Education - Comparative

This book explores how international undergraduate and graduate students navigate their higher educational institutional (HEI) experiences and employability prospects in both Global North and Global South universities. The chapter authors examine how students from the Global South use their agency to apply their HEI...

Exploring research and pedagogy on second language writing, this volume focuses on issues concerning policy decisions affecting foreign students.Author: Diane Belcher, George BraineISBN-10: 156750115XISBN-13: 9781567501155Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1995Pages: 442Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.05h x 6.12w x 0.91d

At the heart of this book is the rapid pace of change, the need to invest in and create good jobs and support the learning that this entails. It brings together a range of socio-cultural perspectives to examine the hard issues in relation to...

This timely volume documents the immediate, global impacts of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on teaching and learning in higher education. Focusing on student and faculty experiences of online and distance education, the text provides reflections on novel initiatives, unexpected challenges, and lessons learned.Author: Roy...

Takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver. The underlying premise of this profound, engaging book is that international education can be a transforming intercultural experience for hosts as...

1. The FIRSTMATH Study: Concepts, Methods and Strategies for Comparative International Research 2. Methods and Strategies developed in the FIRTSMATH Study 3. Understanding International Contexts of Preparation, Teaching and Learning 4. Design and Development of International Mathematics Assessments for Teacher and Pupils 5. Design...

This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education. The resulting practice of ancestral computing for sustainability holds the power to mitigate the destructive forces of the field, while...

2021 PROSE Award Finalist - 'Reference Works'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...

This open access book analyses intercultural dialogue as a concept, policy and ideal in European education policy documentation. The core European transnational organizatons - the Council of Europe and the European Union - have actively promoted policies to engender inclusive societies and respond to...

International Perspectives in Higher Education offers a balanced perspective on how different countries approach key policies and what the United States can learn from those programs. Jason D. Delisle and Alex Usher have gathered a diverse group of experts to examine systems across the...

​Part 1 IntroductionChapter 1 Introduction to Science Education and the Belt and Road Part 2 Arab and African CountriesChapter 2 Science education in ALGERIAChapter 3 Science education in EgyptChapter 4 Science education in JORDANChapter 5 Science education in KENYAChapter 6 Science education in LibyaChapter...

Author: Myint Swe KhineISBN-10: 9811697841ISBN-13: 9789811697845Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2022Pages: 992Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.94lbsSize: 9.80h x 6.20w x 2.04d

This volume Student Support Services: Exploring impact on student engagement, experience and learning, covers a wide and diverse range of higher education contexts to explore the current state and the future of student support services. The central focus for all the chapters is about...

This open access book presents the major outcomes of the fourth edition of the Future of Higher Education - Bologna Process Researchers Conference (FOHE-BPRC 4) which was held in January 2020 and which has already established itself as a landmark in the European higher...

Author: Manja KlemenčičISBN-10: 3031093992ISBN-13: 9783031093999Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2022Pages: 339Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d

Author: Maik ArnoldISBN-10: 3031180372ISBN-13: 9783031180378Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2023Pages: 422Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.06h x 5.83w x 0.47d

The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia commissioned a national study to review the overall education system of Ethiopia in 2016 that resulted in the Education and Training Roadmap outlining the unwavering commitment towards transformative changes in the national education system. Among...

This book contributes to the studies on learning processes occurring outside "traditional" socialization settings such as family and school, by analysing civic and political participation and learning experiences. In this perspective, the book delves into the connections between the concepts of learning and participation...

Lesson Study has been shown to be a systematic way of building teachers' knowledge by allowing them to share their knowledge with each other. While much has been written about the benefits of Lesson Study in science and mathematics education, this book analyses its...

Education needs new ways to prepare individuals and societies for the multitude of changing challenges in the twenty-first century. In today's world--characterized by digitization, increasing speed, and complexity--design thinking has established itself as a powerful approach to human-centered innovation that can help address complicated...

Education is widely recognized as a fundamental human right, yet the nature of the right remains unclear. Is it an entitlement to go to school, to acquire particular forms of knowledge or develop particular skills or attributes? And why exactly is education so important...

This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. It critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of current higher education and policy reforms, and illustrates...

This book is a collection of the leading scientific studies, which elaborate on the unique specifics of Central Asia and Russia and dwell on the potential and current contribution of digital higher education to the preservation of these specifics and adaptation of universities to...

This volume offers critical analysis of national school reform policies intended to align with global agendas to promote educational quality and equity. By uniquely foregrounding the need for education reform to nurture child well-being alongside traditional measures of academic achievement, the book identifies common...

Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic prosperity of nations. It is also an intensely political realm of public policy that is heavily shaped by power and special interests. Yet political scientists rarely study education, and education researchers...

