Tables of contents

Special issue on Tibet

Making Tibetans in China: The educational challenges of harmonious multiculturalism

Gerard A Postiglione

1

Accounting for Tibetan university students' and teachers' intellectual styles

Li-fang Zhang, Hong Fu, Ben Jiao

21

Tibetan primary curriculum and its role in nation building

Catriona Bass

39

Girls first! Promoting early education in Tibetan areas of China, a case study

Vilma Seeberg

51

Schooling for knowledge and cultural survival: Tibetan community schools in nomadic herding areas

Ellen Bangsbo

69

School as a site of Tibetan ethnic identity construction in India? Results from a content analysis of textbooks and Delphi study of teachers' perceptions

Mary Ann Maslak

85

Book Reviews

107

Introduction to special issue on teacher identities

Becky Francis, Christine Skelton

1

Identity, wellbeing and effectiveness: The emotional contexts of teaching

Christopher Day, Alison Kington

7

Identity 'issues' and pedagogical silences: Exploring teaching dilemmas in the northern Ontario kindergarten classroom

Victoria Kannen, Sandra Acker

25

'End of term': Teacher identities in a post-work context

Meg Maguire

43

Tradition, culture and identity in the reform of teachers' work in Scotland and England: Some methodological considerations

Ian Menter

57

Being the 'right' kind of male teacher: The disciplining of John

Martin Mills, Malcolm Haase, Emma Charlton

71

Primary teacher commitment and the attractions of teaching

Geoff Troman, Andrea Raggl

85

BOOK REVIEWS

Gabriella Pusztai, Chris Gaine

101

International transfer and comparative education

Michael Crossley

1

Small country, big business? New Zealand as education exporter

Kerstin Martens, Peter Starke

3

Educational borrowing as negotiation: Re-examining the influence of the American black industrial education model on British colonial education in Africa

Shoko Yamada

21

Learner-centred pedagogy in Tibet: International education reform in a local context

Stephen Carney

39

Primary school literacy in Southern Africa: African perspectives

Kristen H Perry

57

Pluralism, identity and the state: National education policy towards indigenous minorities in Japan and Canada

Nazumi Takeda, James H Williams

75

Comparing key dimensions of schooling: towards a typology of European school systems

RH Hofman, WHA Hofman, JM Gray

93

BOOK REVIEWS

Geoff Teece, Rosemary Preston, Mike McLinden, Merike Darmody, Michael Crossley

111

Pre-service English teachers and technology: A consideration of weblogs for the English classroom

Melanie Shoffner

245

Toward technology integration in mathematics education: A technology-integration course planning assignment

Gladis Kersaint

256

Digital microscopes: Enhancing collaboration and engagement in science classrooms with information technologies

Jeremy Dickerson & Dennis Kubasko

279

Developing preservice literacy teachers’ observation skills: Two stories, two technologies

Elizabeth (Betsy) A Baker

293

Face-to-face versus online coursework: A comparison of learning outcomes and costs

Terry Herman & Savilla Banister

318