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  1. Cross-cultural approaches to adoption
    Published: (c)2004
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

    This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the assumptions that lie beneath western childcare policy more

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    This edited collection looks at diverse examples of child-rearing and adoption practices from across the globe, revealing some of the assumptions that lie beneath western childcare policy

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0203643704; 9780203643709
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Subjects: Adoption; Kinship; Families; Adoption; Parenté; Famille; Adoption; Kinship; Families; Families; Kinship; Adoption; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Adoption & Fostering; Adoption; Families; Kinship; Adoptie; Interculturele vergelijking; Cross-cultural studies
    Scope: Online Ressource (1 volume)
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    "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Glossary of anthropological terms; Kinship abbreviations and symbols; INTRODUCTION; Adoption and the circulation of children: a comparative perspective; Adopting a native child: an anthropologist's personal involvement in the field; Africa; 'The real parents are the foster parents': social parenthood among the Baatombu in Northern Benin; Fosterage and the politics of marriage and kinship in East Cameroon; Adoption practices among the pastoral Maasai of East Africa: enacting fertility; Asia and Oceania.

  2. Comparing learning outcomes
    international assessments and education policy
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  RoutledgeFalmer, London

    Written by researchers from eleven different countries, these accounts offer clear guidance on conducting different forms of international comparative research and valuable suggestions for new directions in such research more

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    Written by researchers from eleven different countries, these accounts offer clear guidance on conducting different forms of international comparative research and valuable suggestions for new directions in such research

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0203403568; 9780203403563
    Subjects: Educational evaluation; Academic achievement; Educational indicators; Education and state; Educational evaluation; Educational indicators; Education and state; Academic achievement; Educational evaluation; Academic achievement; Educational indicators; Education and state; Educational evaluation; Academic achievement ; Evaluation; Educational indicators; Education and state; Academic achievement ; Evaluation; Education and state; Educational evaluation; Educational indicators; Vergelijkende onderwijskunde; Studieresultaten; Vaardigheden; Competentie (psychologie); Interculturele vergelijking; EDUCATION ; Finance; Cross-cultural studies
    Scope: Online Ressource (vi, 226 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references. - Print version record

    Toward education improvement : the future of international assessment / Eugene Owen ... [et al.]From comprehension to literacy : thirty years of reading assessment / Dominique Lafontaine -- The assessment of adult literacy : history and prospects / T. Scott Murray -- Cross-curricular competencies : development in a new area of education outcome indicators / Jules L. Peschar -- Assessment of cross-curricular problem-solving competencies / Eckhard Klieme -- Reflections on the use of indicators in policy and practice / Friedrich Plank and Douglas Hodgkinson -- Gender differences in achievement : overview and examples of data use in five countries / compiled by Maria Stephens with contributions from Konrad Krainer ... [et al.] -- Considerations in comparing results from different countries, subjects, and grade levels / Kimmo Leimu -- Moving beyond bivariate indicators : the role of multilevel modelling in international comparisons / Roel J. Bosker and Tom A.B. Snijders -- On the methods used for international assessments of educational competencies / Fabrice Murat and Thierry Rocher.