This international-contributed work examines the fundamental thinking about the nature and purpose of international education in the context of global issues. Detailing improvements in practice worldwide, it explores the relationship between current thinking and practice in international education, and how each is evolving. With contributions from, among others, the Director of the United Nations International School in New York, the Principal of an international school in Japan, it looks at issues such as inclusive and encapsulated school cultures and an international curriculum as a...

International schools are widespread throughout the world. This work tackles the issues that staff and management of these schools need to address in order to ensure that their teaching and organization is of a high standard and quality. Based on the editors' work and experience at the Bath University Centre for the Study of Education in an International Context, the book contains a wide range of contributions from international school experts around the world, who examine the issues affecting all international schools, regardless of country.

Edited by three leading figures in the field, this book offers an absolutely authoritative interpretation of international education today. Under the umbrella of groups such as the International Baccalaureate Organization, academic research, increasing student numbers and interest from national school systems, international schools are rapidly developing in terms of curriculum, standards and influence. This book brings together present thinking on all aspects of international education, its management and the best practices.
Truly international in scope, this is a book that anyone...

The growth in the number of international schools has been marked in recent years. However, the interest in international education goes beyond the considerable international schools sector, with national schools systems increasingly looking to international models of education and wide interest in qualifications such as the International Baccalaureate. Each chapter of this volume addresses a key issue in international education. It seeks to blend practical issues with leading research. This revised edition includes a new introduction by the editors.

The award-winning auteur producer-director Dan Curtis made television history with the epic miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the horror movies The Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror, and the cult-classic Gothic serial Dark Shadows. Curtis also generated a large body of work in the mystery genre. This book provides an overview of Dan Curtis's 40-year-long career, as well as an examination of 15 mysteries and crime dramas that Curtis produced, co-wrote, and/or directed, including Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon; Melvin Purvis, G-Man; The Kansas City Massacre; The...

Kristy and Jeff Thompson are a sister and brother traveling team. We have always loved books. Books in many ways inspired this trip. When Kristy was in elementary school her favorite books were travel books from the school library. Jeff as a history buff wanted to see the places that he had spent years studying. Kristy and Jeff hope that other people will be inspired to go there and to learn about its history. Both cities have so much to offer. "Youth is the time to travel-both in mind and in body-to try the manners of different nations. I travel not to go to anywhere...but to simply go."...