Education - Comparative

In his new book, Zachary W. Oberfield investigates the question of whether charter schools cultivate different teaching climates from those found in traditional public schools. To answer this question, Oberfield examined hundreds of thousands of teacher surveys from across the nation. The result is...

What can a study of international film contribute to our understanding of education in a globalized context? How can such an exploration further push the boundaries of comparative and international education (CIE) as an academic field? In addressing these questions, Irving Epstein brings together...

This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements....

This edited volume combines reflections, methods, and experiences from a globally diverse group of scholars to investigate the meaning, value, and effectiveness of the pedagogy of the Community of Philosophical Enquiry (CoPE) - derived from or in conversation with Lipman and Sharp's Philosophy for...

This collection of peace education efforts in conflict and post-conflict societies brings together an international group of scholars to offer the very latest theoretical and pedagogical developments. Rather than focus on ad hoc peace education efforts this book investigates the need for long term,...

This Open Access volume brings together contributions to the research on coherence in teacher education from a transnational perspective. Using theoretical-conceptional, empirical as well as instructional approaches, the contributions explore structural, curricular, conceptual and personnel dimensions of coherence. Within the EU Erasmus +-funded project...

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...

This book combines assemblage theory and policy mobilities to inform the study of comparative and international education (CIE), focusing on education policy and how such policy moves are enacted. These approaches challenge taken-for granted and universalizing concepts in policy research and policy work in...

Academics' International Teaching Journeys provides personal narratives of nine international social science academics in foreign countries as they adapt and develop their teaching. The team of international contributors provide an invaluable resource for other academics who may be exposed to similar situations and may...

In "The Path of Light: How Education Defeats Darkness," Dr. Anton Anthony Ed.S, Th.D., takes you on an inspiring journey into the heart of education's transformative power. This book isn't just about teaching facts and figures; it's about lighting the way from ignorance to...

The notion of academic freedom dates back to the creation of universities and has long been understood to be central to their vocation. This freedom has come under attack by different actors throughout its history. In the current context, rising threats to democracy and...

This volume explores theories and practices of decolonizing education, drawing on international perspectives from scholars across the globe to engage new knowledges and build solidarities across different spaces. Decolonization is an ongoing process in which educators, community members, and practitioners alike have a stake...

This book illustrates the multiple roles of textbooks as victim, transformer, and accomplice to conflict by introducing the Intersecting Roles of Education in Conflict (IREC) framework for use in the research, development, production, distribution, and dissemination of textbooks and learning materials. The framework illustrates...

This volume offers a timely collection of research-based studies that engage with contemporary conditions of precarity across an array of locations, exploring how it is understood, experienced, and acted upon by educators in schools, universities, and nonformal educational spaces.Author: Karen MonkmanISBN-10: 1032192240ISBN-13: 9781032192246Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

This book examines the pros and cons of the internationalization of higher education institutions, which is an important feature of modern universities. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of universities and an important input to the assessment of the internationalization of higher...

This international book provides a series of viewpoints on academic integrity from the perspective of social sciences. It brings together multiple aspects of academic integrity, but with the consistent theme of being at a level of analysis that considers people and their place in...

Author: Danielle FalkISBN-10: 1529234697ISBN-13: 9781529234695Publisher: Bristol University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/26/2024Pages: 192Format: Hardcover

This book explores the impacts on personal and professional, local and global forms of belonging in educational spaces amidst rapid changes shaped by globalization. Encouraging readers to consider the idea of belonging as an educational goal as much as a guiding educational strategy, this...

This book explores how education can be used as a tool to promote sustainability practices as the world faces huge challenges related to climate change and public health. The chapters consider all types of literacy approaches that fall under the umbrella of Education for...

This book marks a departure from traditional assumptions concerning the deficiencies of Chinese international students in terms of learning and adapting. It employs phenomenological narrative inquiry and a small culture approach to investigate the evolved, fluid experience of pursuing a graduate degree in the...

Author: M. K. BacchusISBN-10: 0889202311ISBN-13: 9780889202313Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 359Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

This book presents the core concepts of geographical education as a means of understanding global issues from a spatial perspective. It treats education, supported by high standards, approaches, methodologies, and resources, as essential in exploring the interactions of the world's human and environmental systems...

A Doll's House Comparative Workbook HL16 is to be used when studying Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House for the Comparative Study component of the Leaving Certificate Higher Level examination in 2016. This workbook covers the modes of Cultural Context, Literary Genre and General...

A Doll's House Comparative Workbook 2017 is designed to be used when studying A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, for the Comparative Study component of the Leaving Certificate Higher Level English examination in 2017. This A4 workbook contains 132 questions, covering the modes of...

In this collection, Champagne and Stauss demonstrate how the rise of Native studies in American and Canadian universities exists as an extraordinary achievement in higher education. In the face of historically assimilationist agendas, institutional racism, and structural opposition by Western educational institutions, collaborative programs...

This open access book critically explores how education, migration and development intersect and interact to shape people, communities, societies, ideas, values, and action at local, national and international levels. Written by leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe, the book introduces the reader...

