| Struggles Over Difference: Curriculum, Texts, and Pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific Contributor(s): Nozaki, Yoshiko (Editor), Openshaw, Roger (Editor), Luke, Allan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791463982 ISBN-13: 9780791463987 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: "Struggles over Difference addresses education, schools, textbooks, and pedagogies in various countries of the Asia-Pacific, offering critical curriculum studies and policy analyses of national and regional educational systems. These systems face challenges linked to new economic formations, cultural globalization, and emergent regional and international geopolitical instabilities and conflicts. Contributors offer insights on how official knowledge, text, discourse and discipline should be shaped; who should shape it; through which institutional agencies it should be administered: and social and cultural practices through which this should occur. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Comparative - Education | Curricula - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 370.95 |
| LCCN: 2004048222 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.06" W x 9.08" (0.79 lbs) 258 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the 2006 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Award Struggles over Difference addresses education, schools, textbooks, and pedagogies in various countries of the Asia-Pacific, offering critical curriculum studies and policy analyses of national and regional educational systems. These systems face challenges linked to new economic formations, cultural globalization, and emergent regional and international geopolitical instabilities and conflicts. Contributors offer insights on how official knowledge, text, discourse, and discipline should be shaped; who should shape it; through which institutional agencies it should be administered; and social and cultural practices through which this should occur. The book disrupts popular myths about education in this part of the world, including base suppositions about the other: that Asian pedagogy is exclusively rote learning, that educational systems and governments here are faced with classical developing country issues, and that institutional and state formation in the region can be assessed on a North/West or left/right continuum. The essays not only map and reframe issues of difference for those who work in education in the Asia-Pacific, but also illuminate critical issues of curriculum and policy for teachers, students, teacher educators, and researchers worldwide. |
