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
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 ...
Comparative Perspectives on Early School Leaving in the European Union
1st Edition
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By Lore Van Praag, Ward Nouwen, Rut Van Caudenberg, Noel Clycq, Christiane Timmerman
March 31, 2021
Early School Leaving in the European Union provides an analysis of early school leaving (ESL) in nine European Union countries, with a particular focus on young people who were previously enrolled in educational institutions inside and outside mainstream secondary education. The comparative ...
Faculty Development in Developing Countries: Improving Teaching Quality in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristine Smith, Katherine Hudson
June 07, 2019
Learner-centered approaches to teaching, such as small group discussions, debates, role plays and project-based assignments, help students develop critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills. However, more traditional lecture-based approaches still predominate in classrooms in higher ...
The Shifting Global World of Youth and Education
1st Edition
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By Mabel Ann Brown
January 17, 2019
The Shifting Global World of Youth and Education explores how increasing migration and population changes are having an unprecedented impact on global education. Given that the number of children of migrant background is growing internationally, there is a need for increasing awareness of the ...
Decolonising Intercultural Education: Colonial differences, the geopolitics of knowledge, and inter-epistemic dialogue
1st Edition
By Robert Aman
January 03, 2019
At the centre of Decolonising Intercultural Education is a simple yet fundamental question: is it possible to learn from the Other? This book argues that many recent efforts to theorise interculturality restrict themselves to a variety of interpretations within a Western framework of knowledge, ...
The Effectiveness of Mathematics Teaching in Primary Schools: Lessons from England and China
1st Edition
By Zhenzhen Miao, David Reynolds
December 19, 2018
The Effectiveness of Mathematics Teaching in Primary Schools: Lessons from England and China provides a unique insight into the mathematics classrooms of these two countries and arrives at a time when the world is eager to know how Chinese learners consistently excel at learning mathematics and ...
Dialogue in Places of Learning: Youth Amplified in South Africa
1st Edition
By Adam Cooper
April 27, 2018
Showing how youth from one of the poorest and most violent neighborhoods in Cape Town, South Africa, learn differently in three educational contexts— in classrooms, in a community hip hop crew, on a youth radio show—this book illuminates how South African schools, like schools elsewhere, subtly ...
Educating for Democracy in England and Finland: Principles and culture
1st Edition
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By Andrea Raiker, Matti Rautiainen
March 12, 2018
With the growth of terrorism, instability in the EU following recession, and the acceleration of support for right-wing political parties in Europe, discussions on the nature of democracy and democratic citizenship have never been more important. Exploring the relationship between democratic values...
Global Literacy in Local Learning Contexts: Connecting Home and School
1st Edition
By Mary Faith Mount-Cors
January 22, 2018
Based on qualitative research focused on literacy and health from three schools in coastal Kenya, this book examines country, school, and family contexts to develop a dual-generation maternal-child model for literacy learning and to connect local-specific phenomena with national and international ...
Global Identity in Multicultural and International Educational Contexts: Student identity formation in international schools
1st Edition
By Nigel Bagnall
December 21, 2017
The increased movement of people globally has changed the face of national and international schooling. Higher levels of mobility have resulted from both the willing movement of students and their families with a desire to create a better life, and the forced movement of refugee families ...
Knowledge Hierarchies in Transnational Education: Staging dissensus
1st Edition
By Jing Qi
December 21, 2017
Transnational education seeks equivalence in standards and/or relevance of outcomes through the transfer of Western theories, concepts and methods. Utilising a critique-interpretative approach, Jing Qi argues that equivalence/relevance-oriented approaches to transnational education assume the ...
Transformative Education through International Service-Learning: Realising an ethical ecology of learning
1st Edition
By Philip Bamber
December 21, 2017
Transformative learning is a compelling approach to learning that is becoming increasingly popular in a diverse range of educational settings and encounters. This book reconceptualises transformative learning through an investigation of the learning process and outcomes of International ...