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Mattei, Paola, Ed.; Dumay, Xavier, Ed.; Mangez, Eric, Ed.; Behrend, Jacqueline, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2023
Globalization has become one of the most recurrent concepts in social and political sciences. More often than not, however, the concept is handled without much of a properly articulated theory capable of explaining its historical origin and expansion. For education researchers attempting to elucidate how global changes and processes affect their…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Guides, Social Theories, Social Change
James, Beverly – 1983
In examining the Frankfurt School's critical theory of society in an effort to discover the theoretical basis for the school's inability to merge theory with praxis, this paper points out that the school's analysis of culture in the 1930s and 1940s presents a radical, penetrating critique of the role of mass communication in advanced…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Industrialization, Mass Media, Revolution
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Sunker, Heinz – Policy Futures in Education, 2006
National Socialism, the German type of fascism, is analysed in this article with respect to the question of its ideological foundations, the ideology of the "Volk" community, and its consequences for a relevant type of social practice, "Volk" welfare. Under National Socialism the form of state social work intervention was…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Control, Ideology, Social Work
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Fritsch, Helmut – Distance Education, 1995
The reunification process in Germany and its effect on distance education policies and practices in the East provide an occasion to test the relevance of the Fordist framework. Discussion includes characteristics of a neo- or post-Fordist distance education system, the failure of Fordism as a theory of industrialized society, and the Fordism…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Theories
Bron, Agnieszka, Ed.; Schemmann, Michael, Ed. – 2001
This second volume of the Bochum Studies in International Adult Education presents a variety of different perspectives on the topics of citizenship and civil society. Its goal is to give an overview of the European discourse on citizenship and civil society and on the discourse in some selected countries. Part I is comprised of the first of 14…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Citizenship