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Discourses of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Education
This book examines dominant discourses affecting race, ethnicity and gender in education and societies globally. It presents cutting-edge research on the major global trends in globalization, race, ethnicity and gender education globally. Using diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to discourse analysis, the book examines major trends in race, ethnicity and gender research, with a focus on the ambivalent and problematic relationship between race, ethnicity and gender discourses, ideology and the state. It discusses and critiques key issues in race, ethnicity and gender research. Readers will gain a more holistic understanding of the nexus between race, ethnicity and gender discourses and dominant ideologies, both locally and globally. It also provides an easily accessible, practical, yet scholarly insights into local and global trends in the field of race, ethnicity and gender education. With contributions from key scholars worldwide, this book will be useful to a broad spectrum of readers, including policy-makers, academics, graduate students, education policy researchers, administrators and practitioners.
Globalisation, Values Education and Teaching Democracy
This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to values education, cultural identity and teaching democracy, set against the backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to values education and teaching democracy in schools. The book explores the ambivalent and problematic connections between the state, globalisation, values education and teaching democracy. It also explores conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches applicable to research on values education, multiculturalism and identity politics. Drawing on diverse paradigms, ran...
Public Management and Administration
The public sector plays an important role for both regulation and in the delivery of services directly or indirectly. In this context, it is important to consider transformation, change, and innovation, which are the elements on which the main determinants that influence public management and the administration of economic, social, and political systems are based. This book describes the nature of the problem, its multidimensionality, and the need for original approaches, through the contribution of scholars belonging to different disciplines. This book contains nine chapters in a single section (Public Management and Administration), which, through the different approaches to the subject by the authors, help to explain the issues of the public sector.
Globalisation and Higher Education Reforms
This volume explores the interrelationship between ideology, the state and higher education reforms, setting it in a global context. It examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy issues in a global culture, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. In doing so, the book provides a comprehensive picture of the intersecting and diverse discourses of globalisation and policy-driven reforms in higher education. Representing scholarly research on major discourses in the field of higher education reforms, the book draws upon recent studies in the areas of globalisation, equality, and the role of the state in higher...
Globalisation, Cultural Diversity and Schooling
This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation, cultural diversity and schooling. The collection in this volume advance further the discussions on the phenomenon of globalisation, and its far-reaching effects on our world, and consider cultural diversity in its broadest sense, as it manifests itself in a globalised world. Zajda has argued that globalisation represents a synthesis of technology, ideology and organisation, specifically related to border crossings of people, global finance and trade, IT convergence as well as cross-cultural communication. The reality of cultural diversity has been brought into stronger focus because of globalisation. Cultural diversity, always present ...
Quality, Mobility and Globalization in the Higher Education System
This book deals with the challenges of academic teaching in higher education with regard to quality, mobility, and globalisation. The articles reflect a unique interdisciplinary effort at collaboration, generated by colleagues and partners who joined together to form a community that aimed to chart the course of academic teaching. The book is divided into five parts: Part One - Academic teaching and learning; Part Two - Academic teaching and learning in the humanities; Part Three - Teaching and learning in engineering and architecture; Part Four - New approaches and technologies in physics instruction: Inquiry-based education in a post-industrial society; Part Five - Teaching and learning in the health sciences.
IBSS: Sociology: 2009 Vol. 59
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Post-Holocaust Studies in a Modern Context
"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area of Post-Holocaust studies. It forms a basic building-brick in the present state of the art, advocating the construction of the newly-born multi-disciplinary discipline of Post-Holocaust studies. It explores this subject from the areas of history, psychology, education, communication, art, theology, and ethics"--
