Education, Cultures, and Economics

Dilemmas for Development
Herausgeber: Little, Angela W; Leach, Fiona E

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote cultural goals, the differentiation of schools from other sites of cultural reproduction, learning experiences of various cultural groups, and the cross-cultural work of development agencies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781138968455
• ISBN-10: 1138968455
• Artikelnr.: 44789970

Autorenporträt

Fiona E. Leach

Inhaltsangabe

Part I PART I INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Development and Education,
AngelaLittle; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 Economics and Culture, R. L.Stirrat;
Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Meanings of Culture in Development, Brian V.Street;
Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 Different Eyes, KonaiHelu-Thaman; Part II PART II THE
ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL GOALS OF DEVELOPMENT: WHOSE GOALS MATTER?; Chapter 5
CHAPTER 5 Learning versus Development, MunirFasheh; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6
Alternative Development and Education, SheilaAikman; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7
Local Accountability to Rural Communities, RobertSerpell; Part III PART III
THE COSTS OF CULTURE AND THE CULTURE OF COSTS; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 Language
Policy in Ethiopian Education, CHRISTINEMCNAB, PETERSTOYE; Chapter 9
CHAPTER 9 The Costs of Culture, KeithLewin; Chapter 10 Community Financing
of Education, MarkBray; Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11 Educational Financing
Strategies in Developing Countries, MercyTembon; Chapter 12 CHAPTER 12
Educating Girls in Pakistan, IffatFarah, KazimBacchus; Part IV PART IV
CULTURES OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING; Chapter 13 CHAPTER 13 Alternative
Cultures of Knowledge in Higher Education in the Australia-Pacific Region,
J.I.TEASDALE, G.R.TEASDALE; Chapter 14 CHAPTER 14 Cultural Ambiguity and
the Primary School Teacher, MIKAELPALME; Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Economic
Imperatives and Cultural Discontinuities in Science Education, LOWE JOHN;
Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Cultural Perceptions of the Role of Mathematics and
Mathematics Education in Economic Development, Nyamu Florence Kiragu;
Chapter 17 CHAPTER 17 Women and Mathematics, MaryHarris; Chapter 18 Chapter
18 Education, Social Identity, and Occupational Aspirations in Brazil,
TerezinhaNunes, AntonioRoazzi; Part V PART V DILEMMAS FOR EDUCATIONAL AID;
Chapter 19 CHAPTER 19 Whose Rules Apply?, MICHAELDELENS; Chapter 20 CHAPTER
20 Dilemmas Between Economics and Culture in Educational Aid, FIONALEACH;
Index;