Books in the World Yearbook of Education series in order

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.

This text examines four key areas of teacher education. These are: theories, models and ideologies of teacher education; the control of teacher education by the state, and the role of schools and HE; cultural perspectives and the education of teachers; and continuities in teacher education.

A real revolution is taking place in the way in which we conceptualise and practice education and learning. This book sets out to explore the immense impact which digital technology is having on education around the world.

Deals with two major and apparently opposing forces within education and society: globalization and nationalism. This book explores the role of the education sector in our globalized knowledge economy, and considers the political implications of this in terms of monopolarity and the cultural consequences of homogenization and Americanization.

Divided into three key themes, this yearbook looks at: globalised policy and research in education; steering education policy in national contexts; global-local politics of education research.

The 2007 edition of this respected international volume considers the challenges facing work related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy and the impact of this on labour markets and individual workers.

This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Thus distinctive geographies of knowledge are being produced, intersected by geometries of power and raising questions about the recognition, production, control and usage of university-produced knowledge in different regions of the world.

Examines higher education in globalised conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. This book highlights four areas: Producing and Reproducing the University; Supplying Knowledge; Demanding Knowledge; and Transnational Academic Flows.

The World Yearbook of Education 2009: Childhood Studies and the Impact of Globalization examines the concept of `childhood¿ and `childhood development and learning¿ from educational, sociological and psychological perspectives. This contributed volume seeks to explicitly provide a series of windows into the construction of childhood around the world, as a means to conceptualizing and more sharply defining the emerging field of global and local childhood studies.

Examines the concept of childhood and childhood development and learning from educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives. This volume provides a series of windows into the construction of childhood around the world, as a means to conceptualizing and more sharply defining the field of global and local childhood studies.

The World Yearbook of Education 2010: Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power opens up discussions about improving the relationship between the Arab World and the West, beyond the divide of most current approaches.

Examines Arab education in a range of contexts - regional, diasporic, and trans-national - to better understand how the field of Arab education is formed through local, regional, geopolitical and global engagements and resonances.

This book brings together contributions from around the world that analyse and reflect on the way curriculum is configuring and reconfiguring that world.

This book brings together contributions from around the world that analyse and reflect on the way curriculum is configuring and reconfiguring that world.