FOREWORD As a regular part of its duties, the Office of Education collects and gives out information about education in other countries. In that service, this list of references on foreign and comparative education is to be used as an aid in responding to the many requests which come to it for sources of data about education abroad, its history, administration, organization, financing, and other characteristics. The list was compiled after several years of experience in helping school officials in the United States to evaluate the credentials of foreign students, and in giving advice and direction to graduate and other students of comparative education, a kind of work which necessarily made the author familiar with the best materials available here and in other countries. It is published in the expectation that it will save those persons who for any reason wish to know about education abroad, much time and effort in learning of reliable sources of information. BESS GOODY KOONTZ, VII FOREIGN AND COMPARATIVE EDUCATION A List of References INTRODUCTION NTEREST IN EDUCATION in other countries is growing to such an extent in the United States that the Office of Education is asked frequently for bibliographies and data in detail with regard to what is taking place in schools abroad. Many of these requests come from college registrars and committees of admission; others are from students engaged in research; still others are from teachers and professors of the history of education and of comparative education. The following list of references has been made up with a view to meeting the demands in a general way of all these groups and to laying the foundation for later lists to supplement these sources. Out of the immense mass of material published both abroad and in this country on foreign school systems, the attempt has been made to select that which would be most readily available, up to date, accurate, and usable both for people well versed in this field and for others that are beginning to study it. In the past 5 or 10 years a considerable number of excellent yearbooks and handbooks have come from the press. They are of inestimable value for the information they contain and for the references which they give to other sources of data. They are placed first in this list. Following them are some general readings and references to a few special topics, such as missionary schools abroad, adult education, agricultural education, commercial education, medical education, and technical education. The second part of the list is devoted to separate countries, placed in the alphabetical order of their names. Of course, it frequently happens that an account for an individual country is included in some of the yearbooks or general readings, and in order to facilitate ease of reference in such cases, at the close of a list for a separate country are brief references such as those on pages 7-8 for Argentina"The Year Book of Education, 1932 ", which means that an account 62533-34- 2 2 FOREIGN AND COMPARATIVE EDUCATION of education in Argentina is to be found in The Year Book of Education for 1932, edited by Lord Eustace Percy and published in London by Evans Bros., Ltd. In like manner, attention is called to the Educational Yearbooks, the Near East Year Books, L'Organisation de l'Instruction publique dans 53 pays, and some special publications on education in Latin America. Not all of these cross-references are given, only the more important of them; the reader is advised to watch for others. |