Research Catalog

Title

Disparate ladders : why school and university policies differ in Germany, Japan, and Switzerland / Arnold J. Heidenheimer.

Author

Heidenheimer, Arnold J.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©1997.

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Description

xix, 382 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This study breaks new ground in examining how political factors helped lead three countries with highly regarded education systems to evolve quite different structures and processes in their secondary and higher education sectors. Their educational "ladders" are disparate because the techniques and timing for selecting students for further educational opportunities vary both among the three nations, and within the German and Swiss federal systems. The comparative analysis seeks to place the Japanese trajectory with reference to European developments, and to account for some of its unique aspects. Building on an extensive record of publication on comparative education policies and welfare state development, Heidenheimer places special emphasis on exploring the network of relationships between the various levels of the educational system and tiers of government.

Subject

• Education and state > Cross-cultural studies
• Higher education and state > Cross-cultural studies
• Education, Secondary > Cross-cultural studies
• Education, Higher > Cross-cultural studies
• 81.70 educational systems, educational institutions: general
• Education and state
• Education, Higher
• Education, Secondary
• Higher education and state
• Bildungspolitik
• Höheres Bildungswesen
• Onderwijsbeleid
• Hoger onderwijs
• Voortgezet onderwijs
• Deutschland
• Japan
• Schweiz

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-370) and indexes.

Contents

pt. I. Historical Development and Emergent Distinctions. 1. Political Transformations, Educational Traditions, and the Changing Role of Governments. 2. Three Paths to Modern Education: Swiss Contrasts to Japan and Germany, 1850-1950 -- pt. II. How and Why Secondary Schooling Differs. 3. Comparing Structures and Selection Reforms Across Secondary School Sectors and Countries. 4. Post-1970 Reform Struggles and the Restructuring of Meritocratic Selection Systems. 5. Vocational and Dual System Credentials in the Context of Changing Labor Markets -- pt. III. Appraisals amid Contending Paradigms. 6. Bureaucratic and Judicial Control and Monitoring of Schools and Teachers. 7. Locality and Gender Inequalities in Access to Education: National and Subnational Contrasts. 8. Assessments of Student Attainment through National Exams and International Testing -- pt. IV. Channeling Expansion in Higher Education. 9. Universities in the Higher Education Matrix: How Growth Patterns Differed.

ISBN

• 1560002778
• 9781560002772

LCCN

96041533

OCLC

• ocm35298661
• 35298661
• SCSB-8905804

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library