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In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more modest in practice. This book examines innovations in several developing countries, presenting case studies of technological, curricular, and organizational innovations selected for their magnitude in financial investment, scope, and duration. The case studies explore the social and political contexts that shaped the features of these innovations and what they accomplished over time in terms of teacher cost reduction, status mobility, access to education, and national unity. The experience of countries such as Brazil, Lesotho, the Philippines, and Namibia, and the influence of international agencies such as the World Bank are described and analyzed against theories of social and organizational change. The case studies themselves also serve as subjects for reflection on the prevailing positivist approaches to research and knowledge. "The Politics of" "Educational Innovations" should be of considerable interest to students of educational change, wither in the academic world or in the fields of government and international cooperation.

This book examines the approach to civic education and its recent re-emergence in the Pacific Rim and the US. Under the influence of globalization, nationalism and sovereignty the authors reveal how definitions of citizenship are contested.

The authors offer the reader a new perspective on Japanese education and society that demonstrates the successes and problems faced by Japanese students, parents and teachers.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book aims to provide an explanation for the slow introduction into Japan of development education.

Surveys educational policies and practices in response to language diversity in twelve countries, and draws from them lessons for a more effective whole-school approach. Policies and practices are discussed in the context of political debate within minority communities and in the wider society of e

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An analysis of schooling in both the US and Japan.

This book investigates the relationships between education and national development in an area of the world where both have acquired considerable importance.

This collection of ethnographic studies of Chinese schooling explores the meaning of ethnography, both in describing Chinese schools and in the broader context of the defined purposes and practices of research.

A collection of ten essays advocating the important link between social justice and education and pointing out the threats posed to both by internal policy and budgeting. The contributors include a selection of international scholars and program administrators presenting their views on Third World

A collection of essays which consider the recent changes in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden brought about by the problems in implementing a democratic educational policy given the political, religious and economic changes Scandinavia is currently undergoing. This is volume 39 in the REFERENCE BOOKS IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION series.

This book explored global issues in the professional development of science teachers, and considers classroom applications of teacher training with a comparative lens.

Presenting findings of research conducted on five continents, this work discusses equal opportunity for education. Chapters address current gender issues as well as specific problems facing policy makers and professionals alike.

Presents a study of the politics of history education in East Asia, analyzes the content of official syllabi and the ways in which authorized explanations have developed in response to changes in domestic and international politics.

This volume focuses on policies and practices in the education of China's national minorities with the purpose of assessing the goals and impact of state sponsored education for China's non-Han people's.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book identifies and examines the cultural conditions and circumstances that influence the process of educational decision making for girls in Nepal.

This book debunks the argument that quality in education can only be achieved by limiting, or trading off, equality. This book argues that any worthy definition of quality education must include the interest of the underprivileged.

This book contrasts the interrelationship between state formation and Chinese school politics in postwar Singapore and Hong Kong.