The Education Systems of Europe - Hörner, Wolfgang / Döbert, Hans / Kopp, Botho von / Mitter, Wolfgang (eds.)
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This book is the first to present an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following common guidelines. These conceptual guidelines consider various criteria concerning presumptions as to the quality of a good education system. One of the book's central aims is to explore the paradoxical character of education, i.e. the relationship between universal values and the search for a national identity. It looks at the dynamics of the developments in the 'new' Eastern European countries compared to those of 'older' Western European countries. It then goes on to…mehr

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This book is the first to present an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following common guidelines. These conceptual guidelines consider various criteria concerning presumptions as to the quality of a good education system. One of the book's central aims is to explore the paradoxical character of education, i.e. the relationship between universal values and the search for a national identity. It looks at the dynamics of the developments in the 'new' Eastern European countries compared to those of 'older' Western European countries. It then goes on to discover a common pattern of European education and compares it to that of education systems outside Europe, making it relevant reading to educators around the world. The handbook provides many suggestions for further study.
The paradoxical character of education which includes at the same time a universalistic value as well as a national property makes the special interest of this handbook. The book gives unique in its form an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following common analytical guidelines.These conceptual guidelines try to consider a certain number of criteria concerning presumptions as to the quality of a good education system, as demonstrated by the recent international studies about student performances, such as PISA.The inclusiveness of the geographic field is of special interest for both European and Extra-European readers showing in particular the dynamics of the development in the "new Europe" in its Eastern part compared with the "older" western members of the European Union. Reliable knowledge about the differences of the national systems seems to be necessary in order to understand the common core and the common aim of European integrationin the field of education.The question, if there is a common pattern of European education compared with (modern) education outside Europe, may be of particular interest for readers from other parts of the world: to which extent education in its institutionalised form is really universalistic on the one hand although being based upon indigenous patterns on the other hand. The handbook provides many suggestions to investigate and it gives a differentiated analytical data base.
Autorenporträt
Wolfgang Horner, Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leipzig, Germany / Hans Dobert, Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Berlin, Germany / Botho von Kopp, Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Frankfurt, Germany / Wolfgang Mitter, Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Frankfurt, Germany