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Direct linkRotatori, Anthony F., Ed.; Bakken, Jeffrey P., Ed.; Obiakor, Festus E., Ed.; Burkhardt, Sandra, Ed.; Sharma, Umesh, Ed. – Advances in Special Education, 2014
The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of special education from across the globe. The volume includes chapters from major countries such as United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Russia and Japan as well as countries such as Nigeria, Israel and Pakistan. Discussions related to these countries will include information on origins of special…
Descriptors: Special Education, Cultural Differences, Incidence, Educational Legislation
Kojima, Yoko, Ed.; And Others – 1981
The volume is intended to give readers a glimpse of the day-to-day life of disabled people in Japan. Eight brief papers present life experiences of a mentally retarded preschooler, severely disabled children, a child with muscular dystrophy, a young girl with polio living in the community, visually disabled and recovering mentally ill people…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment
Download full textRoss, Patricia O'Connell, Ed. – 1994
The five commissioned papers in this anthology provided part of the research base for the national report, "National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent." In the first paper, "The Performance of High Ability Students in the United States on National and International Tests," Carolyn Callahan describes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Education, Cultural Influences, Educational Change
Bloch, Marianne N., Ed.; Kennedy, Devorah, Ed.; Lightfoot, Theodora, Ed.; Weyenberg, Dar, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
In this collection, the contributors look at the current spread of universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, examining the way these discourses, which purport to describe everyone in a scientific and neutral way, actually create mechanisms through which children are divided and excluded. The contributors to this book…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Young Children, Jews
Peer reviewedGoldring, Ellen B., Ed. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1991
Eight papers discuss the public choice model of education in an international context and the implications of choice for parental involvement in schools. Perspectives/dilemmas in the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Israel are considered. Conflicting views of schools as service organizations and schools as commonwealth organizations are…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy
Michael, Robert J., Ed.; Upton, Graham, Ed. – View Finder, 1993
This monograph presents 14 brief papers on special education in other countries or comparisons between countries. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Legal Foundations of Special Education: A Comparison of the United States Public Law 94-142 and the China Compulsory Education Law" (Hong Bo Wang et al.); "International…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Disabilities, Educational Practices
Habib, Jack, Ed.; Nusberg, Charlotte, Ed. – 1990
This volume contains 19 papers that were presented at a conference addressing critical issues related to employment options for older persons. They are arranged in four sections that cover early retirement policies and their implications; older workers of Asia and the Pacific; the impact of technological change on the employment prospects of older…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Early Retirement, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Opportunities
Seidelin, Susanne, Ed.; Hamilton, Stuart, Ed. – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (NJ1), 2005
The IFLA/FAIFE World Report Series is unique. It is the only source based on a systematic data collection process that provides an overview of how libraries around the world are tackling barriers to freedom of access to information and freedom of expression. This year's edition includes 84 country reports which detail the extent of Internet access…
Descriptors: Freedom, Access to Information, Laws, Federal Legislation
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change
