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History Education and National Identity in East Asia

Edited by Edward Vickers

Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94808-1 (Routledge)

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Quranic Schools

Agents of Preservation and Change

By Helen N. Boyle

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94635-3 (Routledge)

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Learning through Collaborative Research

The Six Nation Education Research Project

Edited by Noel F. McGinn

This book covers the seven-year project involving China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland, and the US, to show how collaborative research can help expand worldwide knowledge…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94933-0 (Routledge)

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Re-Imagining Comparative Education

Postfoundational Ideas and Applications for Critical Times

Edited by Peter Ninnes, Sonia Mehta

The original essays included here, by up and coming scholars in the field, illustrate the potential and diversity of post-foundational ideas as applied to comparative…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94817-3 (Routledge)

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Inside Japanese Classrooms

The Heart of Education

By Nancy Sato

This detailed ethnographic study of fifth- and sixth-grade classrooms offers new insights into Japanese culture, as many aspects of daily social life are embedded in…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2115-6 (Routledge)

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Crisis and Hope

The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America

Edited by Gustavo Fischman, Stephen Ball, Silvina Gvirtz

This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93535-7 (Routledge)

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Development Education in Japan

A Comparative Analysis of the Contexts for Its Emergence, and Its Introduction into the Japanese School System

By Yuri Ishii

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93436-7 (Routledge)

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Daughters of the Tharu

Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls

By Mary Ann Maslak

This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93467-1 (Routledge)

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School Leadership and Administration

The Cultural Context

By Allan Walker, Clive Dimmock

Globalization has enabled educational theory, policy, and practice to cross national boundaries with unprecedented ease, thus encouraging administrators around the world to share strategies and…

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2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93294-3 (Routledge)

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Professional Development in Science Teacher Education

Local Insight with Lessons for the Global Community

Edited by Pamela Fraser-Abder

This book explores global issues in the professional development of science teachers, and considers classroom applications of teacher training with a comparative lens. The twelve…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3912-0 (Routledge)

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