This book examines the alignment of residential educational aims and university educational aims in order to provide guidance for implementing university-specific residential educational aims. Grounded in a new theoretical model of residential education, Residential Education in university probes into how university students adopt transformative...

This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this. Examining the case of system-wide reform processes centering on teaching a thinking-rich curriculum, it...

This open access book addresses the evasive problem of why truly effective educational innovation on a wide scale is so difficult to achieve, and what leaders may do about this. Examining the case of system-wide reform processes centering on teaching a thinking-rich curriculum, it...

This book explores the challenges and precarity of higher education post-pandemic, explicitly focusing on higher education in emerging countries. Looking beyond the pandemic, the editors and contributors provide a holistic view of the residual legacies of global health crises like COVID-19 in developing countries....

How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a...

This book demonstrates how processes of globalization (economic, cultural, socio-political) are creating new possibilities and inequities and are thereby creating corresponding roles for adult education and learning in the South (Africa, Asia, South America) that are embedded in multiple political, economic and cultural projects...

1. Introduction.- 2. Student-Centeredness as a Global Pedagogy?.- 3. Power and Pedagogy: Historical Perspective.- 4. Political Economy of Education Policy-making.- 5. Local Responses to the Policy.- 6. A Logic That Governs Teaching and Learning.- 7. Conclusion.Author: Takayo OgisuISBN-10: 9811667527ISBN-13: 9789811667527Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2023Pages: 154Format:...

Author: Fred Dervin, Sude, Mei YuanISBN-10: 9811684944ISBN-13: 9789811684944Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2023Pages: 161Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.39d

This book explores emerging populations of mobile international students in order to consider innovative and inclusive approaches for a more equitable and socially just higher education for new generations of international students. It offers critical reflections on the intersections of race, place, and space...

This book demonstrates that the COVID 19 pandemic asks for a a global approach to bioethics. it describes how the pandemic affects the experience of being in a world that is intrinsically characterized by global connectivity. It demonstrates that a moral vision is necessary...

This book brings together voices and perspectives from across the world and draws in a new generation of curriculum scholars to provide fresh insight into the contemporary field. By opening up Curriculum Studies with contributions from twelve countries--including every continent--the book outlines and exemplifies...

Based on research from the threat-assessment community, this important resource addresses the challenge of assessing concerning online communication, written narratives, and artistic works at schools, colleges, and universities. Drawing from the collective fields of law enforcement, law, and psychology, the authors expand on evidence-based...

This is an analysis of the complex links between Black America and Africa in the period of 1880 to 1945. It examines an extended white attempt to pattern politics and education in colonial Africa upon the example of the U.S. South. This export of...

Now in its fourth edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local remains the same groundbreaking book when it first debuted its collection of outstanding scholars in examining the changing transnational landscape of education. With the addition of new coeditor Stephen...

Globalization and the resulting internationalization of universities is driving change in teaching, learning, and what it means to be educated. This book provides exemplars of how the Communication discipline and curriculum are responding to the demands of globalization and contributing to the internationalization of...

This edited volume represents a collective contribution to the current debates on developing university research capacity. The chapters in this volume offer empirical case studies from post-Soviet countries which share a common history, common policies and practices of higher education. These commonalities make the...

Author: Toshifumi HirataISBN-10: 9811936919ISBN-13: 9789811936913Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2023Pages: 317Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Chapter 1. Fake Degrees and Credential Fraud, Contract Cheating, and Paper Mills: Overview and Historical Perspectives (Sarah Elaine Eaton & Jamie Carmichael).- Chapter 2. Admissions Fraud in Canadian Higher Education (Jamie Carmichael & Sarah Elaine Eaton).- Chapter 3. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow:...

The education of young people is context bound. This edited volume explores the contexts that characterise South and South East Asia and their influence on social studies education. There is not a single context across this broad geographical expanse, rather different religions, different political...

Since its successful performance in the PISA studies, at the latest, the Finnish education system has become the focus of public interest. In the media coverage of recent years, the Finnish school system has often been brought into play as a prime example of...

Author: David HungISBN-10: 9811660360ISBN-13: 9789811660368Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2023Pages: 359Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.79d

In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite status...

Author: Joseph ZajdaISBN-10: 303071585XISBN-13: 9783030715854Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2023Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d

Author: Ye Zhang, Xinrong ChenISBN-10: 9811926492ISBN-13: 9789811926495Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2023Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.35d

This book deals with teacher training for vocational education and training. In individual chapters next to the positions of relevant international organizations, donors and development banks, it also covers selected countries in their ways of shaping of Technical Vocational Education and Training and teacher...