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The Cross-Cultural Transfer of Educational Concepts and Practicesreviewed by Alexis Martin - July 27, 2006 Title: The Cross-Cultural Transfer of Educational Concepts and Practices Author(s): Masahiro Tanaka Publisher: Symposium Books, Oxford ISBN: 1873927401, Pages: 152, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com In The Cross-Cultural Transfer of Educational Concepts and Practices, Masahiro Tanaka proposes a useful theoretical framework for thinking about the ways educational concepts and practices change as they are transferred and implemented from one culture to another. The book, which is aimed at scholars of international education, is divided into six chapters. After introducing his arguments in the first chapter, Tanaka expands on them in Chapters 2 through 5 by demonstrating their occurrence in real-life contexts. Chapter 6 is a helpful conclusion that summarizes the interconnectedness of each of the books chapters.
Tanaka s introductory chapter begins with a brief literature review highlighting several relevant comparative educationalists, and moves on to a discussion of his own proposed theoretical framework. He outlines Jurgen Schriewers argumentthat as educational models are offered transculturally, they are adapted and transformed in a process called indigenizationand builds on this theory by proposing two types of indigenization.... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Alexis Martin
University of California, Berkeley E-mail Author ALEXIS MARTIN is a doctoral student in Social and Cultural Studies in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she is a Graduate Student Instructor in Urban Education at UC Berkeley and a Lecturer with the Hutchins School for Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University. Her research interests include out-of-school literacies, popular culture pedagogy, student perceptions of small interconnected schools, and the translation of critical educational theory into practice.
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