Includes bibliographical references and index.

Consensus and revisionism in educational history / Gary McCulloch -- The urban history of education / Ansley T. Erickson -- Method in the history of education / William Richardson -- Theory in the history of education / Isaac Gottesman -- Education in Greek and Roman antiquity / Mark Joyal -- Education in Medieval Europe / Spencer E. Young -- Education in pre-modern China and Japan / Conrad Schirokauer -- Pre-colonial indigenous education in the Western Hemisphere and Pacific / Adrea Lawrence -- National education systems : Europe / James C. Albisetti - NationaleEducation systems : North America / Nancy Beadie -- National education systems : Australia and New Zealand / Craig Campbell and Maxine Stephenson -- National education systems : Latin America / G. Antonio Espinoza -- National education systems : Asia / Elizabeth VanderVen -- National education systems : Africa / Peter Kallaway -- National education systems : Middle East / Heidi Morrison -- Higher education in modern Europe / Vincent Carpentier -- The German university and its influence / Charles E. McClelland -- Higher education in Canada and the United States / Philo Hutcheson -- Higher education in Asia / Anthony Welch -- The professions and professional education / Richard K. Neumann Jr. -- Inequality in education / Judith Kafka -- Gendering the history of education / Lucy E. Bailey and Karen Graves -- Education and migration in history / Paul J. Ramsey -- Race and ethnicity in education history / Yoon K. Pak -- Education and the African diaspora / Christopher M. Span and Brenda N. Sanya -- Colonial education and anti-colonial struggles / Ana Isabel Madeira and Luis Grosso Correia -- Conflicting constructions of childhood and children in education history / Barbara Beatty -- Religion and the history of education / James W. Fraser and Diane L. Moore -- Progressive education / William J. Reese -- The history of school teachers and administrators / Kate Rousmaniere -- Transitions from rural to urban schooling / David A. Gamson -- The modern history of literacy / David Vincent -- Curriculum history / Daniel Tr?hler -- The history of non-formal and informal education / Andrew Grunzke -- The history of technology and education / Sevan Terzian -- The history of transnational and comparative education / Marcelo Caruso.