Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zajda, Joseph (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research ; 11
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Educational Policy and Politics.; International and Comparative Education.; Curriculum Studies.; Sociology of Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

The eleventh in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, this work sets out to explore the interrelationship between ideology and education reforms, setting it in a global context. With this as its focus, the chapters represent hand-picked scholarly researc...

Table of Contents:

• Main Trends and Issues
• The Politics of the New History School Textbooks in the Russian Federation
• Constructing the Australian School History Curriculum: Ideology, High Politics and the History Wars in the Howard Years
• Teachers, History Wars and Teaching History Grade 6 in Greece
• Why Educational Reforms Fail: The Emergence and Failure of an Educational Reform: A Case Study from Israel
• Japanese National Curriculum Standards Reform: Integrated Study and Its Challenges
• Implementation of Education Reform Policies: The Issue of Structural and Cultural Discordance
• Education Reforms: Implication for Democracy
• Education in China: The Urban/Rural Disparity Explained
• The Academic Achievement Gap in Israel: Inequality in Education
• Stories of Difference: Metropolitan and Rural Students’ Attitudes to University
• Teachers Surviving to Teach: Implications for Post-Soviet Education and Society in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
• The Politics of Education Reforms and Policy Shifts in the Russian Federation.