World Yearbook of Education 2001: Values, Culture and Education

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ISBN: 9780749434724 | 0749434724
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/1/2000

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Annual yearbook exploring the most current issues in education. Discusses values and culture, re-examining the way these crucial elements affect the way various groups are seen. Debates who should decide upon the values to be adopted to guide behavior in the modern world, with global case studies to clarify.

List of contributors

Series editors' introduction

vii

General introduction: Globalization and educational cultures in late modernity: the Agamemnon syndrome

(16)

Andreas M Kazamias

SECTION I: PERSPECTIVES ON VALUES, CULTURE AND EDUCATION

Values, culture and education: an overview

(10)

Denis Lawton

Robert Cowen

Moral perspectives on values, culture and education

(19)

Wing On Lee

Religious perspectives on values, culture and education

(21)

Jo Cairns

Economic perspectives on values, culture and education: Markets in education-a cautionary note

(18)

John Mace

Legal perspectives on values, culture and education: human rights, responsibilities and values in education

(22)

Audrey Osler

Hugh Starkey

SECTION II: CHANGING VALUES AND CULTURES IN EDUCATION: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES

Mapping patterns of change in cultures and schools

107

(15)

Roy Gardner

Changing cultures and schools in Australia

122

(23)

David Aspin

Judith Chapman

Val Klenowski

Changing cultures and schools in Brazil

145

(13)

Candido Alberto Gomes

Clelia de Freitas Capanema

Changing cultures and schools in Canada

158

(20)

Geoffrey Milburn

Rebecca Priegert Coulter

Changing cultures and schools in Denmark

178

(12)

Thyge Winther-Jensen

Changing cultures and schools in England and Wales

190

(16)

Brian Davies

John Evans

Changing cultures and schools in France

206

(13)

Olivier Cousin

Changing cultures and schools in Germany

219

(14)

Manfred Kwiran

Changing cultures and schools in Japan

233

(9)

Yoshiko Nomura

Changing cultures and schools in the People's Republic of China

242

(16)

Kai-ming Cheng

Changing cultures and schools in Poland

258

(10)

Janusz Tomiak

Changing cultures and schools in South Africa

268

(11)

Pam Christie

Changing cultures and schools in South Korea

279

(19)

Meesuk Ahn

Paddy Walsh

Changing cultures and schools in the United States of America

298

(19)

Susan Douglas Franzosa

Conclusion

317

(4)

Denis Lawton

Index

321

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World Yearbook of Education 2001: Values, Culture and Education

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