Journal of Comparative Education and International Relations in Africa
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 108
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Critical Approaches to Comparative Education
Author: F. Vavrus
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-12-07
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0230101763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book unites a dynamic group of scholars who examine linkages among local, national, and international levels of educational policy and practice. Utilizing multi-sited, ethnographic approaches, the essays explore vertical interactions across diverse levels of policy and practice while prompting horizontal comparisons across twelve sites in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. The vertical case studies focus on a range of topics, including participatory development, the politics of culture and language, neoliberal educational reforms, and education in post-conflict settings. Editors Vavrus and Bartlett contribute to comparative theory and practice by demonstrating the advantages of thinking vertically.
Comparative Education
Author: Mark Bray
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9400710941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents perspectives on the changes that have taken place within the field of comparative education, while noting various continuing traditions. Its contributors come from a wide range of countries and contexts, and present their work within a framework set by the 11th congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). The book makes a valuable methodological as well as a conceptual contribution to the field.
Education, Skills and International Cooperation
Author: Kenneth King
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 303029790X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book highlights some of Kenneth King’s diverse contributions to international and comparative education, African studies and development studies over more than four decades. From his pioneering work on the first educational commissions to Africa, through his research on skills training in the informal sector, and on to his critical analysis of education analysis in development agencies, this book makes influential materials available in one place. Appropriately, it illustrates his career-long connections with Kenya, but also his more recent engagement with Japan, China and India. It is the first CERC volume to pay significant attention to the policies and politics of skills development. Kenneth King is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Edinburgh. He was based in and directed its Centre of African Studies for many years, and lectured on international perspectives in education and training in its School of Education. His research interests have addressed the politics and planning of skills development, including in the informal sector of the economy, aid policies towards education of both Western and Asian donors, and higher education cooperation. He founded NORRAG, the network for international policies and cooperation in education and training, in 1986, and edited NORRAG News until 2016. He was President of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) from 2014-2016, and was one of the founding members of the UK Forum on International Education and Training (UKFIET).
Doing Comparative Education Research
Author: Keith Watson
Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1873927835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the newly emerging global economic order governments and policy makers are keen to seek ideas from other countries and recognise the importance of looking comparatively. This expansion of interest in comparative education brings new challenges for the discipline: research may be undertaken by non-specialists (by consultants and politicians or educationists from quite different backgrounds); the short lifespan of democratically elected governments may lend attraction to ‘quick-fix’ solutions; statistics and data may be decontextualised. Added to these challenges there is the worldwide proliferation of education providers outside state control and the transformation of teaching and learning brought about by the new information technology. This book rethinks the role of comparative education in the light of these changing circumstances and looks at the new opportunities they bring.
Imagining the United States of Africa
Author: E. Ike Udogu
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015-02-10
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 149850776X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book frames the debates around the pressing desire for some form of unification that found expression in the pan-Africanist movement and formation of the Organization of African Unity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1963 following the advent of home-rule for many former colonies of the Western powers. Discussions in this volume address the following fundamental issues: nationalism and political integration and how the contradictions between both philosophies can be resolved; the amelioration of corruption in order to attract internal and external investments critical for developing the vast natural resources housed in the continent; the need for Africa’s adaptation to the ideology and practice of capitalism and liberal globalization to suit the character of African states in a projected federal United States of Africa; solutions to ethnic conflicts that are bound to happen over clashes of competing group interests; the indispensability and promotion of information communication technologies and urgent need to strengthen a network of regional electric power grids that would provide constant energy to the Union and lead to improvement in communication and economic growth; and recommendation of social democracy as the genre of democracy suitable for a proposed United States of Africa.
Comparative and International Education
Author: C. C. Wolhuter
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2019-08-26
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1787433919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the evolution and current state of the scholarly field of comparative and international education over 200 years of development. Experts in the field explore comparative and international education in each of the major world regions.
Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa
Author: Kelechi A. Kalu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1351960199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa examines how decision makers have managed and mismanaged public policy issues in sub-Saharan Africa. It analyses the neglected issue of how ideas about public policy are generated, by whom and for what purpose. Persistent problems such as political instability, environmental pollution, famine, hunger, desertification, rent-seeking and incessant intra-conflicts across the continent are explored in a systematic and structured manner. Each contributor proffers convincing solutions to clearly identified problems. Well-researched and solution orientated, this book will engage scholars and policy makers who are interested in public policy and development issues in Africa.
International Handbook of Comparative Education
Author: Robert Cowen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-08-22
Total Pages: 1371
ISBN-13: 1402064039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis two-volume compendium brings together leading scholars from around the world who provide authoritative studies of the old and new epistemic motifs and theoretical strands that have characterized the interdisciplinary field of comparative and international education in the last 50 years. It analyses the shifting agendas of scholarly research, the different intellectual and ideological perspectives and the changing methodological approaches used to examine and interpret education and pedagogy across different political formations, societies and cultures.
The Elusive African Renaissance
Author: George Klay Kieh, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-09-12
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1476667748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica faces several major development challenges that have adversely affected the political and material well being of the majority of the people living there. This collection of new essays rigorously analyzes those frontier development issues--including democracy, leadership, the economy, poverty alleviation through microfinance schemes, food security, education, health and political instability--and offers prescriptions that differ from the dominant neoliberal solutions.
