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ERIC Number: EJ613602
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
Comparative Education for the 21st Century: Retrospect and Prospect.
Broadfoot, Patricia
Comparative Education, v36 n3 p357-71 Aug 2000
Western education systems have become globally embedded, and comparative education, by focusing on the delivery model of education, reinforces the status quo. A neo-comparative education would focus on learning and its relationship with culture as a means of understanding how individuals can be encouraged to engage with the many emerging forms of learning opportunities. (Contains 41 references.) (Author/TD)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Context, Educational Change, Futures (of Society), Informal Education, Lifelong Learning, Models, Quality of Life
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Eurocentrism; Globalization
Note: Special Number 23: "Comparative Education for the Twenty-First Century."