| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Education and Social Justice: Issues of Liberty and Equality in the Global Culture -- Education for All and the New Development Compact -- If Only My Eyes Were Different: The Loss of Identity and the Underutilization of Black Children's Educational Potential--Rethinking Assimilation and Social Justice -- Freedom's Children: a Gender Perspective on the Education of the Learner Citizen -- Cultural Diversity as Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: The Emergence of a Global Movement and Convention -- L'apprentissage Précoce des Langues: des Pratiques Sociologiquement et Politiquement Marquees -- Educational Decentralization, Public Spending, and Social Justice in Nigeria -- Social Justice and Gender in Chinese Higher Education: Regional Issues of Equity and Access -- The University for Older Adults: on Cuba's Universalization of the University -- Quality and Equity in Early Childhood Care in Peru -- Cultural Complexity, Postcolonial Perspectives, and Educational Change: Challenges for Comparative Educators |
| Summary |
The book explores the problematic relationship between education, social justice and the State, against the background of comparative education research. Social justice is an attempt to answer the following question: How can we contribute to the creation of a more equitable, respectful, and just society for everyone? The creation of a more equitable, respectful, and just society for everyone is a dream for all empowering and egalitarian pedagogues. But it will remain a mere hollow rhetoric, or magic words, unless we debate more vigorously social inequality in the global culture. The book critiques the existing status quo of stratified school systems, and the unequal distribution of cultural capital and value added schooling |
| Analysis |
onderwijs |
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education |
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onderwijsbeleid |
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educational policy |
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leiderschap |
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leadership |
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Education (General) |
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Onderwijs (algemeen) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Education and state.
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Education -- Social aspects
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Social justice.
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Social Justice
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Social justice.
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Education and state.
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Education -- Social aspects.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Education.
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Education and state
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Education -- Social aspects
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Social justice
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zajda, Joseph I.
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Majhanovich, Suzanne.
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Rust, Val Dean.
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| ISBN |
9781402047220 |
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1402047223 |
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1402047215 |
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9781402047213 |
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1281067687 |
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9781281067685 |
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9786611067687 |
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661106768X |
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