Education - Comparative

This book foregrounds the voices of women in educational leadership to draw on the power of diverse perspectives and to create an environment that better embraces a broad range of leadership styles. Chapters explore formal and informal women's educational leadership practices and examine the...

This book examines the idea of opening education to the outside world in China since post-COVID-19. It investigates the historical development of international education development in China and explores the internationalization of education system from various dimensions. It also discusses the history of studying...

Canadian Education Law and Global Comparative Studies for Teachers and Administrators is a comprehensive and essential resource that addresses the legal issues and challenges faced by educators in Canada and provides a comparative perspective on global education law. With the increasing demands from parents...

World Education Patterns in the Global South surveys the educational responses and new educational landscapes being developed as a consequence of the powerful global forces that are demanding change within the Global South's educational contexts, including Central and South-East Asia, Latin America, and the...

This book explores the concept of intercultural competence, focusing specifically on education. Intercultural competence can vary depending on the field of research or the context of application and has therefore developed over recent decades. As the world becomes increasingly global intercultural competence has become...

This book showcases the quality work that Latin American researchers have done on transition to school in Latin American countries by offering the English-speaking world, first-hand access to some Latin American transitions research, practices, and policies. This book shows the work carried out in...

Introduction.- Chapter 1 Indigenous pathways and transitions into Higher Education: An Introduction.- Policy and Policy Issues.- Chapter 2 Understanding the nexus between equity and Indigenous higher education policy agendas in Australia.- Chapter 3 What do we know about community engagement in Indigenous education contexts...

This edited volume presents the results of a European research project - 'CHILD-UP' (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading Policies of Participation), which supports the hybrid integration of children with migration backgrounds into schools across Europe.Author: Claudio BaraldiISBN-10: 103237781XISBN-13: 9781032377810Publisher:...

This volume chronicles changes and issues facing institutional and individual academic activities and norms following the Covid-19 pandemic, forecasting their impacts on the ways in which internationalization at the post-secondary level has responded in practice to new realities, exigencies, and possibilities.Author: Alexander W. WisemanISBN-10:...

This volume consists of the proceedings of an international conference on cognition and instruction in history. The papers cover several areas: historical narratives and history teaching; the use of texts, documents and images in learning history; and historical explanation and understanding.Author: Mario CarreteroISBN-10: 0713040408ISBN-13:...

Author: Matthew J. SchuelkaISBN-10: 981101647XISBN-13: 9789811016479Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2016Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.58h x 6.25w x 0.80d

This Open Access volume by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) is an outcome of the ICMI Study 24 and gives a status-quo of school mathematics reform around the world and what we can learn from this movement. Each theme and section of...

Education for Refugees and Forced (Im)Migrants Across Time and Context follows the journey of refugee and forced (im)migrant youths as their educational needs and opportunities vary according to resettlement communities' immigration policies, dominant culture and language, geography, and other key factors.Author: Alexander W. WisemanISBN-10:...

There is a growing global interest in reimagining higher education ecosystems. Whether or not this is a recognition of apparent existential challenges or not, aspiring higher education administrators, faculty, and trustees need to have an understanding of the varying types of higher education institutions...

This volume uses case studies and students lived experiences to document the impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) on international students and explores future challenges and opportunities for student mobility within higher education.Author: Krishna BistaISBN-10: 0367686465ISBN-13: 9780367686468Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Co-published with AIEA. This new edition addresses the myriad changes across all aspects of international education, each chapter addressing to the extent possible the reality of the present in which they were written and offering some insights for the future.Author: Darla K. DeardorffISBN-10: 1642671134ISBN-13:...

This book brings together English translations of thirteen research papers published in recent years by Chinese historians, sociologists, and educators. These papers investigate various dimensions of the legacy of China's historic The Christian Universities which continues to inspire higher education reform in China even...

Academics and practitioners examine the developing field of integrated education in conflicted societies, where children who would normally be educated apart are deliberately educated together. They draw on a range of theoretical and practical frameworks, providing numerous case studies from Northern Ireland, Israel, Macedonia,...

The book ""Past, Present, and Future of Legal English"" is an engrossing and all-encompassing exploration that delves into the captivating evolution of the language that molds the legal profession. Through a historical analysis, readers are invited on a fascinating journey, tracing the origins of...

Over the past fifty years, new theoretical approaches to comparative and international education have transformed it as an academic field. We know that fields of research are often shaped by "collectives" of researchers and students converging at auspicious times throughout history. Part institutional memoir...

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...

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

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:...