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Written by scholars and professionals from such organizations as the Council of Europe and the European Community, this volume provides a comprehensive examination of education throughout Europe. The particularities of national educational systems are of necessity within its purview, but the overall organization of the volume reflects such thematic and regional concerns as the impact of social and economic integration on education, the modification of educational structures and curricula following the demise of communism in Eastern Europe, degree equivalency, the financing of educational change, privatization, the impact of migration and immigration, national concerns, intercultural education, and multiculturalism.
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About the Author
ELIZABETH SHERMAN SWING, Professor Emerita of Education, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, is the Historian of the Comparative and International Education Society.JURGEN SCHRIEWER is Professor of Comparative Education and Head of the Comparative Education Centre of Humboldt University, Berlin.FRANCOIS ORIVEL is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Education, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Structures of European Education
Systems of Public Administration: Patterns of School Legislation and Management by Herman Avenarius and Theo Liket
The Teaching Profession in Europe: Historical and Sociological Analysis by Antonio Novoa
Educational Studies in Europe by Jurgen Schriewer
Systemic Growth and Expansion
Equality of Opportunity Policies: Expansion of European School Systems Since the Second World War by Bernd Zymek
The Economics of Education: Incentives, Control of Costs, Allocation of Resources by Francois Orivel
The Impact of Family Socialization Processes and Educational Strategies on the Adaptation and Academic Success of Students by Marie Duru-Bellat and Agnes Van Zanten
Gender Issues in European Education Today by Margaret B. Sutherland
European Education in an Area of Global Change
The Heritage of Socialism and Perestroika: Transformation Processes in Central and Eastern European Education by Jurgen Wichmann and Val D. Rust
Schools, Separatism, and Assimilation: The Education of "Others" in Europe by Elizabeth Sherman Swing
Developing the European Dimension in Education: The Roles of the European Union and the Council of Europe by Raymond Ryba
Bibliography
Index