Overview
This edited volume reviews the conflict between economic prescriptions for improved education in the developing world and local cultures. Among the issues reviewed are: conceptions of culture and economics in development and education literature, economic considerations of school systems to promote cultural goals, the differentiation of schools from other sites of cultural reproduction, learning experiences of various cultural groups, and the cross-cultural work of development agencies.
- | Author: Angela W. Little, Fiona E. Leach
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Feb 29, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 424 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Education
- | ISBN-10: 1138968455
- | ISBN-13: 9781138968455
