Problems and Prospects in European Education

ELIZABETH SHERMAN SWING, Professor Emerita of Education, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, is the Historian of the Comparative and International Education Society.JÜRGEN SCHRIEWER is Professor of Comparative Education and Head of the Comparative Education Centre of Humboldt University, Berlin.FRANCOIS ORIVEL is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Research on the Economics of Education, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France.

• Introduction The Structures of European Education Systems of Public Administration: Patterns of School Legislation and Management by Herman Avenarius and Theo Liket The Teaching Profession in Europe: Historical and Sociological Analysis by Antonio Novoa Educational Studies in Europe by Jurgen Schriewer Systemic Growth and Expansion Equality of Opportunity Policies: Expansion of European School Systems Since the Second World War by Bernd Zymek The Economics of Education: Incentives, Control of Costs, Allocation of Resources by Francois Orivel The Impact of Family Socialization Processes and Educational Strategies on the Adaptation and Academic Success of Students by Marie Duru-Bellat and Agnes Van Zanten Gender Issues in European Education Today by Margaret B. Sutherland European Education in an Area of Global Change The Heritage of Socialism and Perestroika: Transformation Processes in Central and Eastern European Education by Jurgen Wichmann and Val D. Rust Schools, Separatism, and Assimilation: The Education of "Others" in Europe by Elizabeth Sherman Swing Developing the European Dimension in Education: The Roles of the European Union and the Council of Europe by Raymond Ryba Bibliography Index