Education - Comparative

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...

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...

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...

This volume offers a cross-national analysis of teacher education programs designed to prepare teachers for work in middle level schools. The book showcases 15 detailed case studies of courses at institutions across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa-including from countries currently underrepresented in middle...

Drawing together major global studies from leading researchers, this book presents novel results, ideas, and developments from the world's largest collaborative study of student engagement in higher education. It builds insight into contemporary higher education practice, policy, and research. The chapters are written by...

Transformative Teaching Around the World compiles inspiring stories from Fulbright-awarded teachers whose instructional practices have impacted schools and communities globally. Whether thriving or struggling in their classrooms, instructing in person or online, or pushing for changes at high or low costs and risk levels,...

This Handbook presents an international collection of essays examining history education past and present. Framing recent curriculum reforms in Canada and in the United States in light of a century-long debate between the relationship between theory and practice, this collection contextualizes the debate by...

This book explores evidence-based practice in college science teaching. It is grounded in disciplinary education research by practicing scientists who have chosen to take Wieman's (2014) challenge seriously, and to investigate claims about the efficacy of alternative strategies in college science teaching. In editing...

This book examines how to create world-class, technology-oriented innovation in higher education in China. It also proposes a model in response to the demand for promoting scientific and technological advances and technological innovation in the Chinese higher education system. Moreover, the book explores key...

This book examines lifelong learning from different angles and follows the trajectory beginning with the expansive notion of lifelong education promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its subsequent version intended to better suit the neoliberal framework and make...

Featuring a foreword penned by Ambassador (Ret) and Professor Emeritus Horace G. Dawson, this volume articulates the significance of comparative and international education and affairs as experienced by elected Fellows of the Comparative and International Education Society-including some as Fellows of the American Association...

This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering...

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...

This book historically reconstructs the conservative and moderate liberals' views on governance, morality, and education within the context of La Regeneraci (1878-1903) in Colombian Panama. de la Guardia Wald explores the way political theories and ideologies, especially conservatism and positivism, shaped late nineteenth-century Panamanian...

This open access Springer Brief provides a systematic analysis of current trends and requirements in the areas of knowledge and competence in the context of the project "(A) Higher Education Digital (AHEAD)--International Horizon Scanning / Trend Analysis on Digital Higher Education." It examines the...

This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and...

This book investigates the market-driven transformation of the higher education sector and the response given by the translation programmes in the UK and China, two vastly different social and economic contexts. It provides an in-depth look at six selected case studies, critically analysing how...

Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Section 1 Ontological Framework of Chinese Characteristic Higher Education.- Chapter 1 Introduction on Ontological Dimension.- Chapter 2 Comparing Western and Eastern Ontological Philosophy of Higher Education.- Chapter 3 Ontologically Conceptualizing Chinese Characteristic Higher Education.- Section 2 Epistemological Framework of Chinese Characteristic Higher...

This book reflects the considerable appeal of the Anthropocene and the way it stimulates new discussions and ideas for reimagining sustainability and its place in education in these precarious times. The authors explore these new imaginings for sustainability using varying theoretical perspectives in order...

While the primary purpose of the book is a celebration of John's contributions to the field of measurement, a second and related purpose is to provide a useful resource. We believe that the combination of the developmental history and theory of the method, the...