Education : Comparative

For large numbers of school students in Japan school has become a battle field. Recent violent events in schools, together with increasing drop-out rates and......

This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of ......

This book has three main recommendations. First, it is necessary to generate basic standards, quality goals, and quality measurement systems. Second, once qu......

This title explores an area of tertiary education that is currently understudied; this is the extent and nature of differentiation and articulation in Africa......

This study examined the institutional advancement programs of successful American private/Catholic universities, two private universities in the United Sates......

Empowered by findings and insights from the wit and wisdom of the indigenous Chaga educational system, Dr. Mosha contends that an authentic educational progr......

This book deftly answers complex questions: Why is there such intense antagonism to the teaching of evolution in the United States? What have the courts said......

International students are often taken for granted in higher education institutions in the United States. Many college and university administrators are unaw......

U.S. institutions of higher education must increase their awareness of international student issues, and International Students: Strengthening a Critical Res......

This book bridges the discourse on globalization and education with international studies on race, class, gender, ethnicity, culture, and multiculturalism, s......

Kalwant Bhopal and Patrick Danaher examine 'race', identity and gender within education and explore the difficulties of relating these concepts to the experi......

This book addresses the problems and recommends solutions to improving K-12 schools by examining the context for U.S. schooling, and the ways some schools ar......

Big business moguls seem determined to dismantle public schools in the name of a market driven system of educating children via vouchers and charter schools.......

Preserving the Public in Public Schools is an exploration of the purposes of public schools, the competing visions of public education, and the values of the......

Preserving the Public in Public Schools is an exploration of the purposes of public schools, the competing visions of public education, and the values of the......

Seven authoritative contributions to the emerging field of pedagogy and to comparative, cultural and policy studies in education. A must for those who want t......

Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobility and th......

Understanding the Montessori Approach is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Montessor......

Understanding the Montessori Approach is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Montessor......

This book is divided into four parts. In Part One the author considers the natural factors which have influenced the various national systems of education. T......