ABSTRACT

With contributions from international authors, this text demonstrates that education systems, and what it is to be educated, are in transition and that societies and economies are changing dramatically. The contributors explore expanding university systems, financial responsibilities and curricula.

chapter |14 pages

Education in times of transition

Eastern Europe with particular reference to the Baltic states

chapter |18 pages

Bolivia

chapter |10 pages

Brazil

An incomplete transition

chapter |13 pages

Education in transition

Canada

chapter |13 pages

Greece

The lack of modernity and educational transitions

chapter |11 pages

Iran

chapter |16 pages

Competitive contractualism

A new social settlement in New Zealand education 1

chapter |10 pages

Education in transition

Slovenia

chapter |11 pages

South Korea

chapter |13 pages

Change as normality

education in Ukraine with special reference to the Crimea

chapter |18 pages

Crisis and reform in US education

A Nation at Risk, 1983 and all that