Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education
About the Book Series
Reissuing works originally published between 1962 and 1995, this collection is made up of volumes that examine insights and data from the practises and situation in one country or area when considering educational practice elsewhere. Many important educational questions are examined from this international and comparative perspective in these volumes. Countries represented here include Russia, the Caribbean, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, China, France, Japan, Israel, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Many of the volumes look at the whole area of comparative education and its methods and theories, while one looks at the Unesco literacy program.
Progressive Renaissance: America and the Reconstruction of Italian Education, 1943-1962
1st Edition
By Steven F. White
November 28, 2019
Originally published in 1991. This book concerns the reception and spread of American-style progressivism in post-Fascist Italy. It places educational reconstruction in fuller historical perspective referring to newly-available archival sources. Documenting the Allied input to reconstruction ...
Reforms and Restraints in Modern French Education
1st Edition
By W. R. Fraser
November 28, 2019
Originally published in 1971. This book looks at the French educational services. which had been being reformed over the 1960s. The dynamic for change stemmed from population pressures, higher aspirations and students’ dissatisfaction. The author shows how attempts to reform have been limited by ...
The French Education System
1st Edition
By H. D. Lewis
November 28, 2019
Originally published in 1985. The French education system is unique in many ways and provides a useful contrast for those in all English-speaking countries to their own education system. The nature of the system; the resulting multiplicity of Inspectors; emphasis on nursery and primary schools and ...
The Gifted Disadvantaged: A Ten Year Longitudinal Study of Compensatory Education in Israel
1st Edition
By Moshe Smilansky, David Nevo
November 28, 2019
Originally published in 1979. This study was supported by a grant from the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague, Netherlands. The Gifted Disadvantaged is the result of a ten year study, and presents an innovative program in the education of the more gifted among the socially disadvantaged, ...
The Russian Influence on English Education
1st Edition
By W. H. G. Armytage
November 28, 2019
Originally published in 1969. British merchants first penetrated to Moscow in the early 16th century. From that time until today developments in Russia have influenced Britain in innumerable ways - sometimes unexpectedly. In this volume Professor Armytage traces this influence, showing how Tolstoy,...
The Soviet Secondary School
1st Edition
By Dora Shturman
November 28, 2019
Originally published in 1988. The Soviet secondary school is an important topic for comparative educationalists and also for political scientists interested in how the Soviet education system shapes the outlook of Soviet children. This book charts developments in the Soviet secondary school, ...
The Unification of German Education
1st Edition
By Val D. Rust, Diane Rust
November 28, 2019
Originally published in 1995. This study of the integration of East and West German education following the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1989 focuses on policy formation and implementation during this period of great social and political turbulence. It is the result of a research ...
World Perspectives in Education
1st Edition
By Edmund J. King
November 28, 2019
Originally published in 1962. In this book the main problems of contemporary education are illustrated with fresh material from many countries and assessed in a context of rapid change in technology, society, and politics. Familiar educational concerns are carefully considered; but the altered ...
Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education
1st Edition
By Various
May 08, 2018
Reissuing works originally published between 1962 and 1995, this collection is made up of volumes that examine insights and data from the practises and situation in one country or area when considering educational practice elsewhere. Many important educational questions are examined from this ...