Handbook on international studies in education / edited by Donald K. Sharpes ; foreword by Eva Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharpes, Donald K.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Research--Cross-cultural studies--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Education.

Education--Cross-cultural studies--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Education--Cross-cultural studies.

Education--Research.

Cross-cultural studies.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xix, 284 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Pub., [2010]

Contents:

Foreword / Eva L. Baker

Introduction / Donald K. Sharpes

Developing cross-cultural instruments for cross-national studies / James Reed Campbell

Current trends and dilemmas in cross-cultural research / Kirsi Tirri and James Reed Campbell

Effective schools in Arab educational systems: a multi-level approach using TIMSS 2003 data / Oliver Neuschmidt ... [et al.]

Internationalizing the training of K-12 teachers findings from research on undergraduate teacher education programs / Ann Schneider

Schooling of young adolescents in Lebanon / Karma El Hassan

Cognitive abilities of United Arab Emirates female education students / Donald K. Sharpes

Visions and challenges for teacher education in Eritrea: a personal account / Kirsten Borberg

Education-occupation mismatch and the effect on wages of Egyptian workers / Fatma El-Hamidi

Teacher attitudes toward Muslim student integration into civil society / Donald K. Sharpes ... [et al.]

Partnership between a faculty and schools for encouraging the teacher as researcher: a case study from Slovenia / Majda Cenic

International cooperation for educational innovations in Belarus / Iouri Zagoumennov

Danish teacher attitudes towards national student testing: a comparison between NCLB and Danish national testing standards / Lotte Rahbek Schou

Education studies in Spain: insights, issues, and failures / Juana M. Sancho and Fernando Hernández

The current state of affairs in Japanese education: schooling in flux / Julia Christmas Nishibata

Phoenix and dragon: examining parental expectations of only child girls and only child boys in urban China / Yandong Liang, Yukari Okamoto, and Mary E. Brenner

A brief history of federal international initiatives / Donald K. Sharpes

Adolescent self-concept among Chinese, Kazahks, and Americans / Donald K. Sharpes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1607523833

9781607523840

1607523841

9781607523857

160752385X

OCLC:

470359183

Publisher Number:

99945743093