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Comparative education education systems & contemporary issues C.C. Wolhuter, E.M. Lemmer, N.C. de Wet, editors.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pretoria - South Africa : Van Schaik, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 267 pages illustrations, maps 25 cm Media type:
  • Book
ISBN:
  • 0627026753
  • 9780627026751
  • 9780627028410
  • 0627028411
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.195 WOL 22
Online resources:
Contents:
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE EDUCATION -- The development of comparative education -- Aims, uses and significance of comparative education. PART II: NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEMS -- South Africa -- The education system of Botswana -- A legal history of elementary and secondary student education in the United States: Balancing the rights and responsibilities of the various stakeholders -- Education in Australia -- Education in India -- The European Union and education. PART III: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATION: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- Multicultural education and diversity in schooling -- Parent involvement in education -- Higher education: Vanguard of education system faces change -- Curriculum reform -- Violence in schools.
Summary: Education has been dramatically reformed worldwide over the last few decades. In this age of globalisation; student teachers; Education students and scholars of the social sciences in general need to take careful note of these changes. Comparative Education: education systems and contemporary issues contains separate chapters in which a selection of education systems - South Africa; Botswana; the United States; Australia and India; as well as the emerging education dispensation of the European Union - are discussed. Each of these chapters is written by a renowned specialist of comparative education residing and working in the particular country. The other chapters of the book deal with issues in education: values and ideologies in education; cultural diversity; gender issues; higher education; curricular reform and violence in schools. The book commences with an outline of the historical evolution of comparative education and its significance
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE EDUCATION -- The development of comparative education -- Aims, uses and significance of comparative education. PART II: NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEMS -- South Africa -- The education system of Botswana -- A legal history of elementary and secondary student education in the United States: Balancing the rights and responsibilities of the various stakeholders -- Education in Australia -- Education in India -- The European Union and education. PART III: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATION: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- Multicultural education and diversity in schooling -- Parent involvement in education -- Higher education: Vanguard of education system faces change -- Curriculum reform -- Violence in schools.

Education has been dramatically reformed worldwide over the last few decades. In this age of globalisation; student teachers; Education students and scholars of the social sciences in general need to take careful note of these changes. Comparative Education: education systems and contemporary issues contains separate chapters in which a selection of education systems - South Africa; Botswana; the United States; Australia and India; as well as the emerging education dispensation of the European Union - are discussed. Each of these chapters is written by a renowned specialist of comparative education residing and working in the particular country. The other chapters of the book deal with issues in education: values and ideologies in education; cultural diversity; gender issues; higher education; curricular reform and violence in schools. The book commences with an outline of the historical evolution of comparative education and its significance

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