Education in Europe

by Brock, Colin; Corner, Trevor; Ivanenko, Nadiya

• ISBN13: 9781472528087
• ISBN10: 1472528085
• Format: Display
• Copyright: 2015-09-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Education in Europe is a set of four comprehensive critical reference guides to education in the region:

Education in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, edited by Nadiya Ivanenko
Education in the European Union: Pre-2003 Member States, edited by Trevor Corner
Education in the European Union: Post-2003 Member States, edited by Trevor Corner
Education in the United Kingdom, edited by Colin Brock

Each volume includes a substantial editorial introduction, followed by individual country chapters written by indigenous authors who are recognised experts in their field, allowing for special local factors to emerge and to be explained with authority and cultural understanding. Combining up to date portraits and analysis of distinctive features and guidance on wider resources, including connections to online dynamic data sources, these handbooks will be an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels.

Author Biography

Colin Brock is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.

Trevor Corner is Reader in Education and Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Bedfordshire, UK.

Nadiya Ivanenko is Associate Professor of Comparative Linguistics and Deputy Dean in the Department of Foreign Languages at Kirovograd State Pedagogical University, Ukraine.

Table of Contents

The four volumes cover:

Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom and Ukraine.