Research on mother tongue education in a comparative international perspective

Pioneering in the comparison of standard language teaching in Europe, the International Mother tongue Education Network (IMEN) in the last twenty-five years stimulated experts from more than fifteen European countries to participate in a range of research projects in this field of qualitative educational analyses. The volume "e;Research on mother tongue education in a comparative international perspective - Theoretical and methodological issues"e; documents theoretical principals and methodological developments that during the last decades shaped IMEN research and may enlarge the fundaments of comparative qualitative research in language education in a seminal way. The topics of this volume include: * IMEN's aims, points of departure, history and methodology; * research on the professional practical knowledge of MTE-teachers; * innovation, key incident analysis and international triangulation; * positioning in theory and practice. Also included: the IMEN bibliography 1984-2004 which supplies a complete picture of IMEN research activities from the beginning.