IJELP SPECIAL ISSUES
Special Issue Romania
General Editor: Jan De Groof
CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION; Rolf Ekéus
- UNIVERSITIES, MULTI-CULTURALISM AND DEMOCRACY; George Schöpflin
- LEARNING INTEGRATION: MINORITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION; Walter Kemp
- INTREGRATING DIVERSITY: IN EVERYBODY’S INTEREST; Max van der Stoel
- MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN ROMANIA; Andrei Marga
- PERCEPTIONS OF MULTICULTURALISM; István Horváth
- HIGHER EDUCATION AND LINGUISTIC MINORITIES: A CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE; Jean-Michel Beillard
- MINORITY EDUCATION RIGHTS IN EUROPE; John Packer
- EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINORITIES IN EDUCATION IN THE NEW EUROPE; Jan De Groof, Gracienne Lauwers

Towards a Quasi Market? Issues of Governance, Management, and Accountability in Education
General Editor: Jan De Groof
Special editor: Daniele Vidoni
CONTENTS
- Foreword; Angelo Paletta
- What does school autonomy mean in practice? Charles L. Glenn
- The subsidiarity principle in multi-level control within educational systems; Jaap Scheerens
- Accountability, evaluation and improvement of schools in England: What does inspection contribute?; Peter Matthews
- Accountability through external exams and the management of educational institutions; Ludger Wößmann
- Performance measurement for the strategic management of educational activities; Angelo Paletta
- Why should teachers want school accountability? Lessons from a comparative approach to the subject; Daniele Vidoni
- New prospects in research on school effectiveness and quality; Enrico Gori
- Accreditation and evaluation: toward a new synthesis?; Antonio Matacena, Vincenzo Bencivenga, Isabella Boselli

Legitimation and Stability of Political Systems; The Contribution of National Narratives
Special editor: Ingo Richter
CONTENTS
- Introduction; Ingo Richter
- Writing the Past: an examination of history and national narratives in the Republic of Yemen’s textbooks; Elizabeth L. Young
- Dilemmas of moving from the divided past to envisaged united future: Rewriting the history books in the North cyprus; Dilek Latif
- Post-war reconciliation through joint textbook revision: The cases of franco-german and polish-german history books; Leopold von Carlowitz
- Politics, memory and historical conciousness in Japan; Sven Saaler
- Responding to the thin veneers of controversial issues: The promises and challenges of curriculum implementation in post-communist schools; Thomas Misco
- History education and democracy in post-apartheid South Africa; Gail Weldon
- Education and national narratives: changing representations of the armenian genocide in history textbooks in Turkey; Jennifer M. Dixon
- Narrating the trauma of political violence: Strategies of forgetting in Italian history education; Andrea Hajek
- “History and hysteria”: Peru´s Truth and Reconciliation commission and conflict in the national curriculum; Julia Paulson

Dignity in Education
CONTENTS
- Universitas and Humanitas: A Plea for Greater Awareness of Current Challenges; Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
- Providing a safe educational environment; a scan of the legal situation in the Netherlands; Pieter W.A. Huisman
- The protection of children from violence in schools in Ireland; Oliver Mahon B.L.
- Violence in Education - Country Report Austria; Florian Lehne
- Education for Multiculturalism in a Deeply Divided Society between Peace and Conflict: The Israeli Case; Majid Al-Haj
- A Country Report on Violence in Education: South Africa; Georgia A. du Plessis

South African Education after Twenty Years of Democracy
Jan de Groof and Georgia du Plessis (eds.)
CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Quality and Equality in South African Education after 20 Years; Francois Venter
- Some thoughts on equality and equal educational opportunities in South Africa now and in the future; Johan Beckmann
- An Update on Religious Freedom in the United States; Charles J. Russo, M.Div., J.D., Ed.D.
- Inclusivity: Applications of dignity, equality and freedom; Annamagriet de Wet and Willie van Vollenhoven
- Fisher v. Texas: Pedagogical Concerns, Diversity, and Grutter re-examined; Laverne Lewis Gaskins
- Democracy and justiciability of the Right to Education – The Brazilian experience; Nina Ranieri
- Rights and Realities in Australian and New Zealand Education: ‘regular and systematic and not unsuitable’?; Sally Varnham
- Student and School Rights: An Uneasy Balance in the U.S. 126; Ralph D. Mawdsley
- The development of the best-interests-of-the-child concept by the South African constitutional court – implications for school discipline; Mariette Reyneke
- Secularism as a closed world structure and its effect on religion related school choice; Georgia Alida du Plessis