Educational systems and structures

This book explores the meanings, experiences, and challenges faced by Black women faculty that are either on the tenure track or have earned tenure.

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET).

This book constitutes a valuable manual for young and seasoned business researchers alike, and provides a comprehensive summary for the whole research journey.

This volume provides alternatives for tackling existing empirical, methodological, and analytical challenges.

This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan.

This volume presents the impacts of international higher education on citizen diplomacy.

This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education.

This volume examines transnational educational transfer between China and the League of Nations during the interwar period.

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.

Education needs new ways to prepare individuals and societies for the multitude of changing challenges in the twenty-first century.

This book draws on five philosophers from the continental tradition - Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Ranciere - in order to "e;think about thinking"e; and offer new and surprising answers to the question: How can we educate students to think creatively and critically?

In this book,  Al-Kohlani examines fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010 in response to "e;religious theory"e; that associates certain religions with gender inequality and "e;modernization theory"e; which downplays the role of religion on gender inequity and associates gender inequality with socioeconomic factors.

This book explores the complexities of community colleges and global counterparts by focusing on critical analysis of governance, leadership, and mission.

This book is a comparative study of the endeavors to create a socialist system of higher education in the Soviet Union under Stalin and in China under Mao.

This book is a critical-cultural evaluation of educational technology adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa, including projects such as the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child).

This book addresses issues related to ethics and the scholarship of teaching and learning, and pays special attention to ethical concerns and experiences that have arisen from engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) work.

This book brings together a range of scholars from 10 different countries to address the contemporary state of play in national standard language education - i.

This edited volume explores how undergraduate research and research-based teaching is being implemented in countries around the world.

This book identifies the cultural and moral foundations of country-specific educational governance and school leadership and presents the principles of justice and the diversity of common goods that guide leadership practices in schools.

This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid.

This edited volume represents a collective contribution to the current debates on developing university research capacity.

This book deals with the importance of interculturality in teacher education and training.

This edited volume examines new ways of teaching mathematics through a cross-cultural reciprocal learning project between sister schools in Canada and China.

This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa's formal educational systems.

This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society.

This book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement.

This edited book addresses a range of aspects of internationalization in vocational education and training (VET) in different countries.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of research at interface between History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS) and Science Teaching in Ibero-America.

This book explores how Australian secondary schools prepare their students for global citizenship.

The world is not an equal place.

This book presents the important role of mathematics in the teaching of financial education.

This proceedings volume brings together the results of a corporate discussion on research, academic teaching and education in the field of business and economics in the context of globalization.

This book introduces the specifics of mathematics lesson study with regard to regional/national particularities, discussing the methodological and theoretical tools that can be used to pursue research on lesson study (its forms, contents, effects etc.

This book advances an in-depth, comprehensive analysis of flagship universities in Africa - the largest, most selective, and most prestigious universities on the continent.

This book contrasts authentic approaches to education with classroom practices based primarily on standards external to the individuals who are supposed to learn.

This volume brings together diverse thinkers and practitioners on Participatory Action Research (PAR) and educational development in South Asia.

This edited volume offers empirical, evaluative, and philosophical perspectives on the question of higher education as a human right in the Asia Pacific.

This book has been designed to add to the study and experience of early childhood ideas and experience in an international context.

This volume analyses the policymaking, expectations, implementation, progress, and outcomes of early language learning in various education policy contexts worldwide.

This book argues for the importance of literature studies using the historical debate between the disinterested disciplines ("e;art for art's sake"e;) and utilitarian or productive disciplines.

Winner of the 2019 AERA Division B (Curriculum Studies) Outstanding Book AwardThis book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy.

This book focuses on the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) in everyday urban life: in particular, how and why people develop different types of social capital in their guanxi networks and the role of guanxi in school choice.

This book examines the relation between the phenomenon of globalization, changes in the lifeworld of young people and the development of specific youth cultures.

This book examines the impact of internationalization, student mobility and transnational workforce mobility on the changing nature of teacher work and teacher professional learning in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector.

This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it).

This book explores how educators can realize the potential of critical place-based pedagogy.

This book examines the idea of 'good education' which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component.

This book offers a unique blend of writing from a broad range of international perspectives, showing interdisciplinary research approaches to decolonising curriculum knowledge.

This book traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle.

This book focuses on the intertwined relationships between globalisation, nation-building, education, and reform as manifested throughout the modern history of Brunei Darussalam, an Islamic monarchy located on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.