TY - JOUR
AU - Sedlak, Michael
AB - School Effectiveness and School Improvement 0924-3453/03/1404-467$16.00 2003, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 467–469 Swets & Zeitlinger BOOK REVIEW Culture and Pedagogy: International Comparisons in Primary Education Author: Robin Alexander Malden, MA: Blackwell 2001. ISBN: 0-631-22051-8 Price US $44.95 688 pages Reviewed by: Michael Sedlak Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Robin Alexander’s Culture and Pedagogy received the American Educational Research Association’s ‘‘Outstanding Book of the Year Award’’ this past year. This distinguished volume deserved the award. First, Culture and Pedagogy is distinguished by its ambition: to reconstruct the context and practice of primary education (for children between approximately 5 and 10) in five nations: England, France, India, Russia, and the United States. Professor Alexander spent well over a decade deeply engaged in carefully selected cases reasonably expected to capture essential qualities of mass public education in those nations with radically different traditions of schooling. His efforts to understand and contrast the traditions, values, investments, machinery of control, and organizational forms – based on extensive interviews with communities of policy-makers, citizens, and professional educators – coupled with an acute reading of relevant national historical, policy, and local system- level documents, are represented in the first two parts of his 
TI - Culture and Pedagogy: International Comparisons in Primary Education
JF - School Effectiveness and School Improvement
DO - 10.1076/sesi.14.4.467.17151
DA - 2003-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/culture-and-pedagogy-international-comparisons-in-primary-education-EdYi2zpvvv
SP - 467
EP - 469
VL - 14
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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