Politics of Classroom Life: Classroom Management in International Perspective (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. The Growing Economic Competition Among The World's Industrialized And Developing Nations Has Spurred Comparisons And Examinations Of National School Systems. An Important Aspect Of Any School System Is School And Classroom Management, Which Is An Indicator Of The Ultimate Goals That A Nation Has For Its Future Workers. In This Volume, International Scholars Examine The Daily Life Of Elementary School Classrooms In Six Nations With Complex Economies, An International Presence, And Salient Minority And Immigrant Populations. Essays Analyze Contemporary Classroom Management Practices And Policies, As Well As Their Historical And Theoretical Frameworks. Introduction / Nobuo K. Shimahara -- Classroom Management In The United States, 1790-1990 : Evolving Terrain Of Teaching / Barbara Finkelstein -- Classroom Management In The United States : A Shifting Paradigm / Carol S. Weinstein -- Classroom Management In England : Theoretical And Historical Approaches To Control And Discipline / Gary Mcculloch -- Classroom Management In England : Times Of Turmoil : The Impact Of Recent Curriculum Reforms / Gill Helsby And Peter Knight -- Classroom Management In Sweden : Swedish Classroom Rhetoric And Practice / Kjell Granström -- Classroom Management In Sweden : Two Current Case Studies / Christer Stensmo -- Classroom Management In Japan : A Social History Of Teaching And Learning / Manabu Sato -- Classroom Management In Japan : Building A Classroom Community / Nobuo K. Shimahara -- Classroom Management In China : Personalizing Groupism / Grace C.l. Mak -- Classroom Management In Israel : Issues And Concerns / Miriam Ben-peretz. Edited By Nobuo K. Shimahara. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The growing economic competition among the world's industrialized and developing nations has spurred comparisons and examinations of national school systems. An important aspect of any school system is school and classroom management, which is an indicator of the ultimate goals that a nation has for its future workers. In this volume, international scholars examine the daily life of elementary school classrooms in six nations with complex economies, an international presence, and salient minority and immigrant populations. These original essays analyze contemporary classroom management practices and policies, as well as their historical and theoretical frameworks. As Torsten Husen (1995), a Swedish comparative education researcher, remarks, "By its very nature education tends to be provincial and ethnocentric.