Non-Western Educational Traditions: Alternative Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)
By Unknown Author.
Description
This text provides a brief, yet comprehensive, overview of a number of non-Western approaches to educational thought and practice. The history of education, as it has been conceived and taught in the United States (and generally in the West), has focused almost entirely on the ways in which our own educational tradition emerged, developed, and changed over the course of the centuries. Although understandable, this means the many ways that other societies have sought to meet many of the same challenges have been ignored. This book seeks to redress this omission. Its premise is that gaining a...
ISBN(s)
0805834508, 9780805834505
