In Serbia, teachers and policy makers express different and sometimes competing visions of education. Teachers express their desire to "awaken" students by using progressive pedagogies, while European Union and World Bank reformers appropriate progressive education in the service of neoliberal goals. The research findings presented here indicate…

Since the 1979 revolution, Iranian women have been expected to fulfill the traditional role of women under Islamic law while contributing to the modern needs of their country. Iranian women have access to a wide range of (gender-segregated) educational opportunities and are drawing on their relatively high levels of educational attainment to…

Article investigated Nuffield curriculum reforms, their effect on science learning and the overall success of these reforms. (Author/RK)

Article exemplified the usefulness of comparisons of academic achievement between countries with the focus on science education. (Author/RK)

Author focuses on the relationship between comparative education and its link to the foundations of education. (RK)

Author makes the point that there is a need for a comparative perspective with which to develop and refine effective prescriptions in education. He suggests that comparative education can provide for this need. (Author/RK)

Article addresses the question of whether comparative and international education in its research and teaching roles is effectively illuminating the universals and differentials in schooling as it develops and changes all over the world. (Author/RK)

This article attempted to achieve some balanced appreciation of the interaction between local and central authorities and between African and European initiatives in the evolution of African education by examining the development of two mission sponsored educational institutions in Kenya from about 1875 to 1920. (Author/RK)

Following a brief history of bilingual education (BE), the author makes a meta-evaluation assessment of BE research, arguing that the findings are not so contradictory if one examines the theoretical frameworks chosen by the researchers. The equilibrium and conflict paradigms and the structural-functional theory are considered. (SJL)

The educational reform legislated and initiated in Greece in 1975-77 was extensive. The author presents the policies that developed from that reform and the objectives that were based on those policies. (Author/RK)

The author examines the process and political dynamics of educational reform in greece by focusing on the Education Act of 1976 (Law 309), "On the Organization and Administration of General Education." The main concern is the reform proposals pertaining to the organization, the curriculum, and the general orientation of the school system.…

The author attempts to provide a cultural perspective of the 1976-77 educational reform in Greece by focusing on the values, implicit or explicit, in the reform measures. (Author/RK)

The broad scope of China's educational policy toward its national minorities is examined against the background of its national minority policy in general. Along with providing comparative data on the education of national minorities, this study highlights the dynamic and changing nature of the practices based on this policy. (Author/RK)

Presents an interpretative historical sketch of the general development of comparative education on the occasion of the completion of twenty years of existence by the Comparative and International Education Society. (Author/RK)

Discusses nonformal education and social change in Latin America. Argues that nonformal education there has not produced a significant amount of social change because of the narrow psychological approach characteristic of most programs. (Author/RK)