Comparative and International Education: Issues for Teachers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551303337 ISBN 13: 9781551303338

Publisher: Canadian Scholars, 2008

Synopsis

This comprehensive new text explores major issues in education today through international and intercultural research. The contributors draw on comparative research from North America, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, and touch on themes including history and philosophy of comparative education, the right to education, teacher formation, alternative pedagogies, testing, multiculturalism, gender, conflict resolution, and global citizenship. Offering a vivid portrayal of global educational practices, contributions from preeminent scholars, and invaluable teaching resources, this text is vital reading for teachers, teachers-in-training, and comparative education scholars.

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Review:

This is a timely, well crafted, and topically important work that adds so much to our understanding of the past trajectories, actual realities, and future prospects of comparative and international education. By combining the historical and the sociological with the philosophical and the geographical, the editors and their contributors achieve an excellent perspective that should refine the way we understand and interact with the contours and intersections of comparative and international education. The book will, undoubtedly, serve the interests of scholars, students, and the wider public. - Ali A. Abdi, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta

Synopsis:

This text explores major issues in education today through international and intercultural research. Suitable both for teachers and graduate students, the book stimulates students to reflect on their future roles in education through exposure to debates about teaching and learning in diverse settings. Authors draw on comparative research from North America, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, and touch on themes including history and philosophy of comparative education, the right to education, teacher formation, alternative pedagogies, testing, multiculturalism, gender, conflict resolution and global citizenship. With its vivid portrayal of global educational practices, contributions from pre-eminent scholars, and suggested teaching resources, this anthology will be an excellent resource for teacher education and graduate level courses.

About this edition

• Publisher: Canadian Scholars
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1551303337
• ISBN 13: 9781551303338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Mundy Karen, Bickmore Kathy, Hayhoe Ruth, Madden Meggan, Madjidi Katherine