Palgrave Macmillan is pleased to announce the launching of a new book series

Palgrave Macmillan is pleased to announce the launching of a new book series, Comparative and Development Education, with Professors John N. Hawkins (UCLA) and W. James Jacob (University of Pittsburgh). This series focuses on the complementary areas of comparative, international and development education. Books emphasize a number of topics ranging from key international education issues, trends, and reforms to examinations of national education systems, social theories, and development education initiatives. Local, national, regional, and global volumes (single authored and edited collections) constitute the breadth of the series and offer potential contributors a great deal of latitude based on interests and cutting edge research. The series is supported by a strong network of international scholars and development professionals who serve on the Comparative and Development Education Review Board and participate in the selection and review process for manuscript development.

Series editors:

John N. Hawkins is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Social Science and Comparative Education Division of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also Director of the Center for International and Development Studies, an organized research center focusing on global trends in higher education. He served for 12 years as UCLA’s Dean of International Studies. He is an author of several books and research articles on education and development in Asia. He has conducted research throughout Asia since 1966 when he first visited the People’s Republic of China.

W. James Jacob is Acting Director of the Institute for International Studies in Education at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Education, and is the former Assistant Director of the Center for International and Development Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on program design, implementation, and evaluation; HIV/AIDS multisectoral capacity building and prevention; social change and development; and higher education organizational analysis in developing countries with geographic emphases in Africa, East Asia, and the Pacific Islands.

 Palgrave Macmillan expects to publish 4-5 titles per year in this series.

We invite contact from authors and editors about their current projects. For new proposals, contact:

Series Editor:

W. James Jacob

Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE)

School of Education

University of Pittsburgh

5905 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA

Tel: (412) 648-7216

wjacob@pitt.edu

Or

Palgrave Macmillan Editor:

Julia Cohen

Education Editor

Palgrave Macmillan

175 Fifth Avenue, Room 200

New York, NY 10010

Tel: (646) 307-5010

Julia.Cohen@palgrave-usa.com