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

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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?