Education - Comparative

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview and discussion of the issues surrounding the Malaysian Indian community's educational development. It will appeal to students and academics in the faculties of social science and comparative education, development economics, and sociology, with a focus on access...

In this fascinating travelogue, Klemm provides a detailed look at the education systems of several European countries in the early 20th century. From classroom instruction to extracurricular activities, Klemm offers insights into the similarities and differences between the educational cultures of these countries.This work...

The challenge facing the education system in many countries of meeting demands for higher quality public education within increasingly severe national economic and fiscal constraints is the subject of this collection of essays by eleven outstanding educational practitioners. The book examines national level strategy...

The Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education is a comprehensive reference text, covering every topic in the field with entries ranging from short descriptions to much longer pieces where the topic warrants more elaboration. The entries provide access to theories and to research in the area...

Bringing together the perspectives of researchers, policy makers, activists, educators and practitioners, this book critically interrogates the Western-centric assumptions underpinning education and development agendas and the colonial legacies of violence they often uphold. The book considers the crucial connection between the idea of sustainable...

This book tells the real story of education in low-income countries and shows why ordinary people are making extreme sacrifices to reject free public schools in favor of low quality private schools, both legal and illegal. Based on the author's experience of working in...

This paper explores an area of tertiary education that is currently understudied-the extent and nature of differentiation and articulation in African tertiary education systems. The overall finding of the study is that a binary system is dominant, characterized by universities and polytechnics as distinct...

A preeminent philosopher of education in the United States, Jane Roland Martin challenges conventional wisdom that education consists of small, incremental changes within a student's life. Using case studies of personal transformations, or metamorphoses, Martin examines Malcolm X, George Bernard Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, Victor...

Research by universities plays an increasingly important role in shaping education policy around the world yet there is much dissatisfaction with the ways that they share that work. This much-needed, original book analyses efforts and systems in nine countries to mobilize research knowledge, describing...

This book explores the rapidly expanding world of cross-border education. By offering practical strategies and forward-looking insights, it equips readers to navigate the complexities of TNE and leverage its potential to address pressing global challenges-a vital guide for shaping the future of international education.Author:...

Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao--China's high-stakes college admissions test--shapes that society and influences education debates in the United States. Each year, more than ten million students across China pin their hopes on the gaokao, the...

This dissertation compares the learning environment of elite military academies in the U.S. and Malaysia, namely the United States Military Academy, New York (West Point) and the Military Academy of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (MAM). The dissertation began as an investigation of the place of...

The island of Malta, a nonaligned power, received full independence from Great Britain in 1964. Malta's consequent classification as a developing nation compelled its government to initiate many changes in its political, social, and economic ideologies. Central to its efforts for redevelopment was a...

This book offers a powerful, post-colonial rejection of the so-called global 'learning crisis' that offers deficit models of the experiences, knowledges, identities and relationships of African children, eroding their agency and dignity and undermining their learning opportunities and potential.Three case studies of three accelerated...

Author: Joseph ZajdaISBN-10: 3031886143ISBN-13: 9783031886140Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2025Pages: 165Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Forms of institutional governance critically shape the culture, creativity and academic outcomes of higher education. The book provides a new, updated and research based account of the changing face of the governance of British higher education. Historically,...

For over 200 years, legislators, educators, and public-minded citizens have debated how to govern public schools. This book reviews these debates and discusses racial integration, ethnicity, social class, vouchers, charter, magnet and private schools in the United States, the former German Democratic Republic and...

This book analyzes the concept of sustainability as it applies to internationalization of higher education. The topic of sustainability is relatively well explored in the context of higher education. It is becoming increasingly discussed by scholarly societies in international and comparative education. However, there...

This book brings together stories of the green schools movement ((Eco Schools, Enviroschools, Green Schools, Sustainable Schools, ResourceSmart Schools etc) in several countries around the world, with a focus on the impact of the movement on the development and implementation of education for sustainable...

'The School Food Revolution is an important book that deserves success.' Journal of Organic Systems 'A great new book that describes how 'the humble school meal' can be considered as 'a litmus test of... government's political commitment to sustainable development.' Peter Riggs, Director, Forum...

This is a visionary, consciousness-raising book that asks us to rethink the purposes and design of study away and study abroad experiences in the context of a broadened set of global threats, including climate disruption, soaring inequality, ecosystem breakdown, the dying off of distinct...

Adventures in Teaching is the essential guide for both novice and experienced educators embarking on international teaching journeys. From navigating job searches to thriving in diverse educational contexts, this groundbreaking resource provides educators with practical tools, critical insights, and exercises to ensure a successful...

In this book, Dieter Lenzen analyzes the world's three major educational systems: the Continental-European, the Atlantic (Anglo-American) and the East Asian. Distancing himself from the current trend towards the economically driven Anglo-American system of education, the author proposes an alternative model, "a university of...

Using a capability approach as an analytical framework, this timely volume examines how access to higher education, enabled through private universities, can transform students' lives and contribute to human development in low-income countries in the Global South.Providing new insights into the contribution of the...

