Introduction : education issues in the Pacific Rim / Keith Sullivan -- We can change tomorrow by what we do today : aboriginal teacher education in Canada / Lynn McApline -- 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 & Merle Warry -- The little Asian tigers : identities, differences and globalisation / Anthony Sweeting & Paul Morris -- State policy on innovation for education : implications and tasks for Japan / Shinichi Suzuki -- The metamorphosis of China's higher education in the 1990s / Limin Bai
