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Local Meanings, Global Schooling: Anthropology and World Culture Theory
Kat Anderson-Levitt
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Description for Local Meanings, Global Schooling: Anthropology and World Culture Theory
Paperback. Editor(s): Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHM; JNA; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 305.
Is there one global culture of schooling, or many national and local cultures? Do educational reforms take school systems on diverging or parallel paths? These case studies from five continents use ethnography and history to challenge the sweeping claims of sociology's world culture theory (neo-institutionalism). They demonstrate how national ministries of education and local schools re-invent every reform. Yet the cases also show that teachers and local reformers operate 'within and against' global models. Anthropologists need to recognize the global presence in local schooling as well as local transformation of global models. This is a collection that scholars in the ... Read more
Is there one global culture of schooling, or many national and local cultures? Do educational reforms take school systems on diverging or parallel paths? These case studies from five continents use ethnography and history to challenge the sweeping claims of sociology's world culture theory (neo-institutionalism). They demonstrate how national ministries of education and local schools re-invent every reform. Yet the cases also show that teachers and local reformers operate 'within and against' global models. Anthropologists need to recognize the global presence in local schooling as well as local transformation of global models. This is a collection that scholars in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
305g
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403961631
SKU
V9781403961631
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About Kat Anderson-Levitt
LESLEY BARTLETT, Teachers College, Columbia University BOUBACAR BAYERO DIALLO, Université de Conakry and Université de Québec à Montréal DIANE BROOK NAPIER, University of Georgia THOMAS HATCH, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching SUSAN JUNGK, National-Louis University BOONREANG KAJORNSIN, Kasetsart University, Bangkok JOHN D. NAPIER, University of Georgia HUAHUA OUYANG, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies FRANCISCO O. RAMIREZ, Stanford University ... Read more
Reviews for Local Meanings, Global Schooling: Anthropology and World Culture Theory
'All the contributors are of an exceptionally high standard and are of equal interest to anthropologists and specialists with an interest in comparative education.' - C.W.Watson, British Journal of Educational Studies