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VOLUME 18 LIST OF CONTENTS Number 1 Keith Watson Editorial Jin Xiao Education expansion in Shenzhen. China: its interface with economic development Stephen P. Heyneman The transition from party/state to open democracy: the role of education Santosh Mehrotra and Household costs and public expenditure on primary Enrique Delamonica education in five low income countries: a compara- tive analysis Barend Vlaardingerbroek The ‘myth of greater access’ in agrarian LDC edu- cation and science education: an alternative concep- tual framework Ph.D. Abstracts Magda Fouric Institutional governance of higher education in tran- sition: a South African perspective Issa Ebrahimzadeh The development of distance education in Iran with special reference to the planning and management of Payam-e-Noor university Book Reviews Mark Bray Functional Analysis (Management Audits) of the Organization of Ministries of Education, by Richard Sack and Mahieddine Saidi Abby Rubin Riddell Decentralization of Education: Community Financing, by Mark Bray Number 2 Keith Watson Editorial Keith M. Lewin Education in emerging Asia: patterns, policies, and futures into the 21st century Robert G. Elliott, Keith B. Lucas, Authenticating a model for sustainable professional Donald E. Stewart and development in an international context Clarence M. Burke Stuart C. Carr, Rose Chipande and 133 Expatriate aid salaries in Malawi: a doubly demotivat- Malcolm MacLachlan ing influence? Thomas Clayton Explanations for the use of languages of wider com- munication in education in developing countries Number 3 Keith Watson Editorial Jane Freeland An interesting absence: the gendered study of language and linguistic diversity in Latin America Rosaleen Howard-Malverde ‘Grasping awareness’: mother-tongue literacy for Que- chua speaking women in Northern Potosi, Bolivia Sheila Aikman Towards an intercultural participatory approach to learning for the Harakmbut Colette Chabbott Constructing educational consensus: international development professionals and the world conference on education for all John Pryor Action research in West African schools: problems and prospects Wim H. M. L. Hoppers Teachers’ resource centres in Southern Africa; an investigation into local autonomy and educational change Clive Harber Markets, equity and democracy—structural adjustment and the tensions of educational change in South Africa Ka-Ho Mok and King-Yee Wat Merging of the public and private boundary: education and the market place in China Number 4 Keith Watson Editorial Paul Bennell and Jan Segerstrom Vocational education and training in developing countries: has the World Bank got it right? Jin Yang General or vocational? The tough choice in the Chinese education policy Kye Woo Lee An alternative technical education system: a case study of Mexico Tuomas Takala Making educational policy under influence of external assistance and national politics—a comparative analy- sis of the education sector policy documents of Ethi- opia, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia Dumma C. Mapolelo Pre-service teachers’ beliefs about and attitudes toward mathematics: the case of Dudu Ismael Abu-Saad, Kathleen Abu-Saad, Bedouin Arab mothers’ aspirations for their children’s Gillian Lewando-Hundt, education in the context of radical social change Michele R. Forman, Ilana Belmaker, Heinz W. Berendes and David Chang Book Reviews W. I. Ozanne Landscapes of Literacy: an ethnographic study of func- tional literacy in marginal Philippine communities, by Maria Luisa Canieso-Donornila Eng Thye Jason Tan The Politics of Chinese Education in Malaya, 1945- 1961, by Tan Liok Ee Alan Rogers Lifelong Learning, by Norman Longworth and W. Keith Davies Number 5 Keith Watson Editorial P. Duraisamy, Estelle James, Is there a quantity—quality trade-off as pupil-teacher Julia Lane and Jee-Peng Tan ratios increase? Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India Salim Chishti, M. Aynul Hasan, What determines school teachers’ rates of return in M. Ajaz Rasheed Pakistan (Punjab)? Schooling or experience Tansy Jessop and Alan Penny A study of teacher voice and vision in the narratives of rural South African and Gambian primary school teach- ers Caroline Dyer and Archana Choksi Education is like wearing glasses: Nomads’ views of literacy and empowerment David Ebbutt Evaluation of projects in the developing world: some cultural and methodological issues Damien McDevitt: How effective is the cascade as a method for dissemi- nating ideas? A case study in Botswana Book Reviews Alan Rogers Imagining Tomorrow: adult education for transform- ation, by Marjorie Mayo John R. Minnis Education in Singapore: A Book of Readings, by Jason Tan, S. Gopinathan and Ho Wah Kam (Eds.) Pat Pridmore Where Women Have No Doctor — A Health Guide For Women, by A. August Burns, R. Lovich, J. Maxwell and K. Shapiro Grace C. L. Mak How Educating a Girl Changes the Woman She Becomes: An Intergenerational Study in Northern Ghana, by Joyce Wolf and Martina Odonkor Eng Thye Jason Tan The Challenge of Eastern Asian Education: Impli- cations for America, by William K. Cummings and Philip G. Altbach (eds.) Number 6 Keith Watson Editorial Patrick J. McEwan The effectiveness of multigrade schools in Colombia Marissa Rollnick, Sabelo Manyatsi, A model for studying gaps in education: a Swaziland Fred Lubben and John Bradley case study in the learning of science Mark Bray Regional examinations councils and _ geopolitical change: commonality, diversity, and lessons from experience M. Miles Professional and family responses to mental retardation in East Bengal and Bangladesh, 1770s—1990s G. R. (Bob) Teasdale Local and global knowledge in higher education: a search for complementarity in the Asia-Pacific region Book Reviews William I. Ozanne Inside/Outside Schools: towards a critical sociology of education in Malta, by Ronald G. Sultana Eng Thye Jason Tan Higher Education in Post-Mao China, by Michael Agelasto and Bob Adamson (Eds.)