"The International Handbook of Women's Education" focuses on the history, current status, and outcome of women's schooling. The book provides comparative information about women's education across a broad spectrum of 23 countries. Each essay considers the history of women's education, ideological, and religious beliefs as well as cultural and political traditions which account for the pace of development of women's education and the particular forms that education has taken. The historical context each essay provides serves as a basis for understanding the extent of sexual inequality in...
"The International Handbook of Women's Education" focuses on the history, current status, and outcome of women's schooling. The book provides compa...
In Emergent Issues in Education, leading scholars in comparative education and in the politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics of education illuminate worldwide trends in critical issues that confront policymakers and practitioners in different national settings. Among the topics raised and analyzed are the organization, governance, and financing of education; the content of curriculum, texts, and tests; and the quality and nature of teacher training. Among the issues examined is the tension that has emerged between the imperative to achieve equality of educational opportunity and...
In Emergent Issues in Education, leading scholars in comparative education and in the politics, sociology, anthropology, and economics of education il...
In 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a report calling for the total reassessment of policy and curriculum governing American education. The commission's findings were met with impassioned interest and volcanic debate. "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war," set the tone of the views expressed in the report. Seemingly overnight, the "education crisis" became a battleground on which citizens, education professionals and numerous...
In 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a report calling for the total reassessment of policy and curriculum governing Ameri...
