Global education : a study of school change /
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1992.
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| Series: | SUNY series, theory, research, and practice in social education
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Setting the stage
- The importance of a global perspective
- Understanding the change process
- Strategy and implementation: the CHI story
- Chapter 2: Research as reflection on practice
- Seeking new knowledge
- The search for grounded theory
- Supplementary date
- Chapter 3: Global education as a social movement
- Conditions which produce the movement
- Membership in the movement
- Sociopolitical context of the movement
- Structural properties of the movement
- Institutional responses
- Chapter 4: Meaning and activity
- Defining global education
- Activity reveals and creates meaning
- Engagement and resistance
- Chapter 5: Competing demands and the use of time in schools
- Barriers to participation
- Demands come from every direction
- The district ethos
- Teachers' defense mechanisms
- Contemplating the larger picture
- Chapter 6: The uniqueness of the single school
- Perceptions of involvement: a typology
- The culture of the school: three case studies
- Chapter 7: The pivotal role of the principal
- Principal leadership today: key theories
- Goal orientation of principals
- District ethos and the principalship
- Two case studies
- Chapter 8: The interventionists
- Three interconnected functions
- What it takes to do the job
- Intervention as an evolutionary process
- The inner life of the interventionist
- Chapter 9: What does it take to globalize the curriculum of a school?
- What we believe we know
- What we hypothesize: recommendations for further exploration.