Third International Handbook of Globalisation, Education and Policy Research

This handbook presents a global overview of current research in education and education policy reforms during the last decade. It provides an accessible, practical and comparative source of current research that examines the intersecting and diverse discourses of this important issue. It first examines globalisation, education and policy research and reforms in higher education, including cover…

INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION

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0-313-25638-1

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xv, 657p. :tab. ; 25 cm

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376 Int i

Schooling Around the World: DEBATES, CHALLENGES, AND PRACTICES

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1st

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0-205-45459-3

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384 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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370.9 Maz s

Comparative and International Education

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 for the Advancement of Science and the International Academy of Edu…

Euro-Asian Encounters on 21st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms

This book offers a geographically unique cultural comparative lens to examine the issue of transnational curriculum knowledge (re)production. Prompted by the ongoing competency-based curriculum reforms on a global scale, this book examines where global frameworks like the OECD’s core competency definitions are rooted and how they are borrowed, resisted, and/or re-contextualized in various Eur…

Globalisation and Comparative Education

This book focuses on discourses of globalisation in comparative education research and the politics of education reforms. It analyses and evaluates the shifts in methodological approaches to globalisation and education reforms, as reflected in comparative education research and their impact on education policy and pedagogy. The book covers topics such as globalisation and comparative education,…

The Lived Experience of Chinese International Students in the U.S.

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 U.S. at Blue Fountain University (a pseudonym for a mid-western university). Adopti…

The Autonomy Paradox: Teachers’ Perceptions of Self-Governance Across Europe

What do we mean when we speak about teacher autonomy? How free are teachers to go about their work? To answer these complex questions the authors asked thousands of teachers in four national contexts: in Finland, Ireland, Germany and Sweden, what they think autonomy looks like. The resulting book examines teacher autonomy theoretically and empirically, comparing teachers’ perceptions of …

Comparative Perspectives on School Textbooks

This book examines the discourses on nation-building, civic identity, minorities, and the formation of religious identities in school textbooks worldwide. It offers up-to-date, practical, and scholarly information on qualitative and mixed-method textbook analysis, as well as the broader context of critical comparative textbook and curriculum analyses in and across selected countries. The volume…

TEACHERS' EXPECTATIONS AND TEACHING REALITY

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0-415-00552-3

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vii, 320 p. : 25 cm

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370.94 Tea t

BRIDGES TO KNOWLEDGE: Foreign Students in Comparative Perspective

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ISBN/ISSN

0-226-03709-6

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258 p.; 25 cm.

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370.196 2 BRI