Table of Contents
Introduction - Edward R. Beauchamp
Part One: Ways of Thinking About Comparative Education
1. Comparing Futures or Comparing Pasts? - Robert Cowen
2. Mapping Comparative Education After Post-Modernity - Rolland Paulston
3. Mapping Rural Women's Perspectives on Nonformal Education Experiences - Zebun Mahmed
4. Imagining Comparative Education: Past, Present and Future - Rolland Paulston
5. Comparative Education Redefined - Ronald Price
Part Two. Equity and Education
6. Education and Muslim Identity: The Case of France - Leslie J. Limage
7. The State, Adult Literacy Policy, and Inequality in Botswana - Frank Youngman
8. Juvenile Delinquency and Reformatory Education in China - Irving Epstein
9. The Closing of the Gender Gap in Schooling: The Case of Thailand - John Knodel
10. Peace Education and the Comparative Study of Education - Robin J. Burns and Robert Aspeslagh
Part Three: Education, Development and Policy Planning
11. Development Studies and Comparative Education: Context, Content, Comparison and
Contributors - Angela Little
12. Qualitative Research and Educational Policy-Making: Approaching the Reality in Developing Countries - Kai-Ming Cheng
13. The Limits of Modern Education - William K. Cummings
14. Improving the Quality of Basic Education? The Strategies of the World Bank - Rosa Maria Torres
15. Alternative Development and Education: Economic Interests and Cultural Practices in the - Amazon Sheila Aikman
16. Public Policies on Gender and Education in Paraguay: The Project for Equal Opportunities - Carmen Colazo
Part Four . Teachers and Teaching
17. Comparative Perspectives on Professionalism Among American, British, German and Finnish Teachers Reijo Raivola
18. Classroom Management in Japan - Nobuo K Shimahara
19. Reforms to Teacher Education in Indonesia: Does More Mean Better? - H. Dean Nielsen
20. Education, Teacher Training and the Prospects for Recovery in Cambodia - Stephen J. Duggan
