Richard Bates

References; 6 Teaching and learning in international schools; The international school context; Culture: essentialist and non-essentialist views; Teachers; The teaching of values; Cultural differences; Power distance; Individualism-collectivism; Uncertainty avoidance; Masculinity-femininity; Confucius dynamism; Students; Parents; Curriculum; Conclusions; References; 7 International curriculum; Theorising curriculum; Aspects of international curriculum; Grouped Baccalaureate-type programmes and continuity between programmes; Summary; References; 8 Assessment and international schools

Globalisation, Internationalisation and the Future for International Schools

Schooling Internationally

Paul Crawford

Anna Greenwood

Jonathan Memel

Homes can be both comforting and troubling places. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale’s experiences of domestic life and how ideas of home influenced her writings and pioneering work. From her childhood homes in Derbyshire and Hampshire, she visited the poor sick in their cottages. As a young woman, feeling imprisoned at home, she broke free to become a woman of action, bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean War and advising the British population on the home front how to create healthier, contagion-free homes. Later, she created Nightingale Homes for nursing trainees and acted as mother-in-chief to her extended family of nurses. These efforts, inspired by her Christian faith and training in human care from religious houses, led to major changes in professional nursing and public health, as Nightingale strove for homely, compassionate care in Britain and around the world. Shedid most of this work from her bed after contracting the debilitating illness, brucellosis, in the Crimea, turning her various private homes into offices and ‘households of faith’. In the year of the bicentenary of her birth, she remains as relevant as ever, achieving an astonishing cultural afterlife.

Florence Nightingale at Home

Tony Townsend

This book provides a wide-ranging review of the current state of teacher education, with contributions by an international group of teacher educators. It focuses on issues confronting teacher educators today and in the coming decade, including the impact of globalization on the profession of teaching, and the need for teacher education to adapt to changing accountability requirements, and establish a set of minimum standards that qualify a person to teach.

Richard Bates

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