Education and Development in a Global Era: successful strategies for globalisation (.pdf link), with A. Green, S. Kamat, M. Oketch, E.Vickers, DFID, Researching the Issues no 69, London (co-editor with Andy Green and contributor), 2007
Education for All and Multigrade Teaching: challenges and opportunities, Springer, Dordrecht (editor and contributor), 2006
Education for All: Policy and planning lessons from Sri Lanka (.pdf link), Researching the Issues, no 46, DFID, London, 2003
Primary Education Reform in Sri Lanka (.pdf link), Isurupaya, Ministry of Education and Higher Education Publications Department (sole editor and contributor), 2000 (Sinhala and Tamil editions published in 2003)
Labouring to Learn: towards a political economy of education and plantations in Sri Lanka, Basingstoke, Macmillan Press (English edition), 1999. Also translated into Sinhala and Tamil in 2002 by the Social Scientist’s Association, Colombo.
Education, Cultures and Economics: dilemmas for development, New York and London: Falmer Press, (co-editor with Fiona Leach and contributor), 1999
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Why do Students Learn? A Six Country Study of Student Motivation, Institute of Development Studies Research Report, Series Rr17, Sussex (sole editor and contributor), 1987