http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/20796/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/22345/ 2010-11-01T00:00:00Z This compact book, which consists of an introduction and six chapters, deals with different aspects of higher education in contexts where Muslims make up a majority and a minority of the population. It is a valuable addition to the comparative education literature despite being uneven and of rather poor production quality. One needs to get past certain essential problems with the volume before appreciating its value. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/22376/ 2010-02-19T00:00:00Z The emotional and psychological impact on children of the political crisis in Iran is an important and neglected issue, say S Deghati & Linda Herrera.Iran’s months of street-demonstrations that erupted after the disputed presidential election of 12 June 2009 have hit the country’s young people - including children - especially hard. The effects are various, damaging, and in many cases. It is a phenomenon that deserves to be considered as a distinct part of the kaleidoscope of Iran’s collective social experience in these dramatic months. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/22394/ 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z This volume is the sixth of a 12-volume series on Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research by Springer and under the editorship of Joseph Zajda (Australian Catholic University, Melbourne Campus). As the title indicates, Book Reviews 507 123 this particular instalment focuses on nation-building, identity and citizenship education and has three editors, J. Zajda, H. Daun and L. Saha, though the contribution of the second two editors is not evident as the volume’s introduction and Chap. 1 are single-authored by Zajda and there are no chapters by the other editors. For an edited volume to succeed and reach a wide audience, it needs a strong introduction that lays out the conceptual framework and explains how the chapters will address a clearly articulated set of questions. ... http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/22416/ 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17316/ 2009-11-09T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17311/ 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17315/ 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Democracy and related concepts—human rights, active learning, civic participation, gender empowerment, and global citizenship—have become the international policy mantras of the post–Cold War era, or what many have labeled a neoimperial order. These bedrock principles of global educational reforms are supposed to contribute to processes of democratization and the forging of a cosmopolitan citizenry that will value pluralism, prosperity, and peace. Yet it is often not evident when these principles are being used to support neoliberal economic reforms, geopolitical aspirations, and security objectives or when they reflect more genuine progressive, universal, and emancipatory methodologies for change. These issues are examined through an interrogation of international development interventions in Egypt since the 1990s, in the spheres of privatization, the growth of educational markets, and curriculum reform for citizenship and moral education. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/21548/ 2008-11-01T00:00:00Z Democracy and related concepts-human rights, active learning, civic participation, gender empowerment, and global citizenship-have become the international policy mantras of the post-Cold War era, or what many have labeled a neoimperial order. These bedrock principles of global educational reforms are supposed to contribute to processes of democratization and the forging of a cosmopolitan citizenry that will value pluralism, prosperity, and peace. Yet it is often not evident when these prinCiples are being used to support neoliberal economic reforms, geopolitical aspirations, and security objectives or when they reflect more genuine progressive, universal, and emancipatory methodologies for change. These issues are examined through an interrogation of international development interventions in Egypt since the 1990s, in the spheres of privatization, the growth of educational markets, and curriculum reform for citizenship and moral education. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17314/ 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z This article is an extract of the paper titled “Education and Empire: Rights-based Reform in the Arab World” presented at the 3rd Conference of the Mediterranean Society of Comparative Education “Intercultural Dialogue through Education” from 11 to 13 May 2008 in Malta. The entire research paper can be requested from the author: herrera@iss.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17864/ 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/21547/ 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, because of their shared Islamic heritage, similar relationship with imperialism, and trajectory of modernization, have undergone comparable—if not identical—paths of educational transformation since the eighteenth century. Educational institutions and social actors therein have been key figures in the perpetuation of tradition and have been harbingers of change and innovation. The pursuit of knowledge (`ilm) within a context of culturally relevant forms of socialization have been the cornerstones of educational endeavors for the populations of this region. Prior to the modern period, when formal institutionalized schooling became the norm, education, understood as the formal transmission of knowledge and codes of behavior to the young, had diverse manifestations. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/21545/ 2001-08-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/21549/ 1999-11-01T00:00:00Z