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Culture and Pedagogy: International Comparisons in Primary Education
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Culture and Pedagogy compares primary and secondary elementary schooling in England, France, India, Russia and the United States. It reveals how teaching, learning and pedagogic discouse are shaped not just by the decisions of the teacher but also by school values and organisation, by local pressures, national policy and the balance of political control, by the tensions and ambiruities of the democratic ideal, and by culture and history. The entire study is placed i… More >>
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Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban Education
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This book examines the national trend toward mayoral control of big-city school districts through comparative case studies of Chicago and Cleveland – two school districts that adopted mayoral control during the 1990s. Chambers takes up the question of whether granting control to mayors in major cities will indeed fix public school systems. She finds that although both cities have experienced noteworthy improvements in student performance since mayoral control, the i… More >>
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