Product Description: The World Leaders in Education: Lessons from the Successes and Drawbacks of Their Methods explores the practices and policies that the highest-ranking nations in education implement to achieve their success. Topics include the education of disadvantaged students; cultural attitudes toward education; teacher preparation; and teacher salaries...read more

Product Description: From Europe and the USA to Sub-Saharan Africa and the emerging economic powers of Brazil, China and India, this book is an essential one-volume guide to the major issues in comparative and international education today and the insights that rigorous and appropriate study can offer for education provision, policy and practice...read more

Product Description: This series provides readers with the information they need to think critically about the worldwide implications of global issues; each volume focuses on a controversial topic of worldwide importance and offers a panoramic view of opinions...read more

Product Description: Over a decade after the World Conference on Education for All (WCEA) held in Jomtien, Thailand, March 1990, as well as the goals set a decade later in Dakar at the World Forum of Education for All (EFA) in April 2000, the world still has 72 million out-of-school children, the majority of them (57 per cent) are girls mostly living in rural areas and city slums...read more

Product Description: Anthropologist Ad Borsboom devoted his academic career from 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge. Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years of fieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics, students, and the general public...read more

Product Description: International Perspectives on Education draws on the knowledge and experience of a distinguished team of international educationists, including Howard Gardner and Kristján Kristjánsson. Each chapter can be accessed as a resource on a specific topic, but the chapters are also grouped into three sections to provide an invaluable source of thinking and knowledge from leading thinkers and practitioners in their fields: Perspectives on Education; Supporting the Learning Process; and Teachers and Professional Development...read more

Product Description: This groundbreaking, comprehensive new text explores major issues in education today through international and intercultural research. Contributors draw on comparative research from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and touch upon such themes as the history and philosophy of comparative education, the right to education, teacher formation, alternative pedagogies, gender, international assessments, Indigenous knowledge, peace building, and global citizenship...read more

Product Description: This text explores major issues in education today through international and intercultural research. Suitable both for teachers and graduate students, the book stimulates students to reflect on their future roles in education through exposure to debates about teaching and learning in diverse settings...read more

Product Description: Comparative Education invites readers to consider theory in comparative education, purposes of schooling, educational access and opportunity, education accountability and authority, teacher professionalism, and how globalization is impacting education...read more

Product Description: This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in history of education today. Focusing on the enduring trends in this field, this lively and informative Reader provides broad coverage of the subject and includes crucial topics such as:* higher education* informal agencies of education* schooling, the state and local government* education and social change and inequality* curriculum* teachers and pupils* education, work and the economy* education and national identity...read more

Product Description: In Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Education, Rita J. Simon and Lisa Banks provide a broad perspective on education in twenty countries. This work examines and compares the system of education, literacy rates, enrollment rates, types of public and private schools, years of compulsory education, and the amount of money the government allocates to education in the different societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Totally Awesome Strategies for Teaching Health® gives educators the tools they need to develop and implement K–12 health education curricula focusing on the National Health Education Standards. It includes the Meeks Heit Umbrella of Comprehensive School Health Education, Teaching Masters that can be used to teach the National Health Education Standards at each grade level, Family Health Newslettters, motivating and totally awesome® Lesson Plans for each grade level, Teaching Masters and Student Worksheets, a Health Resource Guide, and a state-of-the-art K–12 Curriculum Guide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Organized topically rather than theoretically, this well-rounded and thorough collection brings together some of the top scholars in the field, providing a readable text for introductory comparative education students.

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Product Description: When U.S. schools implement or consider reform, it is useful to examine the reform experiences of other countries with high educational standards. This carefully researched book by a seasoned educator provides valuable insight into the education policies and practices of Japan, Canada, Germany, Denmark, and England...read more

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