This title covers the history of schooling from ancient times to the present, including biographies of major non-western figures as well as the canon of educational innovators. The author's synthesizes historical, philosophical and cultural standpoints and the text contains practical teaching applications alongside theory and an integrated emphasis of diversity and other multicultural themes.

This title covers the history of schooling from ancient times to the present, including biographies of major non-western figures as well as the canon of educational innovators. The author's synthesizes historical, philosophical and cultural standpoints and the text contains practical teaching applications alongside theory and an integrated emphasis of diversity and other multicultural themes.

The Evolution of the Social Sciences charts the development of the main social sciences--religion, history, philosophy, law, sociology, anthropology, and economics--through an examination of the lives and works of each discipline's key historical figures. Sharpes concentrates on areas of convergence, overlap, and disjunction, discussing the many ways that these figures have influenced scholarly development throughout the social sciences. Written in an engaging style accessible to a wide academic audience, this biographical map demonstrates the diversity and range of inquiries into human...

This Handbook provides windows into worldwide research endeavors, including countries not usually widely known in international education studies. The goal of this compendium is to foster the understanding of research and education from different national and cultural perspectives, and to support the exchange of ideas and people who conduct research and development activities. From these varied individual and collaborative research projects we can infer directions for our own research agenda and for policy development. The resulting chapters represent a respectable cross-section of...