See how the iSTEP Institute has transformed teacher preparation around the world. The contributors to this volume document and analyze the evolution of an international, organic network of collaborating teacher educators. Educators at the Stanford Teacher Education Program launched the iSTEP Institute, a professional...

Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the United Nations, civil society, grassroots educators), both of these fields consider content, processes, and educational...

When Jacob loses his young daughter Jessica in a tragic accident, his world is shattered. Grappling with overwhelming grief and struggling to make sense of Jessica's untimely death, Jacob finds himself questioning his lifelong Christian faith and embarking on a profound spiritual journey to...

This book brings together diverse experiences at all levels of language education in Korea, from government to public and private education to business and industry, to identify the origin of the processes of change and the factors influencing their success. The chapters are written...

This volume explores the global flow of competence-based education, curricular policy, and frameworks for instructional practice. It will be a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of education.Author: Kathryn Anderson-LevittISBN-10: 103256380XISBN-13: 9781032563800Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2023Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.44d

As the number of international students in Chinese higher education increases steadily, this volume is one of the first to focus on their many and varied experiences. With contributions focusing on such topics as intercultural adaptation, soft power and interculturality, language learning strategies and...

This edited book offers diverse perspectives on the professional development of faculty, primarily at K-12 international schools. Contributions consider the many and complex facets of professional development - from administrative factors, assessment and accreditation issues to student needs through a diversity, equity and inclusion...

This book's primary aims is to welcome you to discover the characteristics of the international and multidisciplinary online education in Ukraine. It objective is to present the development of online teaching and learning environment in Ukraine. In particular, this book emphasizes how the online...

This book's primary aims is to welcome you to discover the characteristics of the international and multidisciplinary online education in Ukraine. It objective is to present the development of online teaching and learning environment in Ukraine. In particular, this book emphasizes how the online...

Following Paulo Freire and his concept of pedagogy of hope, this open access book explores the educational role of hope as an approach to learning about global issues in different areas of the world. Climate change, racism, and the COVID-19 pandemic have shown more...

The book is based on African research and reviews on school leadership preparation and development, taking stock of where the field is in this geographical region and what lies ahead. The exclusive focus on sub-Saharan African countries is driven by the desire to foreground...

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Havana's secondary schools, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values is a remarkable ethnography, charting the government's attempts to transform a future generation of citizens. While Cuba's high literacy rate is often lauded, the little-known dropout rates among teenagers receive less...

Author: Myint Swe KhineISBN-10: 9811924023ISBN-13: 9789811924026Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2023Pages: 587Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.21d

With a stronger focus on the teacher's role and emerging alternative pedagogies in diverse settings, this thoroughly updated second edition draws on research by scholars from the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Comparative and International Education offers an overview of...

This open access book brings together leading global education (GE) practitioners and academics to, for the first time, provide a history of GE in Ireland.Ireland is regarded as a leader in the field of GE worldwide, with a rich history going back to the...

Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational...

There is growing awareness that global learning is not confined to university, credit-bearing off campus international programs, and that institutions of higher learning have, up until now, conceived of global education too narrowly. Global learning through study abroad and off-campus domestic study fits into...

This edited collection challenges the common preoccupation with knowledge acquisition and academic achievement by comparing the aims and cultural beliefs which drive education in different countries throughout the world.Through case studies from countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Europe, the authors present how...

This book traces the process of producing testimonio with the children of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), an insurgent group during Peru's internal war (1980-2000). It examines how the group navigates post-war struggles over memory while dealing with the 'children of terrorists' stigma....

Thomas Chiu's book is one of the first to look at the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on K-12 education in two areas: AI education, and AI in education. AI education refers to teaching AI, and AI in education refers to using AI to...

This book casts a refreshingly new light on current literature on school leadership, which has predominantly been viewed through Western lenses. Accordingly, key concepts and theories on leadership and school leadership have primarily been generated from thinking and research in the Western sphere. This...

Childhood Education in Islam and Christianity discusses issues of religious education that the two world religions Christianity and Islam offer to their respective young children as religion or faith that lead beliefs, virtues and lifestyle for the faithful beginning in the child's tender age....

From the bestselling author of Unschooled, an exploration of new, low-cost K-12 learning models that favor individualized, learner-centered education Across the United States, parents, teachers, administrators, policymakers, and ordinary citizens are increasingly frustrated by the rigidity and standardization of modern schooling, and they are...

This book introduces major themes surrounding comparative and international education, giving you a nuanced understanding of key debates, and thinkers, and the tools necessary to conduct comparisons using secondary sources. Social, economic, historical, and cultural factors are examined in order to investigate the varied...

Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Jacqueline Kirk, this book takes a penetrating look at the challenges of delivering quality education to the approximately 39 million out-of-school children around the world who live in situations affected by violent conflict. With chapters by...

How do we reconcile individual student needs with the demands of school, district, and national education programs? What are school-based professionals to do in situations where it is impossible to prioritize all students equally? A pair of new parents in Hong Kong deliberate which...