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Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reformreviewed by Ron Byrnes - 2005 Title: Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform Author(s): Iris C. Rotberg (Editor) Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Lanham ISBN: 1578861462, Pages: 431, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Too often it seems, in edited books, the sum is not greater than
the individual parts. Frequently, introductions are cursory, and
more importantly, at the end, editors fail to help readers connect
the dots of their individual authors’ varied contributions.
And sometimes, when the quality of individual chapters is uneven
and textual errors prove distracting, readers are left wondering
how closely an editor read the individual contributions. In
Balancing Change and Tradition in Global Education Reform,
Iris Rotberg avoids all these pitfalls. Rotberg’s preface
nicely frames the sixteen chapters that follow, the chapters are
similarly lucid, accessible, and insightful, and the concluding
chapter is a thoughtful synthesis of the themes that weave
throughout the book. In short, Rotberg gets the editing business
right; as a result, education policy makers, scholars, and
practitioners interested in comparative education reform will find
the book’s sum is greater than the individual
parts.
Rotberg’s charge to her contributors from sixteen
different countries was to educate readers about... (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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- Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies
- Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America
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- Doubting Schoolwork: Exploring an Emerging Concept
- Montessori and the Mainstream: A Century of Reform on the Margins
- Multicultural Education: An International Guide to Research, Policies, and Programs
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- Deep Culture: The Hidden Challenges of Global Living
- International Handbook of Educational Reform
- Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age
- Global Knowledge Cultures
- Education for Disarmament: A Topical Necessity
- How to Change 5000 Schools: A Practical and Positive Approach for Leading Change at Every Level
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- Cultural Narcissism and Education Reform
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- Education and International Misunderstanding
- The Paradox of Education Reform
- Global Education Policy and International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Policies
- Tested International Recipes
- Reimagining Education Reform and Innovation
- International Education in Global Times: Engaging the Pedagogic
- “This is Against American Ideals”: Rhode Island Teachers Respond to PARCC
- The OECD as Pivot of the Emerging Global Educational Accountability Regime: How Accountable are the Accountants?
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- Ron Byrnes
School of Education at Pacific Lutheran University E-mail Author RONALD S. BYRNES is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Ron has lived and taught in Ethiopia and China. His research interests include international education, cultural globalization, and education reform. Ron’s most recent publications are “Exploring Cultural Conflicts: Journey’s for Peace,” a curriculum for high school teachers, and a co-authored article, “Teaching About Pluralism: Our Missteps and Nextsteps” in Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly. Currently, Ron is working on an essay titled “Living, Working, and Studying Abroad: Towards an Other-regarding Travel Orientation.”
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