This book describes the initial and continuing professional development of the various teachers and trainers involved in initial vocational training for youth in Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom. The book contains separate, but similarly formatted, sections for each country. The following topics are discussed in all four country…

What would you expect the differences to be between Japan and England in how pupils learn history in the post-14 phase? Perhaps your guess would be: Japanese school students learn a lot of historical facts and focus upon their own identity and English school students talk a lot more in lessons and are more concerned with justifying opinions using…

Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction of the 1908 report. Chapter I is on current topics and discusses education relations, including professor, teacher and student exchanges. International congresses are discussed, including the first international congress of mothers, parents' national education union, universal…