Preface

With this Volume 10, I end my tenure as senior editor of the series International Perspectives on Education and Society. When I was asked in 2001 to revive the moribund series there had been only four volumes published over the preceding decade. The vision proposed then was to create and maintain a series that would represent an annual review of examples of the best scholarship on selected topics on education from an international perspective. With the intellectual support of the expanding and dynamic community of scholars of comparative education throughout the world this vision has become a reality in the six annual volumes published since 2002. To the publishers and contributing authors, as well as to the scores of reviewers of proposed papers who generously donated their time and expertise in selecting and strengthening the final chapters, I want to extend my appreciation – it has been an honor to work with all of you.