Transnational Perspectives on Democracy, Citizenship, Human Rights, and Peace Educationconsiders ways in which national systems of education could work together, across borders, to determine the meaning and significance of the principles of democracy, human rights and peace education, in ways that are comparative and...

Educational institutions within the post-soviet independent states of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have seen dramatic changes and educational reforms since their independence. Rapid technological changes, economic globalization, and increased migration and mobility of students have led Central Asian states to reform their education systems, within...

This book provides a glimpse into today's school system. Readers are challenged to question the school's purpose through a more human lens. Author: Latasha D. HoltISBN-10: 1475869843ISBN-13: 9781475869842Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2023Pages: 134Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44dReview Citation(s): Choice...

1. New Education: An Experimental Era2. The Dewey School, USA3. Caetano de Campos Kindergarten, Brazil4. The Experimental Stations and Psychoanalytic Laboratory, Soviet Russia5. The Malting House School, England6. The Hietzing School, Austria7. Transcontinental ReflectionsAuthor: Alessandra Arce Hai, Helen May, Kristen NawrotzkiISBN-10: 3030509664ISBN-13: 9783030509668Publisher: Palgrave...

Western Linguistics has come a long way since its beginnings with the grammar of Classical Greek attributed to Dionysios Thrax. Unfortunately, during this journey a cross-roads was reached and a decision had to be made. Instead of taking the path of scientific principles which...

This book discusses national school policy reforms in a number of key European countries and shows how these are framed in transnational collaborations that meet with national particularities and contestations. It gives an overview of school policy developments that represents the diversity of Europe...

This edited volume highlights the deep issues of the educational markets and school segregation from its origins to its effects. The book discusses both global trends as well as focalized examples. It's based on a comprehensive review of existing literature and an in-depth analysis...

This edited collection presents a Nordic perspective on intensified discussions concerning digitalization and digital competence in the current trends of educational work.Author: Sara WillermarkISBN-10: 103240986XISBN-13: 9781032409863Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2023Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building. Using nine comparative case studies from four continents, the book elaborates a theoretical understanding of nationalism from the perspectives of comparative education...

In many countries the school curriculum oscillates between focusing on traditional subjects and focusing on skills that are linked to the needs of the 21st-century digital age. Rosamund Sutherland argues against such a skills-based curriculum, maintaining that, from a social justice perspective, the priority...

Featuring in-depth examinations of concepts of knowing, learning, and education from a range of cultures worldwide, this book offers a rich theory of indigenous concepts of education, their relation to Western concepts, and their potential for creating education that articulates the aspirations of communities...

This book provides a glimpse into today's school system. Readers are challenged to question the school's purpose through a more human lens. Author: Latasha D. HoltISBN-10: 1475869851ISBN-13: 9781475869859Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2023Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31dReview Citation(s): Choice...

Using the major theories of humor as a point of departure, Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19: Bosnia in Comparative Perspective argues for the expanded use of humor as pedagogy in Bosnian tertiary education, unfazed by the pandemic infections...

Tracing the historical development of partnerships between schools, universities, and communities, P-20 Partnerships: A Critical Examination of the Past and Future provides educators and policymakers with a framework for understanding how partnerships originated and their potential for the future. This book connects Dewey's lab...

A former professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fred M. Hayward is a specialist in higher education and comparative politics in the developing world.Author: Fred M. HaywardISBN-10: 1438478461ISBN-13: 9781438478463Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2021Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h...

"Applebee's central point, the need to teach 'knowledge in context, ' is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum. His experience and knowledge give his voice an authority that makes many of the current proposals on both the left and right seem...

Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Redefining the Role of the University and the Social Sciences Within the Emergent Structures of Society 5.0Chapter 3. STEAM education in the case of engineering (Empowerment Informatics - Tsukuba University, Japan) and the art studies Chapter 4. Cultivating Future Competencies...

This book investigates the international school policy reform in China from various perspectives. In recent years, international schools, international classes, international departments, and various international education projects have emerged in the field of education in China. This book explores and analyzes the idea of...

This book explores the integral role that student affairs professionals play in the success of international students at higher education institutions in the US. International student support has often been thought of as the principal responsibility of international student services offices, but research suggests...

This edited collection brings together the work of researchers and educators from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Colombia, Costa Rica, Portugal, and Mexico on education, pedagogy, and research from a queer perspective. It offers a space for the dissemination and development of new lines of analysis...

1. Anadi2. Anitya3. Jian'ai4. Ilm5. ShoshinAuthor: Kalyani UnkuleISBN-10: 3030281140ISBN-13: 9783030281144Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2020Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.35d

This comprehensive study of the Japanese education system follows the Japanese child from the kindergarten, through the progressively more arduous and competitive environments of the elementary, middle and high schools, to the relative relaxation, even hedonism, of university life. Drawing on numerous surveys and...

Explores the rich potential of Confucianism in American and Chinese classrooms of the twenty-first century.Author: Xiufeng LiuISBN-10: 1438470029ISBN-13: 9781438470023Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2019Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

This open access book presents a systematic investigation into internationally comparable data gathered in ICILS 2013. It identifies differences in female and male students' use of, perceptions about, and proficiency in using computer technologies. Teachers' use of computers, and their perceptions regarding the benefits...