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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]โ€“ Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected]ย โ€“ Editor, North & South America

Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] โ€“ Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia

63 Series Titles


Critically Assessing the Reputation of Waldorf Education in Academia and the Public: Recent Developments the World Over, 1987โ€“2004

Critically Assessing the Reputation of Waldorf Education in Academia and the Public: Recent Developments the World Over, 1987โ€“2004

1st Edition

Edited By Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann, Marc Fabian Buck
May 01, 2024

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 ...

A Framework for Critical Transnational Research Advancing Plurilingual, Intercultural, and Inter-epistemic Collaboration in the Academy

A Framework for Critical Transnational Research: Advancing Plurilingual, Intercultural, and Inter-epistemic Collaboration in the Academy

1st Edition

Edited By Manuela Guilherme
January 29, 2024

By foregrounding successful transnational research projects conducted across Latin America and Europe, this edited collection contests epistemological hegemony and heterogeneity in the academy and highlights feasible models for research cooperation across diverse languages, cultures, and ...

European Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Canada Critical Comparative Insights

European Perspectives on Inclusive Education in Canada: Critical Comparative Insights

1st Edition

Edited By Theodore Michael Christou, Robert Kruschel, Ian Alexander Matheson, Kerstin Merz-Atalik
January 29, 2024

Featuring leading voices in the field from across Canada and Europe, this edited collection offers empirical analyses of the historical, social, cultural, and legislative determinants of inclusive education in Canadian schools. Covering four thematic areas including the structure, culture, and ...

Belonging in Changing Educational Spaces Negotiating Global, Transnational, and Neoliberal Dynamics

Belonging in Changing Educational Spaces: Negotiating Global, Transnational, and Neoliberal Dynamics

1st Edition

Edited By Karen Monkman, Ann Frkovich
September 25, 2023

This book explores the impacts on personal and professional, local and global forms of belonging in educational spaces amidst rapid changes shaped by globalization. Encouraging readers to consider the idea of belonging as an educational goal as much as a guiding educational strategy, this text ...

The Evolution of Transnational Education Pathways, Globalisation and Emerging Trends

The Evolution of Transnational Education: Pathways, Globalisation and Emerging Trends

1st Edition

By Christopher Hill, Judith Lamie, Tim Gore
September 25, 2023

This book examines issues of identity; positionality; community; value and relevance, to explore where transnational higher education is headed and what form it may take moving forwards. Transnational higher education has traditionally been viewed through the lens of access. Now, the authors argue,...

Interpreting International Education In Honour of Professor Jeff Thompson

Interpreting International Education: In Honour of Professor Jeff Thompson

1st Edition

Edited By Mary Hayden
May 31, 2023

This book addresses issues and challenges arising in the theory and practice of international education. Written by leading international experts in the field, it draws on up-to-date scholarship relating to this burgeoning area of study. The book reflects research that focuses on the increasing ...

Primary Mathematics Pedagogy at the Intersection of Education Reform, Policy, and Culture Comparative Insights from Ghana, Singapore, and the US

Primary Mathematics Pedagogy at the Intersection of Education Reform, Policy, and Culture: Comparative Insights from Ghana, Singapore, and the US

1st Edition

By Sarah Murray, Princess Allotey
May 31, 2023

This volume provides an in-depth, comparative examination of how primary mathematics education is influenced by national education reform, policy, local resources, and culture in three different countries. By drawing on first-hand observations and interviews, as well as analysis of policy ...

Education Sector Plans and their Implementation in Developing Countries A Comparative Analysis

Education Sector Plans and their Implementation in Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis

1st Edition

By Roy Carr-Hill
March 09, 2023

This book examines the factors affecting the successful implementation of Education Sector Plans in developing countries. It provides a detailed comparison that draws on data from 27 countries to offer careful research conclusions and policy recommendations. Offering a detailed comparison of the ...

Teaching and Learning for Comprehensive Citizenship Global Perspectives on Peace Education

Teaching and Learning for Comprehensive Citizenship: Global Perspectives on Peace Education

1st Edition

Edited By Candice Carter
May 30, 2022

Ultimately concerned with how citizenship education for peace can be enriched through interdisciplinary learning, this edited volume reveals the role of peace education in global citizenship by illuminating instruction for comprehensive citizenship. A truly international collection, this volume ...

Considering Inclusive Development across Global Educational Contexts How Critical and Progressive Movements can Inform Education

Considering Inclusive Development across Global Educational Contexts: How Critical and Progressive Movements can Inform Education

1st Edition

By Christopher Johnstone
May 06, 2022

This volume charts the rise of the concept of "inclusive development" and simultaneously recognizes its problematic implications as it shifts the focus of development work from efficiency to justice. In response to increasing awareness that development projects can all too often lead to the ...

Japanese Schooling and Identity Investment Overseas Exploring the Cultural Politics of

Japanese Schooling and Identity Investment Overseas: Exploring the Cultural Politics of "Japaneseness" in Singapore

1st Edition

By Glenn Toh
May 06, 2022

This book is about education, ideology, power and identity investment and concerns an influential East Asian expatriate community. Specifically, it seeks to understand particular ways in which the Japanese white-collar elite live as a closed and self-referentially defined in-group, despite the ...

The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of People

The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years: Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of People

1st Edition

Edited By Thomas Popkewitz, Daniel Pettersson, Kai-Jung Hsiao
May 06, 2022

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science...

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