Struggles over Difference
Curriculum, Texts, and Pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific
By Allan Luke, Roger Openshaw, Yoshiko Nozaki | Publisher: State University of New York Press
About the book
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.
Editions of Struggles over Difference
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780791463970
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780791463987
- PDF
- ISBN 9780791483541
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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.
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What is Struggles over Difference about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Struggles over Difference?
Society and Social Sciences > Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy > Educational systems and structures
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You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780791463970
How long is Struggles over Difference and how many pages does it have?
Struggles over Difference has 258 page(s)
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Struggles over Difference?
Allan Luke, Roger Openshaw, Yoshiko Nozaki
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Struggles over Difference is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780791463970) and paperback(ISBN 9780791463987) and pdf(ISBN 9780791483541)
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