Tradition, modernity, and post-modernity in comparative education / edited by Vandra Masemann and Anthony Welch. - 1 volume : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Reprinted from International review of education, v. 43, nos. 5-6, 1997.". Selected papers presented at the Ninth World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, held at the University of Sydney, Australia, Jul1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editorial Introduction -- Challenges to Comparative Education: Between Retrospect and Expectation -- Indigenous Australian Education and Globalisation -- Girls' Access to Education in a Developing Country -- Level Playing Field? Feminist Observations on Global/Local Articulations of the Re-gendering and Restructuring of Educational Work -- Interculturality and Intercultural Education: A Challenge for Democracy -- Implementing Basic Education: An African Experience -- Comparative Methodology and Postmodern Relativism -- Exporting the European Idea of a National Language: Some Educational Implications of the Use of English and Indigenous Languages in the Philippines -- Towards a People-Centred Education: Possibilities and Struggles in the Philippines -- Privatization or Marketization: Educational Development in Post-Mao China -- Teacher's In-Service Education: A Proposal for Turning Teachers into Teacher-Researchers -- Development Education Revisited: The New Zealand Experience -- Problems of Illiteracy in a Literate Developing Society -- Le redoublement a l'ecole: une maladie universelle? -- Notes on Contributors.

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Comparative education--Congresses
Postmodernism and education--Congresses
Education--Social aspects--Congresses
Educational change--Congresses

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