Comparative and Global Pedagogies: Equity, Access and Democracy in Education

Foreword Preface-Joseph Zajda Acknowledgements Contributors SECTION 1: MAIN TRENDS AND ISSUES IN EQUITY, ACCESS AND DEMOCRACY 1. Globalization, Comparative Education and Policy Research: Equity and Access Issues Joseph Zajda 2. Interruptive Democracy in Education Lynn Davies University of Birmingham 3. The role of education and training in the empowerment and inclusion of migrants and refugees Janet Hannah Centre for Comparative Education Research School of Education University of Nottingham 4. Equity and Democratic Education in Ghana: Towards a Pedagogy of Difference George J. Sefa Dei and Riyad Shahjahan, OISE, University of Toronto 5. Access Denied: A story of resistance and educational implications of new policies in Hong Kong Teresa van Deven, University of Western Ontario SECTION II: RACE, GENDER, AND EQUITY 6. Race, ethnicity and gender in Swedish education: policy discourses and dangers Gaby Weiner, Ume? University 7. The gender agenda: the limits and possibilities of global and national citizenship education Harriet Marshal and Madeleine Arnot University of Cambridge 8. Equity and Access Issues in Canadian Education Suzanne Majhanovich, University of Western Ontario 9. Globalising the universal: equity, policy and planning Christopher Williams Centre for international education and research (CIER), University of Birmingham (U.K.) 10. Racial identity formation, anti-Racist Education and its effect on access to education for minorities Goli Rezai-Rashti, University of Western Ontario & Patrick Solomon, York University 11. Education for equitable outcomes or educational inequality: a critical analysis of Unesco's education for all and the United States' No child left behind programs Karen Biraimah, University of CentralFlorida 12. Organizational Learning in International Development Agencies: The Case of Girls' Education Nelly P. Stromquist, University of Southern California Index of Names Index of Subjects

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402083483
• ISBN13: 9781402083488
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"