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This book covers a wide range of topics on educational issues of importance to Pacific Rim countries. The chapters of this edited collection are: Introduction: education issues in the Pacific Rim / Keith Sullivan; We can change tomorrow by what we do today: aboriginal teacher education in Canada / Lynn McAlpine; Judging education: implications of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Jonathan L. Black-Branch; Under the new hegemonic alliance: conservatism and educational policy in the United States / Michael W. Apple; Training rural teachers in the Peruvian Andes / John Wolforth; Issues for education in the South Pacific: education and change in the Kingdom of Tonga / ‘Ana Koloto; The great New Zealand education experiment and the issue of teachers as professionals / Keith Sullivan; Maori education: looking back to the future / Kathie Irwin; From corporate to supply-side federalism?: narrowing the Australian education policy agenda, 1987-96 / John Knight and Merle Warry; The Little Asian Tigers: identities, differences and globalisation / Anthony Sweeting and Paul Morris; State policy on innovations for education: implications and tasks for Japan / Shin’ichi Suzuki; The metamorphosis of China’s higher education in the 1990s/ Bai, Limin.