Author: Ake Daun
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: mentality, swedish
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1996-02-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0271015020
ISBN-13: 9780271015026

This text examines Swedish culture and mentality and draws upon statistics gathered over more than a decade of research. The author describes a range of factors influencing Swedish character, including population composition, rural background, and even climate.

Author: Holger Daun
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: comparison, grassroots, responses, international, governance, decentralization, context, globalizing, school
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2007-01-08
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 1402046995
ISBN-13: 9781402046995

Decentralization has become a globalized policy: a large number of countries around the world have formulated this policy and many also have implemented it. The policies and the changes at the national level have been researched and thoroughly described and analyzed. What has taken place and is taking place at the grassroots level has not received attention until recently. The book makes an overview of the world wide economic, political, cultural and educational changes since the beginning of the 1980’s and presents the new type of educational governance. It describes the processes of glob