Tables of contents

An investigation of teaching and learning: using course management software (CMS) in a typically face to face course

Marcia Burrell-Ihlow

5

Integrating ICT into higher education: investigating onsite and online professors' points of view

Gerard Fillion

17

Enhancing reading literacy in elementary children using programming for scientific simulations

Alexandria Williams, Kenneth Rouse, Cheryl Seals and Juan Gilbert

57

Instant messaging between students and faculty: a tool for increasing student–faculty interaction

Corey A Hickerson

71

Bridging the gap between time- and structure-based navigation in web lectures

Robert Mertens

89

The impact of teleconferencing with native English speakers on English learning by Taiwanese students

Wen-Chi Wu

107

Online learning and quality assurance

Vicky Zygouris-Coe

127

Editorial

Boundaries and diversity in comparative education

Michael Crossley

371

Articles

Setting the normative boundaries: crucial epistemological benchmarks in comparative education

Erwin H Epstein

373

The politics of international league tables: PISA in Japan's achievement crisis debate

Keita Takayama

387

The global growth of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme over the first 40 years: a critical assessment

Tristan Bunnell

409

Ethical dilemmas in individual and collective rights-based approaches to tertiary education scholarships: the cases of Canada and Cuba

Sabine Lehr

425

The evolution of the European Union's lifelong learning policies: an institutional learning perspective

Moosung Lee, Tryggvi Thayer and Na'im Madyun

445

Evaluating multigrade school reform in Latin America

Patrick J McEwan

465

Rewriting citizenship? Civic education in Costa Rica and Argentina

David F Suárez

485

Review essay

How does globalisation interact with higher education? The continuing lack of consensus

Anneliese Dodds

505

Editorial

Meeri Hellstén

The impact of interactive multimedia on kindergarten students' representations of fractions

Kristy Goodwin

Relationships between self-processes and group processes with friends and acquaintances

José Hanham and John McCormick

Getting down and dirty: values in education for sustainability

Elaine Lewis, Caroline Mansfield and Catherine Baudains

To be or have not been: learning language tenses through drama

Philip O'Gara

Changing teachers: syllabuses, subjects and selves

Kerry-Ann O'Sullivan, Kay Carroll and Michael Cavanagh

Use of cognitive organisers as a self regulated learning strategy

Kym Tan, Vaille Dawson and Grady Venville

Book review: Teaching English as a Second Language

Rachel Burke

Shaking the trees: the psychology of collecting in US newspaper coverage of the college admissions process

Ronald Bishop

6

Media and teaching about the Middle East

Khodadad Kaviani

24

A comparative analysis of assessment and evaluation exercises included in geography textbooks written according to the 2005 secondary education geography curriculum and textbooks of the former curriculum in Turkey

Okan Yasar

45

The pedagogy of oppression: a brief look at ‘No Child Left Behind’ (Chinese Translation)

Ramin Farahmandpur and Peter McLaren

69