International & Comparative Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Eight European Central Banks (RLE Banking & Finance)

   Organization and Activities

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance

   Uniquely written from inside the banking world this book gives a comprehensive account of the organization and activities of the major central European banks during the 1980s. Each of the individually authored chapters has been written to a common pattern in order to facilitate reference and...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Banking in Europe (RLE Banking & Finance)

   The Single Market

   By Robert Dixon

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance

   This book describes the different banking systems of the twelve European Community countries and examines how they were affected by the Single European market of 1992. Exploring the implications of relevant EC legislation, the book highlights the problems that face financial institutions trying to...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. Banks as Multinationals (RLE Banking & Finance)

   Edited by Geoffrey Jones

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance

   This comparative, international study looks at origins and business strategies of multinational banks. A distinguished team of bankers and academics from the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia survey the evolution of multinational banks over time and suggest a conceptual framework in which...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Gilt-Edged Market (RLE Banking & Finance)

   By Jeremy Wormell

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance

   This book was written at a time when the market for government stocks in London, the gilt-edged market of the title, had undergone a period of rapid innovation in the forms of its instruments – index-linked stocks, variable rate stocks, and other new types – and of methods of issue. This had been...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
5. Education Outcomes and Poverty

   A Reassessment

   Edited by Christopher Colclough

   Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

   What do we know about the outcomes of education in developing countries? Where are the gaps in our knowledge, and why are they important to fill? What are the policy challenges that underlie these knowledge gaps, and how can education best contribute to eliminating the problem of widespread poverty...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
6. Future Directions for Inclusive Teacher Education

   An International Perspective

   Edited by Chris Forlin

   Are teachers ready for inclusion? What is appropriate teacher education? Traditional approaches to inclusive education focused on learners with disabilities. Modern approaches, however, conceptualise inclusion in terms of providing educational equity and equality of access for all students within...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. International Assistance and State-University Relations

   By Jo Bastiaens

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   This book explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education over the past three decades and investigates how these have impacted changing State-university relations. Focusing on the case study of Indonesia, Bastiaens demonstrates how international aid...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation

   Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts

   Edited by Claudio Baraldi, Vittorio Iervese

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood. Childhood studies have recently underlined an alternate way to look at children, starting from the consideration that...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Paying the Professoriate

   A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts

   Edited by Philip Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, Iván Pacheco

   How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. World Yearbook of Education 2005

    Globalization and Nationalism in Education

    Edited by David Coulby, Evie Zambeta

    Series: World Yearbook of Education

    This volume deals with two major and apparently opposing forces within education and society: globalization and nationalism. Globalization is often considered in economic terms - of continued growth of international trade and a concentration of wealth in corporate hands - yet it also encompasses...

    Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge