World Yearbook of Education
About the Book Series
Examining a different topical subject each year, these fascinating books put forward a wide range of perspectives and dialogue from all over the world. With the best and most pivotal work of leading educational thinkers and writers from 1965 to the present day, these essential reference titles provide a complete history of the development of education around the globe. Available individually or in library-ready sets, this is the indispensable atlas of education, mapping ever changing aspects of theory, policy, teaching and learning.
World Yearbook of Education 2016: The Global Education Industry
1st Edition
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By Antoni Verger, Christopher Lubienski, Gita Steiner-Khamsi
June 16, 2017
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education series examines the global education industry both in OECD* countries as well as developing countries, and presents the works of scholars based in different parts of the word who have significantly contributed to this area of research. Focusing ...
World Yearbook of Education 2015: Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage
1st Edition
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By Agnes Van Zanten, Stephen Ball, Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin
February 09, 2017
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce, establish or redefine their position. The ...
World Yearbook of Education 1966: Church and State in Education
1st Edition
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By George Z. F. Bereday, Joseph A. Lauwerys
March 03, 2016
First published in 2005. Broadly speaking, church-state relations in education turn nowadays upon two chief issues: I. Should religion be taught in state schools? And if so, may the state interfere with the teaching? 2. In countries where separate schools, under church control, exist should they ...
World Yearbook of Education 1981: Education of Minorities
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By Jacquetta Megarry, Stanley Nisbet, Eric Hoyle
May 16, 2014
First Published in 2005. The phrase 'education of minorities' raises a variety of questions. As a World Yearbook theme it demands clarification. We are using the word 'minority' to refer not to relative numbers but to 'the condition of being inferior or subordinate'. This could be taken to include ...
World Yearbook of Education 2011: Curriculum in Today’s World: Configuring Knowledge, Identities, Work and Politics
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By Lyn Yates, Madeleine Grumet
December 18, 2013
How do curriculum, conceptions of knowledge and the schooling experiences of young people engage the great issues of this tumultuous time? Curriculum is always influenced by the events that shape our world, but when testing and bench-marking preoccupy us, we can forget the world that is both the ...
World Yearbook of Education 2012: Policy Borrowing and Lending in Education
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By Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Florian Waldow
December 09, 2013
The phenomenon of "travelling reforms" has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny. The fact that the same set of educational reforms is transferred from one country to another made scholars wonder whether policy transfer has increased as a result of ...
World Yearbook of Education 2003: Language Education
1st Edition
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By Jill Bourne, Euan Reid
October 18, 2013
The issues raised by the role of language in education are some of the most important and contentious faced by education systems across the globe. Language is embedded in the concepts of nationhood and identity, and is therefore directly linked to the very social and political fabric of a ...
World Yearbook of Education 2010: Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power
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By Andre Elias Mazawi, Ronald Sultana
July 08, 2013
The World Yearbook of Education 2010 volume, Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power, strives to do justice to the complex processes and dynamics behind the world of Arab education. Western interest in all things ‘Arab’ has greatly increased over the ...
World Yearbook of Education 2008: Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education
1st Edition
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By Debbie Epstein, Rebecca Boden, Rosemary Deem, Fazal Rizvi, Susan Wright
June 21, 2013
This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in ...
World Yearbook of Education 1972/3: Universities Facing the Future
1st Edition
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By W. R. Niblett, R. Freeman Butts, Brian Holmes
June 06, 2013
|Published in the year 2005, World Yearbook of Education 1972/3 is a valuable contrubtion to the field of Major Works....
World Yearbook of Education 1985: Research, Policy and Practice
1st Edition
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By John Nisbet, Jacquetta Megarry, Stanley Nisbet
June 06, 2013
Published in the year 2005, World Yearbook of Education 1985, is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works....
World Yearbook of Education 1967: Educational Planning
1st Edition
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By George Z. F. Bereday, Joseph A. Lauwerys, Mark Blaug
May 03, 2013
First published in 2005. By focusing on planning this Year Book follows a tradition well established in Comparative Education. This year book hopes that by drawing together into one volume contributions from many distinguished specialists, it hopes to help in the necessary organization and ...