Surveys of Polish teachers who volunteered to introduce civic education about democracy, along with parents, and students aged 13-14 examined individual-level support for democracy and a market economy in relation to three psychological dimensions widely thought to affect political and economic attitudes: valuing of self-direction, authoritarian…

Survey of Israeli parent-child pairs revealed portraits of moderate parents and radical children, but follow-up of family conversation while watching and discussing television news suggested harmony and unity in Israeli living rooms. Reconceptualization of the theoretical canon of political socialization analyzes the conversation as a moment of…

In response to a changing world and changing academic fields, a "to do" list for members of the Comparative and International Education Society focuses on creating alliances that are policy advocates for education, building bridges from past to present to future and between changing populations and new educational needs, and confessing the "sins"…

From 1923 to 1938, the International Institute of Teachers College, Columbia University, actively exported American democratic education abroad via direct faculty participation in the reform of foreign educational systems and the professional training of foreign students and educational leaders. The institute contributed to the development of…

Examines the coincident nature of recent educational reforms (multiculturalism, skills training, curricular redesign, school choice) in Canada and four other Anglophone democracies as related to two forms of globalization: economic globalization and global rationalization and standardization. Concludes that globalization is transforming education…

Describes attempts to establish at least 20 private universities in Australia between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, of which only 4 remain viable. Discusses five categories of national higher-education environments. Suggests that most proposed private universities were undermined by their overtly commercial character and the strength and…

China's private schools, colleges, and technical institutes overwhelmingly are autonomous entrepreneurial institutions that respond to unmet educational demands by selling marketable skills for a profit. Although comprising less than 4% of the country's schools, they demonstrate the market's growing strength in China's socialist society: adoption…

Analyzes how a flourishing market economy has affected China's social policy and educational development, focusing on "marketization" and "privatization" in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province. The Delta's expansion of multiple financial sources for education and huge demand for professional and technical education have stimulated…

Defines and broadly traces the history of educational planning in both developing and industrialized capitalist nations. Discusses general approaches to educational planning (technical versus political planning, top-down versus bottom-up planning, and various theoretical bases); the contingency view of planning; case examples of planned,…

Case study of educational planning in Trinidad and Tobago focuses on "Report of the National Task Force on Education" (1994), known locally as the White Paper on Education or Keller Report. Examines how the White Paper captures current theory and practice in educational planning, its chances of successful implementation, and role of the state and…

Criticizes a previous article's assumptions that globalization is a policy option that may be chosen or rejected by professionals, that acceptance of globalization undermines possibilities for improving existing inequities and that comparative education professionals are completely qualified to establish educational policy for the poor and…

Selective bibliography in comparative and international education includes 621 citations from 75 journals published from late 1995 to early 1997. Topical categories are adult, distance, vocational, literacy, and popular education; children's rights; curriculum and instruction; educational planning, development, and reform; gender, ethnicity, and…

The Morocco Literacy Survey, which directly assessed various individual competencies, and a self-report were completed by 8,050 Moroccans in 2,240 households. Analysis of age cohorts revealed that Morocco halved illiteracy in the past three decades, but rural-urban and gender disparities widened. Literacy classification by self-report or…

A review of enrollments, graduates, and costs for Mozambique secondary technical schools and the results of a follow-up employment survey conducted at graduate reunion parties indicate low internal and external efficiency and high unit costs in the technical education system, particularly "basic" technical schools. Three possible types of policy…

Discusses the lack of classification systems as a major deficiency in the field of comparative education. Examines previous typologies of education systems and of forms of intergroup relations. Offers a tentative classification of 135 national education systems based on 15 conventional indicators using factor analysis and cluster analysis.…