Education - Comparative

Reimagines global citizenship education by taking a relational approach, offering educators and scholars new frameworks to navigate complexity and foster meaningful learning experiences.In an era of increasing polarization and complexity, The World in Us challenges conventional approaches to global citizenship education by offering a...

This groundbreaking book uses a comprehensive study of a novel Master of Education program to showcase how teachers can be engaged in authoritative equity-based research, using comparative education theory, inquiry-based pedagogy, and the UNESCO SDGs as powerful frameworks. By developing agency to advance culturally...

This second volume of Language Issues in Comparative Education, following the tradition of the first, introduces the state of the field, re-establishes core terminology and concepts, and situates the chapters in terms of their contributions to multilingual education based on non-dominant languages. The first...

This book makes available to a wider audience for the first time material based on fieldwork carried out by the Solomon Island researchers in their own country. The findings will have vital relevance to policy makers, teachers and students. Over the past four years...

This research-based handbook listed the learning and practicing experience of Chinese international students in Canadian graduate schools, which aims to increase their engagement and enhance their experience. Specifically, this book explores the challenges and needs faced by Chinese international graduate students engaging in Canada...

This book provides readers with a unique opportunity to walk a mile in the shoes of an international student. It also highlights the importance of a strong support system for students in both the curricular and co-curricular settings and offers insights to international educators...

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Gives researchers and policy analysts conceptual tools and empirical assessments to gauge the possibilities for institutional innovation.The New Institutionalism in Education brings together leading academics to explore the ongoing changes in K-12 and higher education in both the United States and abroad. The contributors...

Examines the effects of schooling on young people's values, choices, and identities.Making Modern Lives looks at how young people shape their lives as they move through their secondary school years and into the world beyond. It explores how they develop dispositions, attitudes, identities, and...

This is the first comparative study of the background, development, laws, structure, and impact of teacher unionism in nations around the world. This ground-breaking analysis offers an international perspective on the world's most populous profession--teaching--and its halting but powerful efforts to form unions, to...

This Open Access book features a school development model (Arizona Initiative for Leadership Development and Research - AZiLDR) that offers a roadmap for schools to navigate the complexities of continuous school development. Filled with processes that balance evidence-based values with democratic, culturally responsive values,...

Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles provides a contemporary survey of education development and key educational issues in the region. The chapters cover: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana,...

In recent years, counseling ideas in the Asia-Pacific region developed from construct, originating from a Euro-American framework. The implementation of such counseling ideas has presented many problems and challenges for Asian Pacific counselors. This book looks at the construct counseling in terms of both...

Although international cultural exchange is an important feature of contemporary international relations, it remains one of the most neglected areas of research and training. Since World War II, more than six million academics and countless other individuals have spent significant amounts of time studying...

This edited volume scrutinises the Nordic dimension within education and how this notion affects, frames and sets direction for school and education in policy, practice and educational research.The book interrogates what unites and divides Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and analyses how the...

This book draws on scholarly expertise across the former Soviet Union to provide a comparative analysis of the policies and practices that are discussed within the context of global reform of teacher education.Divided into three parts, chapters of this book discuss the context behind...

This book compares the nature and practice of internationalisation of the curriculum at the policy, institutional, and classroom levels in Vietnam and Australia: the former an Asian, developing, and sending country of international students, and the latter an Anglophone, developed country, and a major...

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Learning about global issues and themes has become an increasingly recognised element of education in many countries around the world. Terms such as global learning, global citizenship and global education can be seen within national education policies and international initiatives led by the UN,...

This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: China, India, Russia, Turkey, South Africa and South Korea. It describes how open and distance education is...

Weakened by two Opium Wars and a succession of internal rebellions in the mid-1800s, China's imperial leaders made a historic decision-to break a tradition of isolation and seek education outside the homeland's borders. This book does not attempt to debate or determine the extent...

This volume explores how immigrants carve out new identities, construct meanings, and negotiate spaces for themselves within social structures created or mediated by education policy and practice. It highlights immigrants that position themselves within global movements while experiencing the everyday effects of federal, state,...

This book analyses the efforts throughout East Asia to deploy education for purposes of political socialization, and in particular in order to shape notions of identity. Written by a group of international education experts chapters discuss the enduring focus on the role of curricula...

This book brings together contributions from around the world that analyse and reflect on the way curriculum is configuring and reconfiguring that world.Author: Lyn YatesISBN-10: 0415575826ISBN-13: 9780415575829Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2011Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

In Essays on Pedagogy, Robin Alexander brings together some of his most powerful writing, drawing on his research in Britain and other countries over the past two decades. Author: Robin AlexanderISBN-10: 0415454824ISBN-13: 9780415454827Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2008Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Focusing on Singapore's education system from an equity perspective, Chiong's book describes the often unheard perspectives of socio-economically disadvantaged families in Singapore. The book will appeal to researchers and students interested in the sociology and politics of education, social policy, and Asian culture and...

