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National Ranking
648

Overview

Joel Samoff is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed research primarily within the Social Sciences. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including Political Science and International Relations, Education, and Demography.

The main areas of focus in Joel Samoff's research include:

  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities

These topics reflect an engagement with issues surrounding education systems at a global scale, examining policies, reforms, cultural dimensions, and inequalities related to education.

Joel Samoff's publication record shows a concentration on articles within social science disciplines, although no specific recent papers or frequent co-authors are listed. Likewise, there are no noted frequent publication venues or book publications attributed to them in the available data.

Overall, their academic contributions address intersections between education and political or demographic frameworks, offering insights into the complexities of global education reform and multicultural educational contexts.

Best Publications

  • Education and Social Transition in the Third World

    Martin Carnoy;Joel Samoff

  • Institutionalizing International Influence

    Joel Samoff

  • The Promise of Partnership and Continuities of Dependence: External Support to Higher Education in Africa

    Joel Samoff;Bidemi Carrol

  • Decentralization: The Politics of Interventionism

    Joel Samoff

  • Education sector analysis in Africa: limited national control and even less national ownership

    Joel Samoff

  • Which priorities and strategies for education

    Joel Samoff

  • Managing Knowledge and Storing Wisdom? New Forms of Foreign Aid?

    Joel Samoff;Nelly P. Stromquist

  • Coping with crisis: austerity, adjustment and human resources

    Joel Samoff

  • Tanzania And The Imf: The Dynamics Of Liberalization

    Horace Campbell;Howard Stein;Joel Samoff

  • The World Bank and Education

    Steven J. Klees;Joel Samoff;Nelly P. Stromquist

  • The Reconstruction of Schooling in Africa

    Joel Samoff

  • FROM MANPOWER PLANNING TO THE KNOWLEDGE ERA: WORLD BANK POLICIES ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA

    Joel Samoff;Bidemi Carrol

  • The bureaucracy and the bourgeoisie : decentralization and class structure in Tanzania

    Joel Samoff

  • No Teacher Guide, No Textbooks, No Chairs: Contending with Crisis in African Education.

    Joel Samoff

  • From funding projects to supporting sectors? Observation on the aid relationship in Burkina Faso

    Joel Samoff

  • The intellectual/financial complex of foreign aid

    Joel Samoff

  • Aid and development in Southern Africa

    Joel Samoff;David Jones

  • Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism

    Joel Samoff;Samir Amin;Brian Pierce

  • Crossing borders: Research in comparative and international education

    Jesse Foster;Nii Antiaye Addy;Joel Samoff

  • Everyone Has the Right to Education

    Joel Samoff

  • Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local

    Joel Samoff;B. Carrol

  • The Gezira scheme : an illusion of development

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  • Continuities of Dependence: External Support to Higher Education in Africa.

    Joel Samoff;Bidemi Carrol

  • Economic Development and Urban Migration: Tanzania 1900-1971.

    Joel Samoff;R. H. Sabot

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Carnoy
Martin Carnoy Stanford University
Carlos Alberto Torres
Carlos Alberto Torres University of California, Los Angeles
Robin Cohen
Robin Cohen University of Waterloo
Samir Amin
Samir Amin United Nations

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