World Yearbook of Education 2012
The phenomenon of "travelling reforms" has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny. The fact that the same set of educational reforms is transferred from one country to another made scholars wonder...
World Yearbook of Education 2012
The phenomenon of "travelling reforms" has become an object of great professional interest and intensive academic scrutiny. The fact that the same set of educational reforms is transferred from one country to another made scholars wonder...
Understanding PISA's Attractiveness
Understanding PISA's Attractiveness examines how policy makers and the media interpret the results of PISA league-leaders, losers, and slippers in ways that suit their own reform agendas. As a result, a myriad of explanations exist as to why an ed...
Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending
Will the 'best practices' of schools in Scotland work in South Africa? Are PTA's, a mainstay of American school governance, as valuable in European countries? Who decides and why? The globalization of educational policy has become a popular, if no...
World Yearbook of Education 2016
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education series examines the global education industry both in OECD* countries as well as developing countries, and presents the works of scholars based in different parts of the word who have significa...
World Yearbook of Education 2016
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education series examines the global education industry both in OECD* countries as well as developing countries, and presents the works of scholars based in different parts of the word who have significa...
Educational Import
This book addresses students, practitioners and scholars in educational policy studies. The authors use Mongolia as a case to illustrate how global influences shape domestic developments in education, and how imported education reforms are locally...
Researching the Global Education Industry
This book examines how the Global Education Industry (GEI) has brokered, funded, and implemented new conceptualizations of 'good' education. With a focus on new private providers and policy actors in education, the authors of the book analyze the ...
Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education
Marketization and privatization in compulsory education have spread around the globe. School choice is seen by many to be the panacea to develop the quality of schools and improve school systems worldwide. Additionally in many countries several ty...
World Yearbook of Education 2019
Digital methodologies, new forms of data visualization and computer-based learning and assessment are creating new challenges as well as opportunities for scholars in educational research. The World Yearbook of Education 2019 explores this highly ...
Privatization of Education
Education privatization is a global phenomenon that crystallizes in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countri...
A small book about nothing : and all there is within
The words in this book all relate to different aspects of being human in the vast consciousness of nothing and the vibration of the reflection of that which cannot be described. It is not a book to be read only by ones mind, but to be explored wit...
Gender Mainstreaming in Finance
Gender mainstreaming is the current international approach to promoting equality between women and men. It is based on the recognition that gender inequality operates at all levels and in all sectors of society, and thus needs to be addressed in t...
Den Svarta Enhörningen
Mallik skriver medryckande lätt och stilsäkert. /.../ Förutom den fenomenala behandlingen av fantasygenren är boken också en drabbande skildring av förtrolig och uppriktig vänskap. Helhetsbetyg 5 - BTJ, Linda BoodhAllt var tyst och stilla. Men det betydde inte att gläntan var tom. I mitten stod ett djur. Kroppen var kolsvart och glänsande i månskenet. Den långa manen var tovig och full av löv och pinnar. Flanken var bred och djuret var större än någon häst jag nånsin sett, med muskulös hals och stadiga hovar. Men det var ingen häst. Något stort rör sig i skogarna kring förorten där Tilly bor. Är det verkligen en aggressiv älg, som det står i tidningen? Tilly bryr sig egentligen inte, hon har alltid tyckt att skogen är läskig och går ändå aldrig dit. Men så möter hon Iselin. Hemlighetsfulla Iselin som inte är som de andra i klassen, som vet allt om träd och djur. Tillsammans börjar de utforska skogen och det dröjer inte länge innan de förstår att det inte är en älg, utan något helt annat ...Den svarta enhörningen är en fantasyberättelse om hemliga världar och magiska portaler, om slumrande förmågor som vaknar till liv och om djup vänskap och stort mod.
The Destiny of Minou Moonshine
The Destiny of Minou Moonshine
The Destiny of Minou Moonshine
The Destiny of Minou Moonshine
River Sutra
Gita Mehta's captivating and enchanting novel tells the story of a retired beurocrat who has escaped the world to spend his twilight years running a guest-house on the banks of the country's holiest river, the Narmada. But he has chosen the wrong ...
Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was to be found in the East. An Indian writer who has also lived in England and the United States, Gita Mehta was ideally placed to observe the spectacle of European and American 'pilgrims' interacting with their hosts. When she finally recorded her razor sharp observations in Karma Cola, the book became an instant classic for describing, in merciless detail, what happens when the traditions of an ancient and longlived society are turned into commodities and sold to those who don't understand them. In the dazzling prose that has become her trademark, Mehta skewers the entire Spectrum of seekers: The Beatles, homeless students, Hollywood rich kids in detox, British guilt-trippers, and more. In doing so, she also reveals the devastating byproducts that the Westerners brought to the villages of rural
Enchantée
A compellingly beautiful tale of magic, intrigue and deception, set against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Paris on the cusp of revolution. Paris in 1789 is a labyrinth of twisted streets, filled with beggars, thieves, revolutionaries - and ma...