This paper contributes to the knowledge base for preparing pre-service teachers (PSTs) for contemporary multicultural classrooms. To do so, we refer to our ongoing project "See, Listen and Share: Exploring intercultural music education in a transnational experience" across three Higher Education sites (Australia and Spain). Drawing on…

This article explores project-based cross-cultural and cross-institutional learning. Using Web 2.0 technologies, this project involved more than 240 students and eighteen academic staff from seven international universities. The focus of this article relates to a project-based learning activity named "The Gift". At each institution the…

This document collects the appendices to the Pre-primary Education report of Study Project Europe 2000 of the European Cultural Foundation. This study collected data on the psychological, sociological, and educational aspects of pre-primary educational systems in England, France, Italy, Sweden, and the Federal Republic of Germany. (CS)

For more than 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has been conducting comparative studies of educational achievement in a number of curriculum areas, including mathematics and science. TIMSS 2011 represents the fifth cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS),…

A seminar designed and conducted for foreign and American students entitled, "A Transcultural Seminar on Tradition and Change, on Values in the Twentieth Century," is described as an opportunity to relate individual experience and education to the contemporary scene. The seminar met during the academic year 1966-67 at bi-monthly meetings of 25…