International & Comparative Education

This is an essential research companion for students, academics, and policymakers investigating the global phenomenon of widening access to education...

This comprehensive handbook is the ultimate reference work, providing authoritative and international overviews of all aspects of schools and schooling in Asia. Split into 19 sections it covers curriculum, learning and assessment, private supplementary tutoring, special education, gender issues, eth..

First published in 1989, this book primarily sets out to provide detailed accounts of the policy towards and the provision of vocational education and training in five countries. Professor Cantor concentrates on the training of skilled personnel at operative, craft, and technician levels. ..

Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives is the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale...

Society and Education explores the relation of society to education in Europe, as well as its comparative perspective towards overseas societies and their institutions...

Student Financing of Higher Education..

This text foregrounds the diversity that characterises various educational settings, considering how histories and geographies of oppression, exclusion and marginalisation impact on teacher education. Global trends including migration and urbanization; and broadening understandings of race, religion..

In this book Tristan Bunnell explores the changing landscape of international schooling and discusses the implications of these changes, both in terms of theoretically conceptualizing the scale, nature and purpose of the field, and in terms of practically serving and administering the growing indust..

In this book Tristan Bunnell explores the changing landscape of international schooling and discusses the implications of these changes, both in terms of theoretically conceptualizing the scale, nature and purpose of the field, and in terms of practically serving and administering the growing indust..

Bringing together a collection of essays by Hannu Simola and his colleagues, this book analyses the key dimensions of schooling in Finland to provide a critical, analytical and uncompromising picture of the Finnish education system. Going beyond the story of success, the book reveals the complexitie..

Bringing together a collection of essays by Hannu Simola and his colleagues, this book analyses the key dimensions of schooling in Finland to provide a critical, analytical and uncompromising picture of the Finnish education system. Going beyond the story of success, the book reveals the complexitie..

Originally published in 1985. This book provides an overview of the French education system and all its components. It discusses developments since the start of the Fifth Republic in 1958 and it relates the developments to changing political forces...