Local Meanings, Global Schooling: Anthropology and World Culture Theory

by Laurie L. Marbas and Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt

Book Overview

Is there one global culture of schooling, or many national and local cultures? Do educational reforms take school systems on diverging or parallel paths? These case studies from five continents use ethnography and history to challenge the sweeping claims of sociology's world culture theory (neo-institutionalism). They demonstrate how national ministries of education and local schools re-invent every reform. Yet the cases also show that teachers and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403961638
• ISBN13: 9781403961631
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"