Critical Approaches to Comparative Education: Vertical Case Studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas(International and Development Education)

This book unites a dynamic group of scholars who examine linkages among local, national, and international levels of educational policy and practice. Utilizing multi-sited, ethnographic approaches, the essays explore vertical interactions across diverse levels of policy and practice while prompting horizontal comparisons across twelve sites in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. The vertical case studies focus on a range of topics, including participatory development, the politics of culture and language, neoliberal educational reforms, and education in post-conflict settings. Editors Vavrus and Bartlett contribute to comparative theory and practice by demonstrating the advantages of thinking vertically.

Table of Contents:
PART I: APPROPRIATING EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND PROGRAMS Localizing No Child Left Behind: Supplemental Educational Services (SES) in New York City The Décalage and Bricolage of Higher Education Policymaking in an Inter/national System: The Unintended Consequences of Participation in the 1992 Senegalese CNES Reform AIDS and Edutainment:  Inter/National Health Education in Tanzanian Secondary Schools PART II: EXPLORING PARTICIPATION IN INTER/NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE Questioning Participation: Exploring Discourses and Practices of Community Participation in Education Reform in Tanzania Living Participation: Considering the Promise and Politics of Participatory Educational Reforms in Brazil Transformative Teaching in Restrictive Times: Engaging Teacher Participation in Small School Reform during an Era of Standardization PART III: EXAMINING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DIVERSITY 'Migration Nation': Intercultural Education and Anti-Racism as Symbolic Violence in Celtic Tiger Ireland 'Don't You Want Your Child to Be Better than You?': Enacting Ideologies and Contesting Intercultural Policy in Peru Citizenship and Belonging in an Age of Insecurity: Pakistani Immigrant Youth in New York City PART IV: MANAGING CONFLICT THROUGH INTER/NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION The Relief-Development Transition:  Sustainability and Educational Support in Post-Conflict Settings Perpetuated Suffering: Social Injustice in Liberian Teachers' Lives Positioning Arabic in Schools: Language Policy, National Identity, and Development in Contemporary Lebanon

About the Author :
Jill P. Koyama, University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA Rosemary Max, Loyola University Chicago, USA Tonya Muro, Global Nomads Group, USA Aleesha Taylor, Open Society Institute, USA Moira Wilkinson, UNICEF Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College, USA Audrey Bryan, University College Dublin, Ireland Laura Alicia Valdiviezo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, University of Pennsylvania, USA Mary Mendenhall, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA Janet Shriberg, University of Denver, USA Zeena Zakharia, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

Review :
"This book heralds a new era in the study of comparative education. The authors weave a rich tapestry using ethnographic and other data to illustrate in vivid detail the working out of educational policy and practice in varied locations around the world. It sets the standard for the integration of vertical and horizontal approaches." - Vandra L. Masemann is Adjunct Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Comparative, International, and Development Education Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada "Vavrus and Bartlett truly do offer Critical Approaches to Comparative Education and the book is a must-read for the field.Most especially, the development of vertical cases transforms classroom and other micro studies by an integration of national and global contexts and should be of great interest to comparative and international educators as well as to all qualitative researchers concerned with case studies and ethnographies." - Steven J. Klees, Former President, Comparative and International Education Society, and Harold R.W. Benjamin Professor of International and Comparative Education, University of Maryland