TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION: Diverse Perspectives on the Global-Local Analysis in Comparative Education Research; ABOUT THE CHAPTERS; REFERENCES; 2. GLOBALIZATION, INNOVATION, AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE TO EDUCATIONAL REFORM: Lessons from International Testing; GLOBALIZATION AND ITS AGENTS; NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL REGIMES AND TEST SUCCESS; TEST SCORES AND THE DEMISE OF MACRO POLICY; EFFECTS ON SCHOOLED KNOWLEDGE; WORLD DIFFUSION OF A SHARED 'SCHOOLED' CULTURE; MODELS OF 'BEST PRACTICES'; CULTURAL RESISTANCE: EFFECTS OF NATIONAL CONTEXTS; Regional Ethnic-Religious Cultures

Policy Contexts and the Failure of "Best Practices"Organizational Sources of Failure: De-Coupling of Reform from Practice; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 3. COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL EDUCATION IN LATIN AMERICA: Human Rights Education and Women's Rights; INTRODUCTION; HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WHY THE CHANGES? THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; External Level Explanations; Domestic Institutions and Actors; ISSUE NETWORKS, HRE, AND SEX EDUCATION; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES

4. THE EFFECTS OF NORMATIVE ASSUMPTIONS ON MICRO-LEVEL ACTIONS IN EDUCATION: The Contextualized Impact of Teaching with ICT in Turkey and the USAINTRODUCTION; THE GLOBAL ICT DISCOURSE; RESEARCH ON ICT AND EDUCATION; ICT and Student Achievement; ICT-Based Classroom Instruction; Variations in ICT Implementation; Contextual Effects in Education; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; Critiques of Neo-Institutional Theory; METHODOLOGY; Variables; Data Limitations; RESULTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 5. TRAVELING TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODEL: Local Interpretation and Adaptation of Lesson Study in Florida

INTRODUCTIONBACKGROUND; Globalization and Teacher Reforms; Lesson Study Traveling from Japan to the U.S.; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: SENSE-MAKING PERSPECTIVE IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; METHODS; RESULTS; Lesson Study and Organizational Contexts of Teacher Learning in Japan; Interpretation and Adaptation of Lesson Study in Florida; Organizational Contexts and Beliefs about Teacher Professional Development; CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION; NOTE; REFERENCES; 6. GLOBALIZED LOCAL & LOCALIZED GLOBAL IN A WOMEN'S EDUCATION PROJECT IN PAKISTAN; Muslim Women as Local/Global Agents

Women's Education: The Localized Global & Globalized Local in PakistanMETHODS AND PARTICIPANTS; Education, Rights, and Honor: The Project of Women's Education in Pakistan; Education and Choice in Marriage; Education and Family Honor; Education: Wisdom; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 7. THE NEW MODELS OF PUBLIC POLICY ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE IN SPAIN: Trends and Implications; INTRODUCTION; The Spanish Early Childhood Education and Care System; Educa3 Program in Spain; The Mechanisms of Privatization in Early Childhood Education and Care in Spain; CONCLUSION; NOTE; REFERENCES