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Examines the educational experiences of minority groups in different international contexts, from the USA, Finland, Rwanda, India, South Africa, Hungary, China and the UK. This title contains a summary of the key points and issues within each chapter to enable easy navigation, key contemporary questions to encourage active engagement.

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Examines the relationship natural disasters have with education in different international contexts, from the USA, Australia, India, China, the UK and Japan.

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The single most important educational theory in schools and universities today is not derived from Dewey, Piaget, R. This work describes public choice theory in its component parts and as a coherent and potent contemporary factor influencing education today.

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What is the relationship between education and reconciliation initiatives Who encourages and enacts it and who discourages and detracts from it This book explores the role education has played in fostering or hindering reconciliation between groups divided by violent and/or social conflict.

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What is the relationship between education and reconciliation initiatives Who encourages and enacts it and who discourages and detracts from it This book explores the role education has played in fostering or hindering reconciliation between groups divided by violent and/or social conflict.

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Arnove presents a glimpse of the Nicaraguan educational system during the first five years of the Sandinista revolution, July 1979-84. The . . . author provides an excellent bibliography concerning Latin American comparative education, and the book would be of educational value to both undergraduate and graduate students. Choice

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Investigates the potential for creating a transnational value system in education, focusing on some key human rights issues at home and overseas. This book focuses on how education can bring about social change, connecting with theory at the level of cultural impact and policy implications.

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A timely consideration with an increased awareness of global issues and the role education can play in helping to resolve these concerns.

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This examination of the interrelationship of educational and social developments in Germany from 1810 to 1997, concentrates on the post-war German scene, analyzing the post-unification system. It argues that the German educational system has become inadequate and seems to have reached an impasse.

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This examination of the interrelationship of educational and social developments in Germany from 1810 to 1997, concentrates on the post-war German scene, analyzing the post-unification system. It argues that the German educational system has become inadequate and seems to have reached an impasse.

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Is the work ethic still viable as society evolves This book engages with widespread current anxieties about the future of work and its place in a fulfilled human life. It is a philosophical treatment of the nature of work and reconsiders the aims and procedures of education.

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The translation of Lyotard's work into English in 1984 marked an important stage in the globalization of the modernity/postmodernity debate involving the central thinkers of the late 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and others.

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The translation of Lyotard's work into English in 1984 marked an important stage in the globalization of the modernity/postmodernity debate involving the central thinkers of the late 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jrgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and others.

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A concise comparative introduction to education in each major geographical region of the world and the major issues in international education today.

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A concise comparative introduction to education in each major geographical region of the world and the major issues in international education today.

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A discussion about the functions of education, drawing on a range of educational situations. It challenges the various functions of education as widely and conventionally perceived, and promotes the notion of education as a humanitarian response as the prime function.

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Examine the educational situations of a range of human groups that are marginalized or excluded from mainstream provision and also considers the idea that 'humane' means 'appropriate'. This book offers an engaging discussion about the functions of education, drawing on a range of educational situations.

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