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The present work is very largely an updating of the study which we published some five years ago, under the title Education and Development in Western Europe, the United States and the U.S.S.R., A Comparative Study,1 a study undertaken at the request of the European Community Institute for University Studies, under the Presidency of Mr. Max Kohnstamm.
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Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1969. Translated into English from the original French, L’enseignement dans les pays du Marché Commun, Paris, Institut Pédagogique National, 1965. The study was also published in German under the title Das Bildungswesen in den Ländern der EWG, Verlag Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt-amMain, 1966.
In this connection, readers may refer to the study commissioned by ECF from Professor J. Lauwerys on Education policies since the Second World War.
For the reasons of time and space indicated above, it has not been possible to deal with the problems of children maladjusted to the ordinary forms of schooling (the physically handicapped, mental defectives, etc.)
Subject to any highly contingent and currently unforeseeable consequences which innovations in teaching methods might have on the form of schooling for young people.
Louis Cros, L’explosion scolaire (Paris) Comité Universitaire d’Information Pédagogique, 1961, 178 p. (Education — Economie).
See, for example, the important O.E.C.D. study entitled: “Structures professionnelles et éducatives et niveau de développement économique” (Paris, 1970).
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Poignant, R. (1973). Introduction. In: Education in the Industrialised Countries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7592-8_1
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