Containing a variety of case studies, from evidence-based policies for early childhood education in Brazil, to the use of evidence on contextualized admissions to Scottish universities, the volume explores a variety of different ways to approach the problem of getting evidence into Education. Author:...

Written by scholars and professionals from such organizations as the Council of Europe and the European Community, this volume provides a comprehensive examination of education throughout Europe. The particularities of national educational systems are of necessity within its purview, but overall organization of the...

Brings together in a single volume a collection of international scholars from multiple disciplines Pushes the boundaries of education policy studies through its insightful analyses Equips readers to handle the complexities of policy research by employing critical thinking Author: Guorui FanISBN-10: 9811383421ISBN-13: 9789811383427Publisher: SpringerLanguage:...

Access, attainment and success of Roma people in education are at a crisis point across Europe. Recent research has revealed that Roma people are the most underrepresented group in schools and other educational institutions. Policy makers across Central and Eastern Europe face the challenge...

Education about living in society and in the world is a vital task of schools. Yet such civic education is not always critically examined, and few among us have been encouraged to reflect on our civic education experiences. Around the world, one's civic education...

Offering new and original readings of literature, poetry, and education as interpreted through the conceptual lens of Heidegger's later philosophy of the "Turn", this book helps readers understand Heidegger's later thought and presents new takes on how to engage the themes that emerged from...

Zhang analyses the phenomenon of private supplementary tutoring from a global perspective, juxtaposing countries with strong regulations with counterparts having weak or no regulations.Author: Wei ZhangISBN-10: 1032331550ISBN-13: 9781032331553Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/02/2023Pages: 152Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

This volume offers a critical examination of the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), focusing on its origins and implementation, relationship to other international large-scale assessments, and its impacts on educational policy and reform at national and cross-national levels.Using empirical data gathered from a...

The edited volume provides multiple lens to view school governance practices, exploring its modernization, ethical review, future trend, as well as the reciprocal influence of educational policy. Drawing on a wide-spread experience in the field of education governance from leading scholars, emerging scholars, doctoral...

This book looks at madrasas and educational institutions run by Muslim communities in India focusing on the history, social relevance and importance of these institutions. It provides a sensitive and in-depth analysis of the push and pull of tradition, religiosity and modernity within these...

This book is the first comparative analysis of global faculty salaries, remuneration, and terms of employment. Offering an in-depth international comparison of academic salaries in 28 countries, chapter authors shed light on the conditions and expectations that shape the modern academic profession. This valuable...

The unprecedented human mobility the world is now experiencing poses new and unparalleled challenges regarding the provision of social and educational services throughout the global South. This volume examines the role played by schooling in immigrant incorporation or exclusion, using case studies of Thailand,...

Bringing together a collection of essays by Hannu Simola and his colleagues, this book analyses the key dimensions of schooling in Finland to provide a critical, analytical and uncompromising picture of the Finnish education system. Going beyond the story of success, the book reveals...

Continuing Joel Spring's reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text is a comprehensive, thought-provoking overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic.Author: Joel SpringISBN-10: 0415749840ISBN-13: 9780415749848Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2014Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h...

Globalization, migration, transnational movements and the development of the tiger economies of Asia have led education leaders and policy makers around the world but particularly in Australia, the USA, Canada, and New Zealand to view schools as key sites for developing 'globally competent', 'Asia...

The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of a new curriculum in 2002, has been a source of fierce controversy. This book, based on an extended, detailed...

This book is a response to the loss of learning experienced by children and young people during the COVID-19 crisis. It examines the measures which were taken to fix the disruption of education and their limitations particularly in reaching marginalised groups.Author: Marilyn Leask,Sarah YounieISBN-10:...

This book is about education, ideology, power and identity investment and concerns an influential East Asian expatriate community. Specifically, it seeks to understand particular ways in which the Japanese white-collar elite live as a closed and self-referentially defined in-group, despite the manifestly multicultural ethos...

Trust, Accountability, and Capacity in Education System Reform illuminates how these three concepts are embedded in an institutional context temporally, socially, and institutionally, and offers an analysis that will be of use to researchers, policymakers, and agencies working in comparative education and towards education...

ICT and International Learning Ecologies addresses new ways to explore international, comparative, and cultural issues in education and technology.Author: Ian A. LubinISBN-10: 0367358557ISBN-13: 9780367358556Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2021Pages: 214Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Through in-depth interviews with the presidents of major Chinese universities, this text explores the changing demands on leaders in Higher Education in the wake of globalization, and develops a contemporary model of Hybrid Leadership.Glocalization and the Development of a Hybrid Leadership Model examines the...

This book is an in-depth analysis of the educational development of tribals in India. Education as Development: Deprivation, Poverty, Dispossession is a significant new addition for understanding educational and economic setbacks experienced by the marginalized in India.The volume: Focuses on how the social, economic,...

Private higher education is perhaps the most rapidly growing segment of postsecondary education worldwide. In this collection, the authors provide a multifaceted and comparative analysis of private higher education and consider both broad issues and specific case studies. The only book currently available to...