Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects, Educational Anthropology, Multicultural Education
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Overview
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.
Synopsis
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.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"Anderson-Levitt has brought together a rich array of authors and case studies to show how globalizing trends and policies (such as standardized testing, or teacher autonomy) are appropriated and incorporated into the lived lives of schooling. The book is a model of scholarly engagement; it eschews polemic for a nuanced, yet critical interrogation of world culture theory's central postulates. The inclusion of an incisive final commentary by Francisco O. Ramirez, one of this theory's key proponents, attests to this engaged stance. One of the book's particular strengths is the inclusion of France, the United States, and Israel as case studies, rather than perpetuating the typical 'West and the rest' mentality of much work on globalization." --Bradley A. U. Levinson, Indiana University, author of We Are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School and editor of Schooling the Symbolic Animal: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education
Book Details
Published
May 1, 2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
272
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781403961631