Reference Books In International Education
Development Education in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of the Contexts for Its Emergence, and Its Introduction into the Japanese School System
1st Edition
By Yuri Ishii
May 09, 2003
This book aims to provide an explanation for the slow introduction of Development Education in Japan....
Daughters of the Tharu: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls
1st Edition
By Mary Ann Maslak
April 30, 2003
This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the relationship between the social structure and individual agency conditions and governs girls' educational participation in ...
School Leadership and Administration: Adopting a Cultural Perspective
1st Edition
By Allan Walker, Clive Dimmock
October 04, 2002
This text calls for a broader approach to comparative educational administration: one which uses culture as the principle means of analysis. The articles collected by Allan Walker and Clive Dimmock detail the educational practices and outcomes of other systems while taking into account the ...
Professional Development in Science Teacher Education: Local Insight with Lessons for the Global Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Fraser-Abder
May 24, 2002
This book explores global issues in the professional development of science teachers, and considers classroom applications of teacher training with a comparative lens. The twelve studies collected in this volume span five continents and vastly differing models of teacher education. Carefully ...
Teaching in Japan
1st Edition
By Nobuo K. Shimahara
January 02, 2002
This collection of essays explores teaching in Japan as it relates to contemporary social change in the past two decades. The collection explores day-to-day teaching in Japan from the teacher's erspective relying on first hand accounts by those within the system....
Teacher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Morris, Paul Morris, John Williamson, John Williamson
January 01, 2000
This book investigates the relationships between education and national development in an area of the world where both have acquired considerable importance. It questions assumptions which view education primarily as a direct investment in human capital and approaches which measure the efficacy of...
Third World Education: Quality and Equality
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward R. Beauchamp, Anthony R. Welch
January 01, 2000
This book debunks the argument that quality in education can only be achieved by limiting, or trading off, equality. The quality of schooling is a major issue for Third World nations across the globe. However there is no single measure which is universally accepted. Whether it is, as some ...
Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary Issues and Future Concerns
1st Edition
Edited
By Cynthia Szymanski Sunal
July 01, 1998
Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa addresses the difficulties and achievements in providing basic primary school education, literacy and numeracy, to every child, while furthering knowledge of the cultural heritage....
Social Justice and Third World Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy J. Scrase
December 01, 1996
First Published in 1997. The impact of international social change is already having a marked effect on the Third World in their internal policies, budgets, and development programs. This collection of original articles addresses the importance of education in the creation of social and ...
Women, Education, and Development in Asia: Cross-National Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Grace C.L. Mak
October 01, 1996
This volume of twelve original essays examines the interplay between women's education and development, and if and how it has changed women's status, in selected nations in Asia.Educational expansion in recent decades have benefitted women in Asia at least in quantitative terms. Industrialization ...
Educating Immigrant Children: Schools and Language Minorities in Twelve Nations
1st Edition
By Charles L. Glenn, Ester J. De Jong
August 01, 1996
This study is concerned with the ways in which a dozen knowledge-based societies of Western Europe and the English-speaking world respond to unprecedented cultural and linguistic diversity resulting from the flow of immigrants and refugees since World War II. It asks how public policy has sought ...
Russian Education: Tradition and Transition
1st Edition
By Brian Holmes, Gerald H. Read, Natalya Voskresenskaya
March 01, 1995
In his address to the Communist Party in 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev blamed the Party for the disastrous state of his country. Within five years, the Party had been outlawed, he had been deposed, the Soviet Union had disintegrated, and its economy was in chaos. It is within this framework that the ...