Tables of contents

Culture, context and difference in comparative education

243 

Retelling herstory: to be a female Bedouin teacher differently

     Anat Pessate-Schubert

247

The challenge of inclusive schooling in Africa:

a Ghanaian case study

     George J Sefa Dei

267 

Parental contributions, school-level finances and decentralization: an analysis of Nicaraguan autonomous school budgets

     Alec Ian Gershberg and Ben Meade

291 

Hopes and challenges for progressive educators in Japan: assessment of the 'progressive turn' in the 2002 educational reform

     Yoko Motani

309 

Cross-national differences in participating in tertiary science, technology, engineering and mathematics education

     Annemarie van Langen and Hetty Dekkers

329 

German and UK higher education and graduate employment: the interface between systemic tradition and graduate views

     Brenda Johnston and Lewis Elton

351 

An institution in search of excellence: lessons learnt

     Hashim, F and Awang, H

Prudent fiscal stewardship: estimating the expected monetary value of an educational program

     Rexeisen, RJ and Sathe, RS

Analysing education production in Malaysia using canonical correlation analysis

     Ismail, NA and Cheng, AG

Information and communication technology and education: analysing the Nigerian national policy for information technology

     Yusuf, MO

The impact of state-funded higher education on neighbourhood and community in the United Arab Emirates

     Nicks-McCaleb, L

Basic trends in the development of professional higher education in Armenia

    Aslanyan, AL

Predictors of self-regulated learning in Malaysian smart schools

     Ng, LY, Kamariah, AB, Samsilah, R, Wong, SL and Puteri, Z

Transforming schools into democratic organisations: the case of the secondary schools management development project in Botswana

     Monyatsi, PP

Adaptation of an emotional intelligence scale for Turkish educators

     Cakan, M and Altun, SA

Janshala in Jharkhand: an experiment with community involvement in education

     Pailwar, VK and Mahajan, V

Vygotsky's philosophy: constructivism and its criticisms examined

     Liu, CH and Matthews, R

The role of environmental education in compulsory education: the case of mathematics textbooks in Greece

     Spiropoulou, D, Roussos, G and Voutirakis, J

Teachers and their international relocation: the effect of self-efficacy and flexibility on adjustment and outcome variables

     von Kirchenheim, C  and Richardson, W