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociology, Theories, Research Methodology
Globalization on the Margins: Education and Post-Socialist Transformations in Central Asia
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Silova, Iveta – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
The essays in "Globalization on the Margins" explore the continuities and changes in Central Asian education development since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Reflecting on two decades of post-socialist transformations, they reveal that education systems in Central Asia responded to the rapidly changing political, economic, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teacher Shortage, Active Learning
Persistent Inequality: Changing Educational Attainment in Thirteen Countries. Social Inequality Series.
Shavit, Yossi, Ed.; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter, Ed. – 1993
This book encompasses a systematic, comparative study of change in educational stratification in 13 industrialized countries, exploring which societal conditions help reduce existing inequalities in educational opportunity. The contributors show that in most industrialized countries inequalities in educational opportunity among students from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations