Editorial Introduction.

Reports that the papers for this special issue were selected from a pool of nearly 700 presentations which were made at the 10th Congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), which was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 12 to 17 July 1998. Report that the papers were selected by the convenors of the conference?s standing commissions, which provided a significant focus for the conference proceedings; Themes of the conference, including teachers and teacher education, curriculum, higher education, lifelong learning, language, literacy and basic education, gender and education, policy, theory and theory shifts, basic education in Africa, peace and justice, dependency, European education, policy research in Africa, and culture, indigenous knowledge and learning.