Comparative Education: Exploring Issues in International Context - Softcover

Kubow, Patricia K.; Fossum, Paul R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131719807 ISBN 13: 9780131719804

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

This is a core text for graduate-level Comparative Education courses. 

 

With its cross-cultural, isues-oriented approach, Comparative Education introduces K-12 educational systems worldwide. Readers are invited to consider current educational issues both at home and abroad, while developing global perspectives and skills of comparative inquiry to use their own reflective classroom teaching.

 

Chapters on theory in compartive education, frameworks for analyzing educational issues, and globalization's implications for education explore several key issues in depth: purposes of schooling, educational access and opportunity, education accountability and authority, and teacher professionalism.

 

This book takes an issues-based approach rather than a country-based approach.  A major purpose of this book is to widen the field of comparative education's influence by articulating the relevance of comparative education to include a larger, practitioner-oriented audience. 

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Patricia K. Kubow is an Assistant Professor in Educational Foundations and Inquiry at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Her scholarship is focused on comparative and international education, democratic citizenship education, teacher education, educational policy, and comparative higher education.

Dr. Paul R. Fossum is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. His scholarship is focused on comparative and international education, teacher education, social aspects of education technology, and institutional cooperation in higher education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131719807
• ISBN 13: 9780131719804
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336