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International perspectives on the goals of universal basic and secondary education / edited by Joel E. Cohen and Martin B. Malin.

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Universal schooling has been adopted as a goal by international organizations, national governments, and non-profit organizations, yet little sustained international attention has been devoted to the purposes or goals of universal education. This book offers diverse views from experts around the wor...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Other Authors: Cohen, Joel E., Malin, Martin B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge, MA : Routledge ; AAA & S, 2009.
Series:Routledge research in education ; 22.
Subjects:
Basic education.
Education, Secondary.
Education > Aims and objectives.
High school teaching.
Junior high school teaching.
Table of Contents:
  • Goals of universal basic and secondary education / Joel E. Cohen
  • Education for all, but for what? / Kai-ming Cheng
  • Goals of universal primary and secondary education in the 21st century : reviving the spirit of Socrates / Kishore Mahbubani
  • What will be the near-future goals of education? / William K. Cummings
  • Quality education : the work of optimists / Beryl Levinger
  • Achieving education of high quality in Islamiyya schools of Nigeria / Mallam Bala Ahmed
  • Nurturing learning ability : the goals of universal primary and secondary education / Camer Vellani
  • Quality, the heart of equity / Vimala Ramachandran
  • The dia program : the development of intelligence through art / Claudia Madrazo
  • Educational goals : art, science, love, and the importance of binocular vision / Joel E. Cohen
  • What does "universal" education mean? / James Carroll
  • Teaching tolerance and open-minded approaches to understanding sacred texts / Mohamed Charfi and Hamadi Redissi
  • Educating all the people for democratic governance : a U.S. perspective / Deborah Meier
  • Educating for global competency / Fernando Reimers
  • Education and the globalization paradigm / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
  • Evaluating basic and secondary education / Ana Carolina Letichevsky
  • For what should schools be held accountable? / Richard Rothstein and Rebecca Jacobsen
  • Quality education : a UNESCO perspective / Mary Joy Pigozzi
  • Quality education : what is it and who decides? Briefing paper for a policy maker / George M. Ingram
  • The challenge of defining a quality universal education : mapping a common core / Laura Hersh Salganik and Stephen J. Provasnik.

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