Local Meanings, Global Schooling

by Kathryn Anderson-Levitt

Overview

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 field of the anthropology of education will not want to be without.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230256620
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	05/02/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	719 KB

About the Author

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
DEBORAH REED-DANAHAY, University of Texas-Arlington
LISA ROSEN, University of Chicago
KALANIT SEGAL-LEVIT, Haifa University
AMY STAMBACH, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Table of Contents

Introduction: A world Culture of Schooling?; K.M.Anderson-Levitt PART I: MINISTRIES AND SCHOOLS TRANSFORM 'Thai Wisdom' and GloCalization: Negotiating the Global and the Local in Thailand's National Education Reform; S.Jungk & B.Kajornsin Transformations in South African Education: Policies and Practices from Ministry to Classroom D.Brook Napier & J.D.Napier Teaching by the Book in Guinea; K.M.Anderson-Levitt & B.Bayero Diallo PART II: TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND PARENTS RESPOND The Capacity for Local Control: Developing Alternative Approaches to Instruction in the United States; T.Hatch Resistance to the Communicative Method of Language Instruction Within a Progressive Chinese University; H.Ouyang World-Cultural and Anthropological Interpretations of 'Choice Programming' in Tanzanian Education; A.Stambach The Politics of Identity and the Marketization of Schools: How Local Meanings Mediate Global Struggles; L.Rosen PART III: OUTSIDE OR BEYOND A GLOBAL CULTURE World Culture or Transnational Project? Competing Educational Projects in Brazil; L.Bartlett Europeanization and Education in France: Supranational Policies and Regional Identities; D.Reed-Danahay Transforming the Culture of Scientific Education in Israel; K.Segal-Levit Comment; F.O.Ramirez The Global Model and National Legacies

Editorial Reviews

'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

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