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
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
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
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 "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
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas S. 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...
Blended and Online Learning for Global Citizenship: New Technologies and Opportunities for Intercultural Education
1st Edition
By William Hunter, Roger Austin
April 29, 2022
By showcasing international, European, and community-based projects, this volume explores how online technologies and collaborative and blended learning can be used to bolster social cohesion and increase students’ understanding of what it means to be a global citizen. With the pace of ...
50 Years of US Study Abroad Students: Japan as the Gateway to Asia and Beyond
1st Edition
By Sarah R. Asada
June 30, 2021
Since the 1960s, Japan has been a historical leading study abroad destination for US undergraduate students. This book explores the long-term impacts of study abroad through a lens of knowledge diplomacy and the cultivation of individuals with understanding of the host country and world through ...
Education and the Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-Colonial India
1st Edition
Edited
By Suresh Babu G.S
June 30, 2021
Education and the Public Sphere conceptually and empirically investigates and unfolds several complexities embedded in the educational system in India by exploring it as a site of transforming the public sphere. Bringing together a range of contributions from education and the social sciences, this...
Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women: Education, Emancipation and Empowerment
1st Edition
By Taeko Takayanagi
June 30, 2021
Informal Learning and Literacy among Maasai Women highlights the importance and role of informal education in the emancipation and development of Maasai village women in Kenya. At present, knowledge and research on the impact of informal learning and literacy on community development is limited, ...
Parental Involvement Across European Education Systems: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Angelika Paseka, Delma Byrne
June 30, 2021
This book addresses central questions regarding parental involvement across European educational systems; exploring the commonalities and differences across European countries and the extent to which current policy and practice pertaining to parental involvement is inclusive of diversity.Adopting ...
Residential Schools and Indigenous Peoples: From Genocide via Education to the Possibilities for Processes of Truth, Restitution, Reconciliation, and Reclamation
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Minton
June 30, 2021
Residential Schools and Indigenous Peoples provides an extended multi-country focus on the transnational phenomenon of genocide of Indigenous peoples through residential schooling. It analyses how such abusive systems were legitimised and positioned as benevolent during the late nineteenth century ...
Transculturalism and Teacher Capacity: Professional Readiness in the Globalised Age
1st Edition
By Niranjan Casinader
June 30, 2021
Based on new research data, with a 135-teacher study over 8 countries, this book challenges the assumption that all teachers automatically have the expertise to teach cultural understanding and argues, instead, that there is the need for teachers to acquire transcultural expertise to teach cultural...