BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

The new, second edition of the graduate-level text, Comparative Education: Exploring Issues in International Context, authored by Patricia K. Kubow (Bowling Green State University) and Paul R. Fossum (University of Michigan-Dearborn) is available from
publisher Prentice Hall. Readers are invited to consider educational issues at home and abroad while developing global perspectives and skills of comparative inquiry. The book, which has a 2007 copyright, includes a new chapter on globalization and implications for education, as well as side-by-side comparisons which juxtapose demographic, economic,
sociopolitical, and geophysical attributes of the featured countries. The book begins with a discussion of comparative education and theories that have shaped the field. Next,
analytic frameworks are applied in the exploration of several relevant issues impacting education worldwide: purposes of schooling (Hong Kong and Israel), educational access and opportunity (South Africa and Brazil), educational accountability and authority (Germany and England), and teacher professionalism (Japan and United States). See www.prenhall.com for further details.