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Hayden Mary and Thompson Jeff (2008): International Schools: Growth and Influence, UNESCO: International Institute for Educational Planning, Pages – 90, ISBN: 978-92-803-1320-8.

This booklet, International schools: growth and influence, is 92nd in the series of Fundamentals of Educational Planning has brought forth about International schools have a long history and have grown steadily worldwide in the recent past. Many people, including educators and policy planners, know minimal about what is an international school, about its experiences and practices. Authors have rightly placed it, that in few regards, international schools are a well-kept mystery. In this booklet, the authors dive profound into the sources and development of international schools and their impact in the time of globalization and contend that the wonder of international schools ought not to be kept mystery.
This book advocates, a historic sense of the international schools movement beginning with the establishment of the bilingual (French/English) International School of Geneva for expatriate children in 1924. For lack of a clear agreed definition on what …show more content…

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