Office Hours: Tuesdays: 10-12 or by appointment
Office: 362 Ed. Bldg.
Phone: 333-5875
e-mail: shorish@uiuc.edu

Readings:

1. Robert Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torres (Editors), Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local, 1999.
2. Packet of reading materials from UpClose Copy Shop, Sixth & John Streets, Champaign.

Evaluation:

• Midterm (35%), final (50%), class participation (15%).
• Class participation is class discussions, and e-mail writings.
• ATTENDANCE IS PREREQUISITE TO THE COURSE.

A. Ways of Knowing

1. Frederick Wirt and M. Mobin Shorish, "The Uses of Comparative Ethnicity Research," Comparative Education Review, (February 1993), pp. 1-8 [packet]
2. Anthony Welch, "Knowledge and Legitimization in Comparative Education," Comparative Education Review (August 1991), pp. 508-521 [packet]
3. Anthony Welch,"The Triumph of Technocracy or the Collapse of Certainty?" Arnove & Torres, [ch 1], pp., 25-49.
4. Robert Arnove, "Reframing Comparative Education..." Arnove & Torres, pp. 1-23
5. Shorish, "Globalization and Culture," [packet]
6. Shorish, "Messianic Foreign Assistance and Education," (packet);
7. Rolland Paulston, "Mapping Visual Culture in Comparative Education," Compare, v. 27, no. 2, (1997) [packet]

B. Educating the Powerless

8. Farrell, "Changing Conceptions of Equality of Education: Forty Years of Comparative Evidence," Arnove & Torres, pp., 149-177.
9. John Ogbu, "Minority Status and Schooling in Plural Societies," CER (June 1983), pp. 168-90 [packet]
10. Snehendu Karr, and others, "Empowerment of Women for Health Promotion." [Packet]
11. Stromquist, "Women's Education in the Twenty First Century: Balance and Prospects," Arnove and Torres, pp. 179-205.
12. Shorish, "A Perspective on Women Education," [packet]

C. Colonial Legacy and Education

13. Harry Wray, "Change and continuity in Modern Japanese Educational History: Allied Occupational Reforms Forty Years Later," CER (Aug. 91) PP., 447-75; [packet]
14. M. Mobin Shorish, "The Pedagogical Linguistic and Logistical 13. Problems of Teaching Russian to the Local Soviet Central Asians, "Slavic Review, September 1976, pp. 443-462 [packet];
15. Shorish, "Colonial Legacy & Reform," [packet]

D. AREA STUDIES

16. Berman, "The Political Economy of Educational Reform in Australia, England and Wales, and the United States," Arnove and Torres, pp., 257-282;
17. Arnove, Franz, Mollis, & Torres, "Education in Latin America at the end of the 1990s," Arnove & Torres, pp. 305-328;
18. Zhixin Su, "Asian Education," Arnove and Torres, pp. 329-344;
19. Christina, Mehran & Mir, "Education in the Middle East," Arnove & Torres, pp., 345-370;
20. Bacur and Eklof, "Russia and Eastern Europe, " pp., 371-392;
21. Samoff, "No Teachers Guide, No Textbooks, No Chairs: Contending with Crisis in African Education," Arnove & Torres, pp., 393-431.