CONTENTS VOLUME 43 1997 Volume 43 No.1 Editorial Introduction Articles Cost Analysis and its Use in Simulation of Policy Options: The Papua New Guinea Education Finance Model / Thomas Webster Educational Decentralization in Communist and Post-Communist Hungary / Cathy Kaufman Empowering Adult Education in Namibia and South Africa during and after Apartheid / Christiane Hopfer L'éducation musicale pour la formation d’une identité européenne pluraliste / Roberto Albarea Learning by doing — Piagets konstruktivistische Lerntheorie und ihre Konsequenzen für die pädagogische Praxis / Burkhard Vollmers A Redefinition of Liberal and Humanistic Education / Nimrod Aloni Note Cross-Cultural Encounters as a Way of Overcoming Xenophobia / Annette Scheunpflug 109-116 Book Reviews 117-128 Notes on Contributors 129-130 Volume 43 Nos. 2-3 Editorial Introduction 131-133 Articles A Political Review of International Literacy Meetings in Industri- alized Countries, 1981-1994 / Jean-Paul Hautecoeur 135-158 International Review of Education 43 (5-6): 635-638, 1997. 636 Marketisation as a Strategy for Desegregation and Redress: The Case of Historically White Schools in South Africa / Leon Tikly and Thabo Mabogoane 159-178 Governance of Education in Papua New Guinea: The Role of Boards of Governors / Api C. Maha 179-192 Gender Differences in Mathematical Achievement Related to the Ratio of Girls to Boys in School Classes / Terje Manger and Rolf Gjestad 193-201 Overeducation in Greece / Harry Anthony Patrinos 203-223 Die sokratische Lehrstrategie und ihre Relevanz für die heutige Didaktik / Joannis Kanakis 225-240 The Language Question in Namibian Schools / Birgit Brock-Utne 241-260 Book Reviews 261-275 Notes on Contributors 277-278 Volume 43 No. 4 Editorial Introduction 279-281 Articles The Contribution of Schooling to Literacy in Guatemala /K athleen S. Gorman and Ernesto Pollitt 283-298 Educational Opportunities in the Netherlands: Policy, Students’ Performance and Issues / Geert Driessen and Hetty Dekkers 299-315 The National Qualifications Framework in South Africa and “Out- of-School” Youth: Problems and Possibilities /M adumetja Kgobe 317-330 Access to Schooling in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Linking Con- cepts to Contexts / Aslam Fataar 331-348 Managing Systemic Curriculum Change: A Critical Analysis of Hong Kong’s Target-Oriented Curriculum Initiative / David R. Carless Notes The World Bank and the Literacy Question: Orthodoxy, Heresy and Ideology / Phillip W. Jones 367-375 637 Understanding the Concept of Education for All: Notes on Educa- tional Research Methods / John Maratos 375-379 Book Reviews 381-390 Notes on Contributors 391-392 Volume 43 Nos. 5-6 Special Issue: Tradition, Modernity and Postmodernity in Comparative Education Guest Editors: Vandra Masemann and Anthony Welch Editorial Introduction 393-395 Articles Challenges to Comparative Education: Between Retrospect and Expectation / Wolfgang Mitter 401-412 Indigenous Australian Education and Globalisation /W endy Brady 413-422 Girls’ Access to Education in a Developing Country / Helen Geissinger 423-438 Level Playing Field? Feminist Observations on Global/Local Artic- ulations of the Re-gendering and Restructuring of Educational 439-461 Work / Jill Blackmore Interculturality and Intercultural Education: A Challenge for Democ- 463-479 racy / Sheila Aikman Implementing Basic Education: An African Experience / Kingsley 481-496 Banya and Juliet Elu Comparative Methodology and Postmodern Relativism / Robert Young 497-505 Exporting the European Idea of a National Language: Some Edu- cational Implications of the Use of English and Indigenous Languages in the Philippines / Jerzy J. Smolicz and Illuminado Nical 507-526 Towards a People-Centred Education: Possibilities and Struggles in the Philippines / Swee-Hing Toh and Virginia Floresca- Cawagas 527-545 Privatization or Marketization: Educational Development in Post- Mao China/ Ka Ho Mok 547-567 Teacher’s In-Service Education: A Proposal for Turning Teachers into Teacher-Researchers / Ruth Da Cunha Pereira 569-579 638 Development Education Revisited: The New Zealand Experience / David Small 581-594 Problems of Illiteracy in a Literate Developing Society / Chandra Gunawardena 595-609 Le redoublement à l’école: une maladie universelle? / Jean Jacques Paul 611-627 Notes on Contributors 629-633 Volume Contents / Author Index 635-638 AUTHOR INDEX VOLUME 43 Aikman, S., 463 Kanakis, I., 225 Albarea, R., 61 Kaufman, C., 25 Aloni, N., 87 Kgobe, M., 317 Banya, K., 481 Mabogoane, T., 159 Blackmore, J., 439 Maha, A.C., 179 Brady, W., 413 Manger, T., 193 Brock-Utne, B., 241 Maratos, J., 375 Mitter, W., 401 Carless, D.R., 349 Mok, K.H., 547 Da Cunha Pereira, R., 569 Nical, I., 507 Dekkers, H., 299 Driessen, G., 299 Patrinos, H.A., 203 Paul, J.J., 611 Elu, J., 481 Pollitt, E., 283 Fataar, A., 331 Scheunpflug, A., 109 Floresca-Cawagas, V., 527 Small, D., 581 Smolicz, J.J., 507 Geissinger, H., 423 Gjestad, R., 193 Tikly, L., 159 Gorman, K.S., 283 Toh, S.-H., 527 Gunawardena, C., 595 Vollmers, B., 73 Hautecoeur, J.-P., 135 Hopfer, C., 43 Webster, T., 5 Jones, P.W., 367 Young, R., 497