Books in the Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education Series series

Explores interrelated themes such as: rethinking civic education in light of the diversity of US society, re-examining these notions in an increasingly interconnected global context, and re-considering the ways that civic education is researched.

The purpose of inclusion policy is to prevent the marginalization of people who experience unfavourable circumstances in life. This volume examines how various inclusion policies have been implemented in different schools and school districts in North America and in a range of European countries.

This volume of papers brings together the work of some of the leading researchers in the field of child development and early education to examine problems from the perspective of psychological theory and research.

Deals with the meaning of quality in the context of adult basic education. This book includes contributors from the realms of both policy and practice; and covers both the major instructional areas - reading, writing, and mathematics - as well as larger issues of literacy, learning, and adulthood. It is for scholars, students and professionals.

This work explores contemporary issues of ethnic, cultural, and national identities and their influence on the social construction of identity, from the perspectives of seven nations: China; Israel; Japan; South Africa; Ukraine; Wales; and the USA.

Brings together the work of leading researchers in the field of child development and early education to examine current problems from the perspective of psychological theory and research.

This collection of papers from the 1997 Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education provides a "status report" on what inclusive education has achieved and what it may achieve in the future, including legal, philosophical, and practical perspectives.