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Education in East Asia
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; Not AvailableEducation in East Asia is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macao, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan, covering local regional developments in each country... more...
Gendered Subjects (RLE Feminist Theory)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00The phrase ?feminist pedagogy? couples the contemporary and the traditional, joining current political movements with a concern for the transmission of knowledge more ancient than the Greek word for teaching. Now, two decades after the first Women?s Studies courses appeared on campuses, their place in higher education happily needs little demonstration.... more...
Zur Kritik europäischer Hochschulpolitik
Springer Fachmedien 2009; US$ 54.99The Right to Learn
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 53.95The concept of the 'learning society' brings to mind access to education for all and a culture of lifelong learning. But government interventions in education such as the National Curriculum and standardized tests have only served to consolidate the connection between learning and schooling. Schools, furthermore, now have to juggle an increasingly... more...
Girls and Literacy in America
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 85.00This work offers a tour of the opportunities, obstacles and achievements in girls' education from the limited possibilities of colonial days to the wide-open potential of the Internet generation. It features six essays focused on particular historical periods. more...
Schooling and the Politics of Disaster
Routledge 2007; US$ 35.95Addresses how disaster is used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education. This collection explores how education policy is reshaped by disaster politics. It tackles issues such as No Child Left Behind, the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the making of educational funding crises in the US, and the Iraq War. more...
Reform and Change in Higher Education
Springer 2006; US$ 49.99This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of implementation analysis in higher education and an extensive review of relevant recent literature. Coverage analyzes the effective and specific complexities of the implementation of higher education policies in several countries, including: Australia, Austria, Finland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands,... more...
The Inclusion of Other Women
Springer 2006; US$ 149.99The Inclusion of Other Women brings together insights and narratives of three women, of European, Arab and of Romà descent, who address issues of feminism and social inclusion within the framework of adult education and learning. The authors discuss the experiences of the "other women": non-academic women who have been historically silenced... more...
University Dynamics and European Integration
Springer 2007; US$ 149.99The European University is under stress. It has become commonplace to argue that radical reforms are needed. The claim is that while environments are changing rapidly, European universities do not learn, adapt and reform themselves fast enough. Reform plans comprise the purposes of universities, i.e. definitions of what the University is, can be and... more...









