Product Description: Hardbound. Europe is undergoing rapid and profound social and political change, and time-honoured methods and practices are being challenged as a result. Nowhere is this challenge more pressing and relevant than in education, which is charged with the task of preparing future generations for the New Europe...read more

Product Description: Pergamon is pleased to announce publication of the second in a series of Supplementary Volumes which extend and update the widely acclaimed International Encyclopedia of Education. This substantial volume contains 170 articles on a range of new and significant topics in education throughout the world...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on the school as an institution and its problems in a modern, highly industrialised society. In such a society formal education has become an increasingly important asset in the life career of an individual and the economic development of society...read more

Product Description: Torsten Husen has brought together in this volume a collection of his own essays, the topics of which reflect his long and distinguished career both as an academic and as a practical researcher. The essays are grouped under six main themes on which he has worked over the years: research and policy making; educational reforms; equality and meritocracy; the impact of education on career; international and comparative dimensions; and present trends and future perspectives...read more