Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
About the Book Series
This is a series that offers a global platform to engage scholars in continuous academic debate on key challenges and the latest thinking on issues in the fast growing field of International and Comparative Education.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
A Feminist Autoethnography of Language Education and Childhood on Slavic Soil and Stateside
1st Edition
By Margaret Berg
November 19, 2025
This volume replicates and offers a fresh reconceptualization of the 1970 comparative education book Two Worlds of Childhood, U.S. and U.S.S.R. researched and written by Urie Bronfenbrenner who later drew on the experiences to propose a comprehensive framework of human development: Bronfenbrenner's...
Critically Assessing the Reputation of Waldorf Education in Academia and the Public: Early Endeavours of Expansion, 1919–1955
1st Edition
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By Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann, Marc Fabian Buck
August 29, 2025
The first of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic, this volume gathers international perspectives to critically assess how Waldorf education has been perceived and discussed in both public and academic arenas. The book thereby challenges the historical concept of Waldorf education as...
Australian Student Mobility to the Indo-Pacific Through the New Colombo Plan: Impacts, Challenges, and Regional Engagement
1st Edition
By Ly Thi Tran, Huyen Bui, Diep Thi Bich Nguyen
August 27, 2025
This book focuses on Australian students’ engagement and learning in the Indo-Pacific through the New Colombo Plan (NCP), the Australian Government’s flagship initiative for student mobility and public diplomacy. By analysing the experiences, tensions, and both individual and societal impacts of ...
Rethinking Centre-Periphery Assumptions in the History of Education: Exchanges among Brazil, USA, and Europe
1st Edition
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By Diana Gonçalves Vidal, Vivian Batista da Silva
July 30, 2025
This collection encompasses a period that spans two centuries, in which Brazil serves as a point of departure and of arrival for the analyses of circuits that, intertwined within the national borders, stimulate the reflection about international transits, hybridizations, and appropriations in a ...
The Role of Coloniality, Decoloniality, and Education in Shaping Perspectives on Extremism: Exploring Perceptions among Students in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Helal Hossain Dhali
July 30, 2025
This book extends a comprehensive overview of the treatment of extremism in education in Bangladesh, using a study of perceptions among students to explore proactive measures for the prevention of various types and forms of extremism prevalent among youth. It offers a critical, holistic, and ...
International(-ised) Students in East and Southeast Asia: Towards a New Conceptualisation
1st Edition
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By Aneta Hayes, Sihui Wang
June 27, 2025
This book presents new narratives about international students undertaking transnational education (TNE) in East and Southeast Asia. With contributions from leading experts in international higher education, each chapter provides important critical arguments about the outdatedness of traditional ...
Transnational Education: Bridging Borders, Transforming Futures
1st Edition
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By Rozilini Mary Fernandez-Chung, Ranjit Singh Gill
June 24, 2025
This book explores the rapidly expanding world of cross-border education. As international student numbers have surged from 1.6 million in 2000 to over 6.4 million in 2022, transnational education (TNE) has become a transformative force in global higher education. This volume delves into how ...
Academic Mobility through the Lens of Language and Identity, Global Pandemics, and Distance Internationalization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Tamilla Mammadova
April 14, 2025
This book takes a critical perspective on international academic mobility and contextualizes this mobility through different key factors including global pandemics, identity construction, intercultural sensitivity, and cultural engagement. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the volume investigates...
Educating for Peace through Countering Violence: Strategies in Curriculum and Instruction
1st Edition
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By Candice Carter, Raj Kumar Dhungana
April 13, 2025
This book advances knowledge about the implementation of peace and non-violence strategies in education that counter violence. Addressing both hidden and direct violence, it examines the harm to wellbeing and learning through a unique exploration of the role of teachers, and confronts the roots of ...
Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy in Central and Eastern European Countries: Critical and Pragmatic Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Katarzyna Żyminkowska, Katarzyna Ożańska-Ponikwia
January 30, 2025
This insightful edited collection brings new insights and a novel approach to entrepreneurship education by situating findings within the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, exploring pedagogies associated with both academic and professional entrepreneurship to further the field. Drawing...
Learning for Livelihoods in the Global South: Theoretical and Methodological Lenses on Skills and the Informal Sector
1st Edition
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By Lesley Powell, Adam Cooper, Trent Brown, Simon McGrath
December 23, 2024
This edited volume explores how youth and informal sector workers in the Global South are pioneering learning and livelihoods that exist at the intersections of, and beyond, the boundaries of the state, market, and other formal institutions. Underpinned by research undertaken in the Global South, ...
Challenging the Internationalisation of Education: A Critique of the Global Gaze
1st Edition
By Lucy Bailey
November 29, 2024
This book presents a searing critique of the global take on education, questioning why the idea that education should be international has come to dominate the field and positing that the discourse of internationalisation has altered the way we conceptualise education. Using diverse examples from ...