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
Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary McCulloch, Ivor Goodson, Mariano González-Delgado
June 30, 2021
This book offers a remarkable range of research that emphasises the need to analyse the shaping of curricula under historical, social and political variables. Teachers’ life stories, the Cold War as a contextual element that framed curricular transformations in the US and Europe, and the study of ...
Comparative Perspectives on Early School Leaving in the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Comparative Perspectives on Refugee Youth Education: Dreams and Realities in Educational Systems Worldwide
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander W. Wiseman, Lisa Damaschke-Deitrick, Ericka L. Galegher, Maureen F. Park
December 18, 2020
This volume explores the shared expectations that education is a panacea for the difficulties that refugees and their receiving countries face. This book investigates the ways in which education is both a dream solution as well as a contested landscape for refugee families and students. Using ...
Classroom Change in Developing Countries: From Progressive Cage to Formalistic Frame
1st Edition
By Gerard Guthrie
August 14, 2020
Progressive Education, derived mainly from Anglo-American culture, has been the primary frame of reference for student-centered classroom change in developing countries for over 50 years. Yet in many developing countries, strong evidence shows that progressivism has not replaced teacher-centered ...
Actionable Research for Educational Equity and Social Justice: Higher Education Reform in China and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Wang Chen, Xu Li, Edward P. St. John, Cliona Hannon
July 31, 2020
Actionable Research for Educational Equity and Social Justice advances a unique, engaged approach to promoting educational equity and social justice in higher education across China and beyond. Developed as a joint venture of senior and junior scholars in China and the United States, this book ...
Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education in Asia: History, Present and Future Issues
1st Edition
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By Yasushi Tanaka, Karsten Zegwaard
June 30, 2020
It has been over a century since "Cooperative System of Education," a work-study programme for higher education, was initiated by Herman Schneider at University of Cincinnati in the United States. Today, it is known as "Cooperative Education" which is commonly included within the umbrella term of "...
Navigating the Common Good in Teacher Education Policy: Critical and International Perspectives
1st Edition
By Nikola Hobbel, Barbara L. Bales
June 30, 2020
Navigating the Common Good in Teacher Education Policy examines the changing relationships between the state and the common (or public) good. Using teacher education policy as the frame of analysis, the authors examine history, cultural context, and lived experiences in 12 countries and the ...
Reforming Education in Developing Countries: From Neoliberalism to Communitarianism
1st Edition
By Izhar Oplatka
June 30, 2020
Underpinned in the stream of thought named ‘communitarianism’, Reforming Education in Developing Countries argues that developing countries need educational reforms that are tightly entwined into their cultural, social, and organizational contexts. It questions the applicability of neoliberal ...
Social Justice Education in European Multi-ethnic Schools: Addressing the Goals of Intercultural Education
1st Edition
By Cinzia Pica-Smith, Rina Manuela Contini, Carmen N. Veloria
June 30, 2020
Winner of the American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Book Award, 2019 Europe is a multi-ethnic society experiencing a rise of anti-immigration, racist, xenophobic discourses, and right-wing political rhetoric and movements proposing legislation to further solidify structural ...
Higher Education and China’s Global Rise: A Neo-tributary Perspective
1st Edition
By Su-Yan Pan, Joe Tin Yau Lo
May 07, 2020
This book examines the rise of China’s global profile in the international higher education community, as indicated by its rise of human capital, visibility in academic publications, world university ranking, expanding international cultural influence, and becoming a study-abroad destination of ...
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe: Systemic, Institutional and Subjective Challenges
1st Edition
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By Aina Tarabini, Nicola Ingram
February 25, 2020
Educational Choices, Transitions and Aspirations in Europe analyses educational choices and transitions in eight different European countries/regions and provides an engaging means of considering issues of inequality through international comparisons. The book is underpinned by explorations of ...
Home Schooling and Home Education: Race, Class and Inequality
1st Edition
By Kalwant Bhopal, Martin Myers
February 25, 2020
Home Schooling and Home Education provides an original account of home education and examines ways in which the discourses of home education are understood and contextualised in different countries, such as the UK and USA. By exploring home education in the global and local context of traditional ...