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
Nationalism and History Education: Curricula and Textbooks in the United States and France
1st Edition
By Rachel Hutchins
November 17, 2017
History education, by nature, transmits an ‘official’ version of national identity. National identity is not a fixed entity, and controversy over history teaching is an essential part of the process of redefining and regenerating the nation. France and the United States have in particular ...
Investigating Education in Germany: Historical studies from a British perspective
1st Edition
By David Phillips
October 12, 2017
This book brings together the work of established researcher Professor David Phillips, in one authoritative volume. Including key chapters on education in Germany from the last three decades, topics range from historical studies of universities and schools, to detailed research on the role of the ...
Citizenship Education and Migrant Youth in China: Pathways to the Urban Underclass
1st Edition
By Miao Li
May 18, 2017
In East Asian economies such as China, recent mass rural-urban migration has created a new urban underclass, as have their children. However, their inclusion in urban public schools is a surprisingly slow process, and youth identities in newly industrialized countries remain largely neglected. ...
Educating Adolescent Girls Around the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra L. Stacki, Supriya Baily
May 16, 2017
While many initial education benchmarks are being met, new and continuing challenges exist for adolescent girls in the developing world. Discrimination, violence, marginalization, and health-related issues prevail, making proper education at the middle school level crucial during this unique ...
International Service Learning: Engaging Host Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianne Larsen
May 16, 2017
International service learning (ISL) programs are growing more popular with students looking to advance their skills and knowledge to become global citizens. While the benefits of these programs among students are well documented, little is known about the implications they have on host communities...
The Critical Global Educator: Global citizenship education as sustainable development
1st Edition
By Maureen Ellis
May 16, 2017
An acknowledged challenge for humanitarian democratic education is its perceived lack of philosophical and theoretical foundation, often resulting in peripheral academic status and reduced prestige. A rich philosophical and theoretical tradition does however exist. This book synthesises crucial ...
Leading and Managing Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World
1st Edition
By Zane Ma Rhea
February 15, 2017
This book brings together the academic fields of educational leadership, educational administration, strategic change management, and Indigenous education in order to provide a critical, multi-perspective, systems level analysis of the provision of education services to Indigenous people. It draws ...
Culture, Transnational Education and Thinking: Case studies in global schooling
1st Edition
By Niranjan Casinader
January 11, 2017
The notion of thinking skills as a key component of a 21st century school education is now firmly entrenched in educational policy and curriculum frameworks in many parts of the world. However, there has been relatively little questioning of the manner in which educational globalisation has ...
Education and the State: International perspectives on a changing relationship
1st Edition
Edited
By Carla Aubry, Michael Geiss, Veronika Magyar-Haas, Jürgen Oelkers
December 05, 2016
In most countries in the world, school education is the business of the state. Even if forms and functions differ, the imparting of elementary knowledge is universally regarded as a public function. Yet this is neither self-evident nor self-explanatory. The degree of involvement of state agencies ...
Citizenship Education around the World: Local Contexts and Global Possibilities
1st Edition
Edited
By John Petrovic, Aaron Kuntz
November 18, 2016
Though certainly not a new idea, citizenship education manifests in unique and often unpredictable ways in our contemporary neoliberal era. The question of what it means to be a productive and recognized citizen must now be understood simultaneously along both global and local lines. This edited ...
Conflict, Reconciliation and Peace Education: Moving Burundi Toward a Sustainable Future
1st Edition
By William Timpson, Elavie Ndura, Apollinaire Bangayimbaga
November 18, 2016
When the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States occurred—causing that nation to wage wars of revenge in Afghanistan and Iraq—the people of Burundi were recovering from nearly forty years of violence, genocide and civil wars that had killed nearly one million and produced another million ...
Multicampus University Systems: Africa and the Kenyan Experience
1st Edition
By Ishmael I. Munene
November 18, 2016
In the face of increasing social demand and cutbacks in state budgetary support, universities in African countries are now turning towards a multicampus system strategy. As African governments have adopted neoliberal education policies that place premium on entrepreneurialism, profit making, ...