Cross-national analyses of university curricula are rare, particularly with a focus on internationalization, commonly studied as impacting higher education through the mobility of people, programs, and campuses. By contrast, we argue that university knowledge shapes globalization by producing various sociopolitical conceptions beyond the…

The purpose of this study was to explore undergraduate Chinese international students' perceptions about their classroom experiences in the United States institutions of higher education. Double consciousness, introduced by W.E.B. Du Bois, was used as the theoretical framework for this study. After analyzing the 15 interviews to Chinese…

University graduates in the Middle East and the United States of America are disillusioned with their higher education degrees. Youth expect to be well employed upon graduation and to improve their social status. Employment has been guaranteed from the earliest university certificates granted in Middle Eastern yeshivas, Houses of Learning, and…

The purpose of the present research was to study gender inequality in British and German universities. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with female academics in each country (UK, N = 40; Germany, N = 47). A generational difference of attitude was perceived in academe, with the younger generation clearly more strategic in career…

This paper explores ways in which gendered approaches have limited women's experience of higher education. Using a historical lens with primary examples from the United States and Britain, it demonstrates how beliefs about women over time led to three expectations about their educational participation: initially, that women were not interested in…

This research studied the evolution in the numbers of female students in France and Germany over a hundred years or so, compared them, and tried to interpret them in a manner valid for each country. (Author/RK)

Among the topics for which West German youth feel particular concern are the destruction of the natural environment and personal relations, war, high military expenditures, poverty in developing countries, unemployment, problems of minorities, and the deterioration of educational opportunities. Remedies are suggested. (RM)

Changes in university history curricula were studied through examination of course titles and abstracts from 335 university catalogs representing 89 countries, 1895-1964. Findings demonstrate that decreasing curricular emphases on Western civilization, metropolitan centers, and nation-states and increasing attention to subnational and…

Similarities between the status of academic women in West Berlin and the U.S. are discussed. Consideration is given to university structure, roles having status and prestige, retrenchment in hiring, discriminatory attitudes, aspiration, and administrative opportunities. (LBH)

This report describes two research projects which were designed to evaluate social training in Swedish schools. Major goals of the first project were to construct and use measuring methods to determine social development of students at the elementary and junior high school levels. Major goals of the second project were to study the characteristic…

The aim of this report is to identify and explain the relevant experiences that are being undertaken in some Southern European schools to prepare young people for living in a democracy. To prepare the report, the authors visited schools in five countries: Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, and Spain. They also obtained information from ad hoc reports…

A study of upper-middle-class college students in England who responded with "resistance" to their schooling showed that the students' challenges do not constitute effective resistances to prevailing patterns of class or gender relations, i.e., their challenges are not transformative. (RM)

The impact of education on the lives of Indian women who attended Kinnaird College in British India is examined. The lives of 468 of the 1,544 women listed in the admissions register from 1913 to 1947, or about a 30 percent non-random sample, are the basis of the study. Alumnae records were examined, and personal interviews were conducted with…

This volume of essays enables readers to see utility in the practice of social mapping as it opens traditional cartographic representation to multiple perspectives and the play of difference. This book argues that social mapping is useful in constructing more comprehensive and reasonably accurate representations of social and cultural phenomena.…

The annotated bibliography lists books, papers, and articles which treat education in Poland. Items cited were published from March to May 1973. Materials are arranged by author within the following categories: (1) history of education; (2) laws and legislation; (3) general information on education; (4) social and educational sciences; (5)…