"The era that began with the election of the Thatcher and Reagan governments has been dominated by contemporary forms of neoliberalism-based market fundamentalism, globalization as world economic integration and the ideology of free trade, and an attack on big government and soc…
by Williams, Jenny, Troyna, Barry
fromRoutledge library editions. Education
This crisply written book offers a comparative look at higher education in China and the United States. This is surprisingly instructive because the size of the two systems is roughly comparable (at around thirty million students), and the two countries have the largest economie…
"Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles provides a contemporary survey of education development and key educational issues in the Caribbean with the contribution of academics working closely in the field. It offers a review of contemporary education pol…
To combat the "vampires" of our society and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached, Ratigan provides readers with a set of values that together form the answer for how each of us can not only understand what h…
Eine Katastrophe rollt auf uns zu: die Kompetenzkatastrophe Unsere Welt verändert sich rasend und mit ihr die Anforderungen an uns. Wir benötigen heute völlig neue Fähigkeiten, um uns in der digitalen Welt zurechtzufinden und trotzdem menschengerecht zu handeln. Diesen Anforderu…
America's great research universities are the envy of the world--and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities have forgotten that the fun…
"Love's Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with textual analyses of popular childrearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, the author describes the munda…
Natalia Petrzela explores how in the late 1960s and 1970s, a growing number of Americans fused conventional values about family and personal morality with an Anglo jingoism, specifically marrying concerns about sexuality and language and blurring the distinction between public a…
"From Cultural Appreciation Days to Gay-Straight Alliances to cafeteria menus featuring "ethnic options," twenty-first century American public schools bear the unmistakable mark of the diversity that has come to define the nation in the last fifty years. At the same time, it is …
