CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Volume 8 in the International Perspectives on Education and Society
series published by Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, UK

“EDUCATION FOR ALL: GLOBAL PROMISES, NATIONAL CHALLENGES”

Edited by
David P. Baker (Pennsylvania State University)
Alexander W. Wiseman (The University of Tulsa)

Since the World Conference on Education for All (EFA) in Jomtien,
Thailand in 1990, the push for modern mass schooling has become a
primary focus of national education policymakers and researchers around
the world. The EFA declaration that grew out of this conference served
as a culmination of a century-long movement to transform existing
national educational systems from elite or otherwise limited
organizations into the most comprehensive mass system of schooling ever
devised.

Comparative education researchers have been studying both the promises
and the challenges surrounding EFA for the past two decades, but in
comparative education research literature there is still neither
consensus on the impact that EFA has nor clearly identified global
trends in either EFA policymaking or policy implementation. It seems
that for every promise that EFA brings, there is an accompanying
challenge. Now, 25 years after EFA's genesis, it is this struggle
between the global promises and the national challenges that this volume
seeks to identify and explain.

We are soliciting chapter proposals or manuscripts from scholars in the
field of international and comparative education who could contribute
critical syntheses of EFA policymaking or policy implementation,
original comparative education research on the impact that EFA has had
in specific nations or across clusters of nations, or a combination of
the two. The intent is to have a combination of state-of-the-field
reviews, new empirical scholarship, and critical discussions of major
topics around the volume's theme. All proposals/manuscripts are
peer-reviewed.

Please contact us with chapter proposals and/or manuscripts by November
30, 2005:

Email: alex-wiseman@utulsa.edu
Email: dpb4@psu.edu