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Joseph Zajda, Editor; Anatoli Rapoport, Editor – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2024
This book analyses dominant discourses of globalisation, and citizenship in schools. Diverse worldviews and ideologies construct different meanings for globalization, citizenship, and education, resulting in conceptual debates, tensions, competing discourses, and practical challenges for scholars and educators, navigating complex and contested…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Social Studies, Colonialism
Postiglione, Gerard A., Ed.; Leung, Julian Y. M., Ed. – 1992
This book takes the position that education in Hong Kong under British rule has been characterized by inequalities, privileges, patronage, discrimination, archaic hierarchies, inadequate planning, and emphasis on quantity over quality. With this colonial heritage and burden, Hong Kong prepares to join China in 1997. Although education in Hong Kong…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Colonialism, Cultural Background, Educational Change
Docking, Jim, Ed. – 2000
This book, which is designed primarily for undergraduate and graduate students of education, contains 12 papers devoted the New Labour's policies for schools in the United Kingdom. "Introduction" (Jim Docking) presents an overview of the book's contents and lists questions to help evaluate the effectiveness of New Labour's educational…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Comparative Analysis