Schooling in Western Europe


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Mary Jo Maynes looks to school reform in early modern Europe to show the relevance of early ideas about schooling for understanding contemporary society. She presents the competing perspectives on issues such as the identity and motivations of school reformers, the broad societal changes that made educational reform seem imperative toward the end of the eighteenth century all over the West, the connections between educational change and economic development, the role of schools in the evolution of class relations, the impact of reform on family strategies in the context of early industrialization. The work concludes by assessing historical data on the social impact of school reform and addressing the social meaning of schooling in the past and in the present.




Schooling in Western Europe


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Schooling in Europe is being transformed by a new policy orthodoxy affecting all aspects of the school. Privatization, decentralization, and business focused curriculum reform are all on the rise. The authors consider the impact and conflict of such changes on schooling in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.




Management Education in Historical Perspective


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This book traces the main historical events that have shaped present day management education in a representative sample of European countries and in Japan.







Higher Education Governance and Policy Change in Western Europe


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This book provides a comparative analysis of the impact of 'soft Europeanization' on higher education governance in Western Europe. Using concrete indicators of policy change, it focuses on university reform in Italy, France, Germany and the UK to explore how historical legacies and transnational communication have impacted policy pathways.




From Imitation to Competitive-cooperation


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Recoge: Volumen I: 1. Introduction -- 2. Americanization -- 3. Europeanisation -- Volumen II: 1. Internationalization.




Management, Education and Competitiveness


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Globally two processes are striking about modern management education. Firstly, management education is changing rapidly to meet new challenges from business and governments and to improve competitiveness. Secondly, management education has become one of the fastest growing areas in higher education. Management Education and Competitiveness provides a wide overview, including studies by scholars in nine countries in Europe, Japan and the United States. It examines how countries have developed different national courses in spite of strong influence from the American system of management education. It also examines the links between education and business. This collection of essays will be invaluable to managers and professionals in educational research and business administration.




Management Education in Countries in Transition


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This authoritative collection brings together contributions from well-known international scholars which demonstrate how management education as practised in the U.S. and Western Europe needs to be changed to suit the socio-economic and political systems existing in developing and transitional countries. The papers present a hands-on approach. The geographical area covered is Russia and Eastern Central Europe, China and some other developing countries. The contributors are mostly faculty members in business schools around the world with wide experience in business.