Product Description: Education in Mexico, Central America and the Latin Caribbean examines the development and practice of education in México, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panamá. The chapters, written by local experts, provide an overview of the structure, aims and purposes of education in each of these ten countries with very different socio-economic backgrounds...read more

Product Description: The term ‘space’ is inherently geographical. Educational provision and activity takes place within spaces ranging from a room at home or in a school to a campus to an administrative area which could be a state within a country, a whole country or a group of countries...read more

Product Description: Education in North America is a comprehensive critical reference guide to the main educational themes in Canada and the United States, from their historical roots to the present time. Bringing a global awareness to the discussion of key contemporary issues and recent reforms in North American education, this volume highlights the similarities and the differences in the development of educational provisions in both countries...read more

Product Description: First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Education in the United Kingdom is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, The Isle of Man, The Channel Islands, Gibraltar, The Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Anguilla and The British Overseas Territories...read more

Product Description: Education in Europe is a set of four comprehensive critical reference guides to education in the region:Education in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, edited by Nadiya IvanenkoEducation in the European Union: Pre-2003 Member States, edited by Trevor CornerEducation in the European Union: Post-2003 Member States, edited by Trevor CornerEducation in the United Kingdom, edited by Colin Brock Each volume includes a substantial editorial introduction, followed by individual country chapters written by indigenous authors who are recognised experts in their field, allowing for special local factors to emerge and to be explained with authority and cultural understanding...read more

Product Description: Education in Africa is a set of three comprehensive critical reference guides to education in the region:Education in East and Central Africa, edited by Charl Wolhuter Education in West Africa, edited by Emefa Takyi-AmoakoEducation in Southern Africa, edited by Clive HarberEach volume includes a substantial editorial introduction, followed by individual country chapters written by indigenous authors who are recognised experts in their field, allowing for special local factors to emerge and to be explained with authority and cultural understanding...read more

Product Description: Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities provides a thorough examination of up-to-date case studies of educational provision to travelling communities and indigenous people in their homelands or in host countries...read more

Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine provides an overview of education response – what it is and how it can be improved in relation to one of the more persistent issues globally. Poverty, famine and/or malnutrition exist in variant degrees among developing and developed nations and the issue figures prominently in international development. This book provides a global overview of education and such issues through case study samples of countries within various regions and offers insights and proposes solutions on how educational response can help alleviate this challenge. Each chapter contains contemporary questions to encourage active engagement with the material and an annotated list of suggested reading to support further exploration.

Product Description: Education in East and Central Africa is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome, Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Rwanda...read more

Product Description: Education in Eastern Europe and Eurasia provides an essential reference resource to education development and key education issues in the region. Academics and researchers working in the field cover education and educational development in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Israel...read more

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This book brings together contributors from the different member states of the European Union in order to understand the different degrees of subscription to the concept of Europe and the role education plays in such a process. This second edition includes the new countries which have become part of the union and also considers recent developments in policy and practice. Countries covered are: Austria; Belgium; Denmark; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Portugal; Spain; Sweden and the UK. All sectors of education are dealt with in each case and the central theme of the European dimension is examined throughout. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Combines an overview of the regional education situation with analysis of individual countries, showing an extremely high level of geographical, ethnic and cultural diversity. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of comparative education.

Product Description: Christianity has been one of the most potent forces in the development of education. This book critically examines this influence and discusses its political implications.

Product Description: First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: 196p hardback with burgundy laminated jacket, first edition, stickers, pages clean with charts, references and index, printed from typescript, very good copy from a Cambridge college library