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:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Identity, Inclusion, and the Career Pathways of International Students in North America: A Multidisciplinary Examination
1st Edition
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By Taiwo O. Soetan, Omonigho S. Umukoro, O.O. Odeh, David Hoa Khoa Nguyen
June 26, 2026
This collection brings together diverse scholarly perspectives on international education across the United States and Canada, with particular attention to the themes of identity, inclusion, and the prospects of international students. Chapters explore workforce integration and economic ...
Academic, Social, and Economic Realities for International Students in North America: A Multidisciplinary Examination
1st Edition
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By Taiwo O. Soetan, Omonigho S. Umukoro, O.O. Odeh, David Hoa Khoa Nguyen
April 14, 2026
This book presents a rigorous and multidisciplinary exploration of the complex academic, social, and economic realities that shape the experiences of international students. From historical mobility patterns and economic considerations to cultural adaptation and mental health challenges, this ...
Risk, Resilience, and Recovery Across Global Education Systems: The Long-Term Impact of Pandemic Reforms
1st Edition
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By Louis Volante, Kristof De Witte, Orazio Giancola, Luca Salmieri, Don A. Klinger
January 21, 2026
This book provides a critical review of the long-term effectiveness of education and social protection policies enacted by G10 countries in response to the global pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the most significant disruption to education systems since the devastation of World War II. ...
Scrutinising the Nordic Dimension in Education: Myths, Realities, and Integration Efforts in Europe’s Nordic Region
1st Edition
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By John Benedicto Krejsler
December 26, 2025
This edited volume scrutinises the Nordic dimension within education and how this notion affects, frames and sets direction for school and education in policy, practice and educational research. The book interrogates what unites and divides Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and analyses ...
Twenty-five Years of PISA in Southeast Asia: Cross-national Studies of Student Performance in Mathematics, Science, and Reading (2000-2025)
1st Edition
By I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan, Nina Maadad, Francisco Ben
December 23, 2025
This book is an illuminating journey through a quarter-century of education in Southeast Asia. It offers an intricate examination of student performance in core subjects – mathematics, science, and reading – while transcending conventional academic assessments to underscore the pivotal role of ...
Lifeworlds and Change in Palestinian Education: Liberating Learning
1st Edition
By Bill Williamson
November 28, 2025
This timely volume critically assesses the state of education in Palestine, re-framing the discourse on Israel-Palestine through the lens of education and arguing for a paradigm shift in the way education in the region is studied, managed and experienced. Foregrounding the voices, commentaries and ...
Policies and Pedagogies of Canadian Offshore Schools: Geopolitical Dynamics, Internationalization, and New Modalities of Coloniality
1st Edition
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By Fei Wang, André Elias Mazawi
November 27, 2025
This book critically examines the international, geopolitical, policy, institutional, and curricular challenges facing Canadian offshore school programs. Bringing together scholars and practitioners concerned with addressing the pedagogical, organizational, curriculum, and policy aspects of this ...
A Feminist Autoethnography of Language Education and Childhood on Slavic Soil and Stateside
1st Edition
By Margaret A. Berg
November 19, 2025
This book 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: Recent Developments the World Over, 1987–2004
1st Edition
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By Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann, Marc Fabian Buck
September 29, 2025
The second of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic continues to gather international perspectives to critically assess how Waldorf education has been perceived and discussed in both public and academic arenas. Both books thereby challenge the historic concept of Waldorf education as ...
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 24, 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 ...