World Yearbook of Education 2000: Education in Times of Transition

The yearbook takes as its starting point the context of the new millennium; the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the continuing rise of the Pacific Rim and particularly of the People's Republic of China, the new energy of the USA, the UK and Germany, and the renaissance of Islamic states. The yearbook will pose the question: are there educational patterns, educational lessons to be learned, within these major political and economic transitions, some of which have tipped into crisis, all of which have been traumatic?