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Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education


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Reissuing works originally published between 1962 and 1995, this collection is made up of volumes that examine insights and data from the practises and situation in one country or area when considering educational practice elsewhere. Many important educational questions are examined from this international and comparative perspective in these volumes. Countries represented here include Russia, the Caribbean, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, China, France, Japan, Israel, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Many of the volumes look at the whole area of comparative education and its methods and theories, while one looks at the Unesco literacy program.

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Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education

Routledge Library Editions: Comparative Education

1st Edition

By Various
May 08, 2018

Reissuing works originally published between 1962 and 1995, this collection is made up of volumes that examine insights and data from the practises and situation in one country or area when considering educational practice elsewhere. Many important educational questions are examined from this ...

Adult Education in China

Adult Education in China

1st Edition

Edited By Carman St John Hunter, Martha McKee Keehn
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1985. China is currently making a massive effort to educate its workforce in a formal and structured system. A good deal has been written about China’s attempts, since 1949, to eradicate illiteracy and to universalise primary and secondary school education but the subject of...

Comparative Education Some Considerations of Method

Comparative Education: Some Considerations of Method

1st Edition

By Brian Holmes
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1981. Presented here is a coherent theory of Comparative Education research, based on the traditions and innovations established by such pioneers as Joseph Lauwerys and Nicholas Hans. From the author’s substantive studies emerges a taxonomy for education based on Popper’s ...

Contemporary Issues in Comparative Education A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Emeritus Vernon Mallinson

Contemporary Issues in Comparative Education: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Emeritus Vernon Mallinson

1st Edition

Edited By Keith Watson, Raymond Wilson
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1985. In the last two decades education in the Third World has greatly expanded, raising many important issues. Some less developed countries have emulated the West in the style and organisation of their academic systems, hence, it could be said, increasing their dependence....

Contemporary Perspectives in Comparative Education

Contemporary Perspectives in Comparative Education

1st Edition

Edited By Robin Burns, Anthony Welch
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1992. This work provides insight into comparative and international education work in Australia and New Zealand, where an emerging local style may be developing into a full blown national approach. The 14 essays address issues such as education in third-world Asia, sexism, ...

Education in Central America and the Caribbean

Education in Central America and the Caribbean

1st Edition

Edited By Colin Brock, Donald Clarkson
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1990. The Caribbean basin is an extremely diverse area in geographical, ethnic and cultural terms. Its educational systems, too, are remarkably varied, reflecting colonial and religious traditions as well as those of a broad range of post-independence movements. Even these ...

Education in East and West Germany A Bibliography

Education in East and West Germany: A Bibliography

1st Edition

By Val D. Rust
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1984. This annotated bibliography is a comprehensive record of English-language materials which focus on Education in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It provides an excellent resource to scholars, beginning with a long ...

Education in Latin America

Education in Latin America

1st Edition

Edited By Colin Brock, Hugh Lawlor
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1985. Latin America is a region where widespread economic, social and political changes are taking place. Some countries, such as Brazil, are becoming new industrial giants, whereas others with good prospects are performing poorly in the economic sphere. In politics, ...

Education in a Small Democracy New Zealand

Education in a Small Democracy: New Zealand

1st Edition

By Ian A. Mclaren
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1974. Here is a detailed discussion of educational change in New Zealand with implications which should provoke a fresh approach both to the educational tradition in Britain and to the problems of other educational systems which are subject to democratic control. It is ...

Europe at School A Study of Primary and Secondary Schools in France, West Germany, Italy, Portugal & Spain

Europe at School: A Study of Primary and Secondary Schools in France, West Germany, Italy, Portugal & Spain

1st Edition

By Norman Newcombe
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1977. This is a lively account of the day-to-day running of European schools based in five countries - France, West Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal. It outlines the organisation of education in these countries, and examines aspects of curriculum, teaching methods, ...

International Policies for Third World Education Unesco, Literacy and Development

International Policies for Third World Education: Unesco, Literacy and Development

1st Edition

By Phillip W. Jones
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1988. Bringing the world close to universal literacy will be a major legacy of the twentieth century. But the rapid and widespread developments in education that have enabled this to happen have not taken place in a social and political vacuum. In some instances conditions ...

Key Issues in Education Comparative Perspectives

Key Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Keith Watson
November 28, 2019

Originally published in 1985. Throughout the world the same key issues of concern recur in education in different countries. However, education specialists all too often are inward looking and consider problems only in the confines of their own country. This book argues that much is to be gained by...

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