Education for the 21st Century

The expansion of the European Union in the 21st century will bring with it new tasks in education. Among the predominant ones are issues related to commonalities and diversities found within each nation's own education system. Until now the European states have focused on diversities found within their own national educational systems. The ongoing integration process in Europe will mean transnational perspectives need more attention. Processes of globalisation, economic integration, social mobility, migration and political integration will persist into the next century and produce new forms of commonalities, inside and outside nation states. The relationship of these processes of commonalities and diversities is a major problem and challenge for all education systems not only within Europe, but in the whole world. This volume deals with issues related to this development in seven fields: History and Theory of Education, Ethnicity, Teacher Education, Youth Care and Special Educational Needs, Media Based Education, Woman and Gender Studies, Higher Education. The 43 articles are written by more than 50 authors from 15 European countries Contents Introduction Christoph Wulf Globalisation Antinomies between Communalities and Diversities I. History and Theory of Education Elliot Eisner Cognition and Representation A Way to Pursue the American Dream? Christoph Wulf Historical Anthropology and Educational Studies Laura Bovone Comparing Micro and Macro Ethics Theories What are the Implications for Education? Holger Daun Globalization and the Drive for Competitiveness Some Response Patterns Among National Education Systems in Europe Christiane Montandon The Paradigmatic Function of European Educational Models in the French Discourse Leendert Groenendijk, Saskia Grotenhuis, Bernard Kruithof, Johan Sturm Pillarization and Segmentation in the Dutch School System Peter Tibor Nagy State-Church Relations in a Post-communist Educational System The Case of Hungary Povilas Kuprys Applying Nordic Folk High School Experience in Lithuanian Adult Education Sven Erik Nordenbo Concepts of Freedom in Danish School Legislation Angela Perucca Educating the Young From a European Perspective II. Ethnicity Metin Alkan Ethnicity and Underachievement in the Netherlands A Curricular Analysis Yvonne Leeman Education for the Multi-ethnic Society Gerd Hoff Changes in Research on Multicultural Education in Germany Iris Köpp, Wilfried Lippitz The Discourse of Strangeness and the Way it Causes Helplessness in the Field of Education Mina O'Dowd, Paul Vedder Assyrian Youth in a "Concentration School" in Sweden A Case Study Luca Queirolo Palmas, Francesco Barattini Local Educational Policies and the Schooling of Immigrants A Case Analysis of Genova Schools Karmen Trasberg Integration of Russian-Speaking Students into Estonian Society Zoltán Vastagh Conflicts and Co-operative Pedagogical Strategies in the Context of Multicultural Education III. Teacher Education Fenia Alexopoulou The European Dimension in Initial Teacher Education Curriculum Issues Ken Foster Teacher Training in Europe The Case of Pedagogical Departments in Greece Tatjana Koke The Importance of In-service Teacher Education during the Period of Transition Anunciación Quintero Gallego Problems Regarding the Directorship and Training of School Directors in Spain Barbara Busch Preofessionalization or Deregulation A Case Study of American Teacher Education IV. Youth Care and Special Educational Needs Dinah Richard Mmbaga Eurén Educational Planning for Children with Special Educational Needs in Sub-Sahara Africa Bert van der Linden A 'Home-Spun' Network of Special Care Special Education Beyond the Twentieth Century Alan Hurst Approaching 2000 Progression and Regression in Special Education Rita Habekothé Integrating Early Assistance to Physically Disabled Children of 0-4 Years of Age and their Paratns in the Netherlands Nora Linden The Rationality of Action among Participants in the Field of Special Education Maria Pilar Sarto Martin Special Education and Teacher Training in Spain Carlo Catarsi Traditional and Emerging Roles in Facing Juvenile Delinquency V. Media Based Education Birgitta Qvarsell Studying Media and Information Techniques as Educological Phenomena A New Research Field within Education Arvid Löfberg What Can we Learn about Communication from the Internet? Annematt Collot d'Escury-Koenigs The Educational Potential of Television with Young, Learning Disabled Children Gijsbert Erkens, Jos van der Linden, Gellot Kanselaar Computer Supported Collaborative Learning VI. Woman and Gender Studies Edmée Ollagnier Respecting Women's Learning Process in Adult Education Barbara Merrill "I'm Doing Something for Myself" Mature Women Students in Universities Agnieszka Bron Graduate Women and Men Research Careers at Uppsala University Is there any Difference? Cecilia Almlöv Female and Male Face Strategies A Qualitative Study of a Research Seminar VII. Higher Education Luciana Benincasa Taking Entrance Examinations to Higher Education A Greek Case Study Palmira Jucevicienà New Approaches to the Development of Lithuanian Higher Education in the Context of System Developments in the Western World Luisa Ribolzi Old and New Inequalities in Italian Higher Education Suchada Kornpetpanee Internationalisation of Universities The Causes of Difference: Fields of Study or Social Background?