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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 integration in 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.
List of contents
Preface.- Introduction (Wolfgang Hörner / Hans Döbert).- Albania (Michael Schmidt-Neke).- Andorra (Wendelin Sroka).- Armenia (Ingo-Eric Schmidt-Braul/Botho von Kopp).- Austria (Ferdinand Eder / Franz Kroath / Josef Thonhauser).- Azerbaijan (Rada Spasic ).- Belarus (Wendelin Sroka).- Belgium (Christiane Brusselmann-Dehairs / Martin Valcke).- Bosnia-Herzegovina (Katarina Batarilo / Volker Lenhart).- Bulgaria (Nikolay Popov).- Czech Republic (Jan Prucha).- Croatia (Marko Palekcic / Nenad Zekanovic ).- Cyprus (Petros Pashiardis).- Denmark (Tobias Werler / Tine Bering Keiding).- Estonia (Väino Rajangu).- Faroe Islands (Wendelin Sroka).- Finland (Pertti Kansanen / Matti Meri).- France (Wolfgang Hörner).- Georgia (Ingo-Eric Schmidt-Braul / Botho von Kopp).- Germany (Hans Döbert).- Greece (Panos Xochellis / Anastasia Kesidou).- Hungary (Tamás Hives / Tamás Kozma / Imre Radacsi / Magdolna Rébay).- Iceland (Thorarinn Stefansson / Ragnheidur Karlsdottir).- Ireland (Maureen Killeavy).- Italy (Günter Brinkmann / Wolfgang Hörner).- Kosovo (Dascha Kuhn / Lulzim Dragidella).- Latvia (Irena Zogla / Rudite Andersone / Emilija Cernova).- Liechtenstein (Botho von Kopp).- Lithuania (Elvyra Giedraitiene / Dalia Kiliuviene / Stefan Brauckmann).- Luxembourg (Siggy Koenig).- Malta (Christopher Bezzina / Grace Grima).- Macedonia (Wolf Oschlies).- Moldova (Natalia Odobescu).- Monaco (Wendelin Sroka).- Montenegro (Claudia Strümpfel).- Netherlands (Bob van de Ven).- Norway (Tobias Werler / Kirsten Sivesind).- Poland (Wolfgang Hörner / Inetta Nowosad).- Portugal (Jesus Maria Sousa / Carlos Nogueira Fino).- Romania (Laura Dumbraveanu).- Russian Federation (Gerlind Schmidt).- San Marino (Wendelin Sroka).- Serbia (Vera Spasenovic / Emina Hebib / Aleksandra Petrovic ).- Slovak Republic (Stefan Svec / Mária Hrabinská).- Slovenia (Joze Mlakar).- Spain (María Jesús Martínez Usarralde).- Sweden (Tobias Werler / Silwa Claesson).- Switzerland (Lucien Criblez).- Turkey (YaseminKarakasog lu).- Ukraine (Wolfgang Hellwig / Janna Lipenkowa).- United Kingdom (Colin Brock / Nafsika Alexiadou).- Education in Europe: The Way Ahead (Wolfgang Mitter).- Education Systems of Europe: Statistical profile.- Authors
About the author
Dr. Botho von Kopp ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Deutschen Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung in Frankfurt am Main. Nach einem ersten Studium der Slawistik und Linguistik hat er in Erziehungswissenschaft pro-moviert und arbeitet seit Jahren im Bereich der vergleichenden Bildungsforschung.
