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This unique handbook offers an analytical review of the education systems of all European countries, following common analytical guidelines, and highlighting the paradox that education simultaneously pursues a universal value as well as a national character. Coverage includes international student performance studies, and a comparison of education dynamics in Eastern "new Europe" with "older" western EU members. The book provides a differentiated analytical data base, and offers suggestions for further research.
On cover: Learning and living democracy
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The World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) was established in 1970 as an umbrella body which brought together five national and regional comparative education societies. Over the decades it greatly expanded, and now embraces three dozen societies. This book presents histories of the WCCES and its member societies. It shows ways in which the field has changed over the decades, and the forces which have shaped it in different parts of the world.
Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, they have been produced, disseminated and used in huge numbers in many regions of the world, in particular in Europe. Remarkably, similar texts appeared across the continent, spanning confessional traditions that were in other respects highly divergent. In different places, and across the whole period, different denominations used not only similar pedagogical and religious strategies, but also shared the same formats and iconography. This volume, edited by scholars from Finland, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, is the result of a collaborative transnational and interdisciplinary effort including education, language teaching, children’s literature, book history, and religious studies. With contributions on seventeen European countries and regions, it sheds new light on a fascinating but largely neglected part of European cultural heritage, and, by establishing a comprehensive and authoritative summary of the field, offers fresh impetus for further transnational research.
Da sich das Steuerungsinstrument "Schulinspektion" in Deutschland derzeit noch in der Entwicklung befindet, gibt es hierzulande kaum empirische Befunde zur Wirksamkeit der Schulinspektion. Dies gilt insbesondere für die Fragen nach den Erfolgsbedingungen und Risikofaktoren der Schulinspektion, ihren Wirkungen und Nebenwirkungen auf die Schule, Lehrerschaft und Schülerschaft sowie für die Rollengestaltung/-rekonstruktion der verschiedenen Akteursgruppen im Evaluationsprozess (z.B. Schulinspektor/-in und Schulaufsicht). Das Ziel dieser international vergleichenden Studie besteht darin, einen Einblick in den internationalen Diskussionsstand zur Schulinspektion im Kontext schulischer Rechensc...