TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,David
AU  - Wiseman,Alexander W.
TI  - Education for all: global promises, national challenges 
T2  - International perspectives on education and society,
SN  - 9780080478630
AV  - LC2605 .E324 2007eb
U1  - 379.129 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Amsterdam, Boston
PB  - Elsevier JAI
KW  - Education
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - Educational assistance
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - Basic education
KW  - Educational equalization
KW  - Éducation
KW  - Coopération internationale
KW  - Éducation de base
KW  - Démocratisation de l'enseignement
KW  - bicssc
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Finance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Education for all: Paradoxes and Prospects of a Global Promise; Chapter 2. The Political Dimensions of International Cooperation in Education: Mechanisms of Global Governance to Promote Education for all; Chapter 3. The Market, The Nation and the School: EFA in Times of Globalization and Nationalism; Chapter 4. Grounds for Prioritizing Education for Girls: The Telling Case of Left-Behind Rural China; Chapter 5. Inclusive Education as a Strategy for Achieving Education for all: Perspectives from three Asian Societies
N2  - Since the World Conference on Education for All (EFA) in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990, the push for modern mass schooling has become a primary focus of national education policymakers and researchers around the world. The EFA declaration that grew out of this conference served as a culmination of a century-long movement to transform existing national educational systems into the most comprehensive mass system of schooling ever devised. Comparative education researchers have been studying both the promises and the challenges surrounding EFA for decades, but in comparative education research litera
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