International handbook on globalisation, education and policy research : global pedagogies and policies / edited by Joseph Zajda.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Peter W. Sheehan -- Preface / Joseph Zajda -- Globalisation, education and policy research : overview and introduction / Joseph Zajda -- Sect. 1. Main trends and issues / Edited by Joseph Zajda and Kassie Freeman -- 1. Globalisation, education and policy : changing paradigms / Joseph Zajda -- 2. Policy borrowing in education : frameworks for analysis / David Phillips -- 3. Comparative education policy and globalisation : evolution, missions and roles / Mark Bray -- 4. The education and training of knowledge workers / David Wilson -- 5. Tacit skills and occupational mobility in a global culture / Karen Evans -- 6. Development, globalisation and decentralisation : comparative research towards a theory for managing diversity / David Turner -- 7. Globalisation and the governance of national education systems / Holger Daun -- 8. Rethinking globalisation and the future role of education in Africa / MacLeans Geo-JaJa and Joseph Zajda -- 9. Neoliberalism, globalisation, and Latin American higher education : the challenge to national universities / Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos A. Torres and Andrea Brewster -- 10. Globalisation and higher education policy changes / Kingsley Banya -- 11. Globalisation and education reforms in Hong Kong : paradigm shifts / Yin Cheong Cheng -- 12. The impact of globalisation on the mission of the university / M'hammed Sabour -- 13. Globalisation, cultural diversity and multiculturalism : Australia / Jerzy Smolicz and Margaret Secombe -- 14. Globalisation and higher education in Chile and Romania : the roles of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization / Mark Ginsburg, Oscar Espinoza, Simona Popa and Mayumi Terano -- Sect. 2. Globalisation and education policy reform / Edited by Val Rust and Joseph Zajda -- 15. Globalisation and educational policy shifts / Val D. Rust and W. James Jacob -- 16. Convergence or divergences? : comparing education reforms in Hong Kong and Singapore / Michael H. Lee and S. Gopinathan -- 17. Globalisation and its effects on educational leadership, higher education and educational policy / Duncan Waite, Lejf Moos and Chulsub Lew -- 18. The new partnership for African development : implications for skills development / Leon Tikly -- 19. Globalisation and pre-service teacher education in Australia : a new dimension / Diane Cullen -- 20. PISA in Germany : a search for causes and evolving answers / Hans Lingens -- 21. Globalisations, research and policies regarding gender issues / Margaret B. Sutherland -- 22. Employment equity and higher education : policy borrowings and the politics of language / Laura Portnoi -- 23. Minorities and indigenous groups in education / Joseph Zajda -- 24. Islamic education / Holger Daun and Reza Arjmand -- 25. National initiatives in human rights education : the implementation of human rights education policy reform in schools / Yvette Lapayese -- Sect. 3. Globalisation and education policy : comparative perspective / Edited by Macleans Geo-JaJa, Joseph Zajda and Rea Zajda -- 26. The educational reform and transformation in Russia / Joseph Zajda -- 27. Globalisation and public education policies in Latin America : challenges to and contributions of teachers and higher education institutions / Robert Arnove -- 28. Educational reform : who are the radicals? / Val D. Rust -- 29. The GATS and trade in educational services : issues for Canada in the Pan-American context / Daniel Schugurensky and Adam Davidson-Harden -- 30. Education and globalisation / Dan O'Brien -- 31. Inside but below : the puzzle of education in the global order / Crain Soudien -- 32. Globalisation, education reforms and policy change in Africa : the case of Nigeria / MacLeans A. Geo-JaJa -- 33. The interaction of human development, economic development and nation-building on the industrial staircase / Garth Mangum -- 34. Language-in-education policies and practices in Africa with a special focus on Tanzania and South Africa - insights from research in progress / Birgit Brock-Utne -- 35. Reinventing English : text lists and curriculum change in Ireland and Australia / Donna Gibbs, Tom Mullins and Kerry-Ann O'Sullivan -- Sect. 4. Globalisation and education reforms / Edited by Suzanne Majhanovich and Joseph Zajda -- 36. Decentralisation of education policies in a global perspective / Alberto Arenas -- 37. Educational decentralisation : rhetoric or reality / Suzanne Mojhanovich -- 38. Education as a fault line in assessing democratisation : ignoring the globalising influences of schools / Erwin Epstein -- 39. The edge of chaos : explorations in education and conflict / Lynn Davies -- 40. Current reforms in special education : delusion or solution? / Margaret Winzer and Kas Mazurek -- 41. School and university partnerships in Australia : tentative beginnings / Laurie Brady -- 42. Addressing the challenge of principalship in Australian Catholic schools / Paul Carlin and Helga Neidhart -- 43. Education for democracy : some basic definitions, concepts, and clarifications / Laura B. Perry -- 44. The politics of rewriting history : new school history textbooks in Russia / Joseph Zajda and Rea Zajda -- 45. Change and the "lapsed reforms" senior secondary education in Italy / John Polesel -- 46. Globalisation and policy reforms : science education research / Lyn Carter -- 47. Cultural and social capital in global perspective / Lawrence J. Saha.

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