Research Catalog

Title

Global panaceas, local realities : international agencies and the future of education / Jason Beech.

Author

Beech, Jason

Publication

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.

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Details

Description

279 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Komparatistische Bibliothek, 0934-0858 ; Bd. 22 = Compartive studies series ; v. 22

Uniform Title

Comparative studies series ; Bd. 22.

Subject

• Education and state > International cooperation
• Educational change > International cooperation
• International agencies
• Comparative education
• Critical pedagogy
• Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > Coopération internationale
• Enseignement > Réforme > Coopération internationale
• Organisations internationales
• Éducation comparée
• Pédagogie critique
• international organizations
• Internationale Organisation
• Lehrerbildung
• Bildungsreform
• Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft
• Argentinien
• Brasilien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: International agencies and educational reforms in Latin America -- Chapter structure -- Global educational discourse: A theoretical approach to the work of international agencies in education -- The theme of educational transfer in comparative education -- A theoretical approach to global educational discourse -- Conclusion -- Global educational discourse: UNESCO, the World Bank, OECD and their universal model for teacher education -- UNESCO, the World Bank and OECD: Different perspectives in education? -- UNESCO, the World Bank and OECD: A universal model of education? -- UNESCO, the World Bank and OECD: A universal model for teacher education? -- Conclusion -- Contexts of reception: A view over time of teacher education in Argentina and Brazil -- Normalismo: The origins of teacher education systems in Argentina and Brazil -- Constructing a "modern nation:"The origins of teacher education in Argentina -- The Brazilian Empire and the first years of the Republic -- Escolanovismo: The New Education Movement in Argentina and Brazil (1930 -- 1960) -- Escola Nova and the education of the masses as a national issue in Brazil -- Peronism and anti-positivistic influence in teacher education in Argentina -- Desarrollismo: Developmental and technocratic views in Argentina and Brazil -- Developmental and technocratic views in Argentina -- Developmental and technocratic views in Brazil -- Conclusion -- Teachers of the future: Adapting Argentine and Brazilian teacher education to the "information age" -- "Stabilization and Reforms:" Adapting Brazilian education to the information age -- Adapting Argentine education to the information age -- The Argentine and Brazilian teacher of the future -- Pedagogic identity -- Pedagogic knowledge -- Curricular control -- Conclusion -- Localizing global educational discourse in practice: The perspective of teacher educators in Argentina and in Brazil -- Revisiting the argument: policy as discourse, policy as text, and recontextualization -- Revisiting recontextualization -- The process of data collection -- Re-interpreting global educational discourse in practice in Brazil -- Re-interpreting global educational discourse in practice in Argentina -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Global educational discourse in Argentina and Brazil -- Producing educational reforms -- From official rhetoric to practice -- Adapting to the "forever rapidly changing world" -- The circulation of discourse in the educational field -- International agencies and educational space -- Revisiting "global educational discourse".

ISBN

• 9783631594773
• 3631594771

LCCN

2010513142

OCLC

• ocn713189007
• 713189007
• SCSB-1612112

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library