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Product Description: This volume includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from the 2011 2nd International Conference on Education and Educational Technology (EET 2011) held in Chengdu, China, October 1-2, 2011.The mission of EET 2011 Volume 2 is to provide a forum for researchers, educators, engineers, and government officials involved in the general areas of education management, education theory and education application to disseminate their latest research results and exchange views on the future research directions of these fields...read more

Product Description: The Berlin Workshop Series 2007 presents selected papers from meetings held September 6??8, 2004, at the 7th Annual Forum co-hosted by InWEnt and the World Bank in preparation for the Bank's World Development Report. This volume presents papers from the sessions on Equity and Development, covering issues relating to the role of governments in the promotion of equity, equity-enhancing social transformations, building efficient welfare states, reducing global inequalities, and integration and inequality in the new Europe...read more

Product Description: Written by members of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching, the papers in this volume were presented at an international teaching conference on the issues of theory and practice. Using these contributions from experienced researchers, most of whom are practising teachers, this single volume is international in scope and context, demonstrating differences and similarities between and within countries...read more

Product Description: Public education has received increasing criticism since the beginning of the nineties. Four major areas of concern can be discerned: the technical backwardness of the schools, the disappearance of political legitimization, financial limitations and the conservative school development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The National Academy of Educational Research and the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research conduct a conference each year. This book contains some of the many papers reviewed as most notable in the 1998 and 1999 conferences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Annals of the Joint Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research and the National Academy for Educational Research 1998-1999 (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Possibly more than any other field of education, early child hood education has been an international phenomenon. The great pioneers of the field--Friedrich Froebel of Germany, Maria Montessori of Italy, Margaret McMillan and Susan Isaacs of England--all saw their influence expand weIl beyond the borders of their native lands...read more