edited by Donald K. Sharpes ; foreword by Eva Baker
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Charlotte, NC :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Information Age Pub.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xix, 284 p. ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references
CONTENTS NOTE
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Foreword / Eva L. Baker -- Introduction / Donald K. Sharpes -- Developing cross-cultural instruments for cross-national studies / James Reed Campbell -- Current trends and dilemmas in cross-cultural research / Kirsi Tirri and James Reed Campbell -- Effective schools in Arab educational systems: a multi-level approach using TIMSS 2003 data / Oliver Neuschmidt ... [et al.] -- Internationalizing the training of K-12 teachers findings from research on undergraduate teacher education programs / Ann Schneider -- Schooling of young adolescents in Lebanon / Karma El Hassan -- Cognitive abilities of United Arab Emirates female education students / Donald K. Sharpes -- Visions and challenges for teacher education in Eritrea: a personal account / Kirsten Borberg -- Education-occupation mismatch and the effect on wages of Egyptian workers / Fatma El-Hamidi -- Teacher attitudes toward Muslim student integration into civil society / Donald K. Sharpes ... [et al.] -- Partnership between a faculty and schools for encouraging the teacher as researcher: a case study from Slovenia / Majda Cenic -- International cooperation for educational innovations in Belarus / Iouri Zagoumennov -- Danish teacher attitudes towards national student testing: a comparison between NCLB and Danish national testing standards / Lotte Rahbek Schou -- Education studies in Spain: insights, issues, and failures / Juana M. Sancho and Fernando Hernández -- The current state of affairs in Japanese education: schooling in flux / Julia Christmas Nishibata -- Phoenix and dragon: examining parental expectations of only child girls and only child boys in urban China / Yandong Liang, Yukari Okamoto, and Mary E. Brenner -- A brief history of federal international initiatives / Donald K. Sharpes -- Adolescent self-concept among Chinese, Kazahks, and Americans / Donald K. Sharpes