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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 ...
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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 ...
By Colette Chabbott
November 22, 2002
Recent research has advanced the understanding of how global processes have led to standardized ideas about modern schooling. Chabbott provides an insightful examination of how the processes of international development have effected the role of education at a global level since World War II....
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By Michael Crossley, Graham Vulliamy
March 14, 2011
This collection of 11 original in-depth accounts of qualitative research and evaluation in developing countries argues that such innovative methods offer considerable advantages over traditional methods. With examples drawn from Asia, Africa, the South Pacific, Central America and the Caribbean, ...
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....
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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...
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By Noel F. McGinn
September 03, 2013
This book covers the seven-year project involving China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US, to show how collaborative research can help expand worldwide knowledge of education....
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 ...
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 ...
By Yuri Ishii
May 09, 2003
This book aims to provide an explanation for the slow introduction of Development Education in Japan....
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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 ...
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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....