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  • Education in a Globalized World

    The Connectivity of Economic Power, Technology, and Knowledge

    by Nelly P. Stromquist ...
    The seemingly amorphous phenomenon we call 'globalization' involves concrete realities that make it a major source of social change in our contemporary world. Bringing globalization alive for students, this book uses examples and perspectives from economics, technology, and mass media to show how globalization is producing unprecedented impacts on education and culture. Education at all levels ... Read more

    $50.79 CAD

  • Feminist Organizations and Social Transformation in Latin America

    by Nelly P. Stromquist ...
    Away from the public eye, but from within the structures of stable and efficient organizations, women's groups have established nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to pursue feminist agendas. Feminist Organizations and Social Transformation in Latin America constitutes one of the first detailed analyses of the political and educational work of these organizations. Focusing on NGOs in the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Globalization and Education

    Integration and Contestation across Cultures

    by Nelly P. Stromquist, Nelly P. Stromquist, Karen Monkman, Karen Monkman, Jill Blackmore, Rosa Nidia Buenfil, Martin Carnoy, Carol Corneilse, Jan Currie, Noel Gough, Anne Hickling-Hudson0, Catherine A. Odora Hoppers1, Phillip W. Jones2, Peter Kelly3, Jane Kenway4, Molly N. N. Lee5, Lynne Parmenter6, Rosalind Latiner Raby7, Val D. Rust8, Crain Soudien9, George Subotzky0, Shirley Walters1, William M. Rideout Jr.2 ...
    The effects of globalization have long been dealt with in terms of economic and technological consequences, but what about the influence on education? Though still not a precise concept, what we understand as OglobalizationO is bringing forth numerous and profound changes in the economic, cultural, and political life of nations. With increased opportunities for interaction and learning, education ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • Globalization and Education

    Integration and Contestation across Cultures

    Edited by Nelly P. Stromquist, Karen Monkman ...
    We offer in this book a collection of chapters that reflect a broad range of issues linking globalization to education in an accessible yet theoretically grounded and detailed form. The authors analyze phenomena on the global plane, in local spaces, and in the connections between the global and the local. New developments such as the growing impact of technology on education, the emergence of new ... Read more

    $94.69 CAD

  • Women Teachers in Africa

    Challenges and possibilities

    Edited by Jing Lin, Nelly Stromquist, Steven Klees ...
    Through qualitative research methods, this book engages in a holistic understanding of cultural, economic, and institutional forces that interact to produce the underrepresentation of women as school teachers in four sub-Saharan African countries.Comparative case studies at the national level, using a common research design, show that teaching, despite being an attractive civil service job, offers ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Women in the Third World

    An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues

    Edited by Nelly P. Stromquist ...
    Ideal for researching the status and activities of Third****World womenFor quick, reliable coverage of women's issues in developing countries, here is a concise reference work written by a team of more than 80 international experts. The Encyclopedia comprises 68 essays that cover the entire Third World, from Africa to Asia, from the Near East to South and Central America, from the South Pacific to ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Politics of Educational Innovations in Developing Countries

    An Analysis of Knowledge and Power

    Edited by Nelly P. Stromquist, Michael L. Basile ...
    Series series Reference Books In International Education
    In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more modest in practice. This book examines innovations in several developing countries, presenting case studies of technological, curricular, and ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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    Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

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    Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • Pursuing Horizontal Management

    The Politics of Public Sector Coordination

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies. In this long-awaited book, Guy Peters brings his expertise and extensive experience to bear on the problem of ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Accountability through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action

    by Odugbemi,Sina; Lee,Taeku ...
    Accountability has become a buzzword in international development. Development actors appear to delight in announcing their intention to ?promote accountability??but it is often unclear what accountability is and how it can be promoted. This book addresses some questions that are crucial to understanding accountability and for understanding why accountability is important to improve the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Wellbeing, Justice and Development Ethics

    by Severine Deneulin ...
    Series series The Routledge Human Development and Capability Debates
    The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either Marxism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability approach, first articulated by Amartya Sen in the early 1980s. Written for an international audience, but rooted ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Reorganizing Popular Politics

    Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America

    Edited by Ruth Berins Collier, Samuel Handlin ...
    A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations replaced party-affiliated labor unions as the predominant organizations to which the lower classes ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD