This Handbook provides windows into worldwide research endeavors, including countries not
usually widely known in international education studies. The goal of this compendium is to foster
the understanding of research and education from different national and cultural perspectives,
and to support the exchange of ideas and people who conduct research and development activities.
From these varied individual and collaborative research projects we can infer directions for
our own research agenda and for policy development.
The resulting chapters represent a respectable cross-section of international research efforts. The
total is representative of the variety of research techniques. Additionally, there are more women
than men contributors, with sufficient representation from Muslim, Asian and developing country
contributors.
These seventeen chapters are an indication of what is occurring in the global educational marketplace.
They represent a sound and current balance of international studies in education that
can be used as models for development elsewhere. Reading them can motivate researchers
everywhere to maintain a high level of scholarship that will benefit international and comparative studies and the academic profession.