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
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 Curriculum History of Canadian Teacher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Theodore Michael Christou
March 28, 2019
Organized by region, this edited collection provides a comprehensive look at how teacher education has evolved regionally and nationally in Canada. Offering an in-depth look at specific provinces and territories, this volume contextualizes the landscape of Canadian public education and the place of...
Globalization and Japanese Exceptionalism in Education: Insiders' Views into a Changing System
1st Edition
Edited
By Ryoko Tsuneyoshi
March 21, 2019
Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is ...
The Shifting Global World of Youth and Education
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Teaching in Primary Schools in China and India: Contexts of learning
1st Edition
By Nirmala Rao, Emma Pearson, Kai-ming Cheng, Margaret Taplin
March 14, 2018
This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents’ beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children’s attainment....
Educating for Democracy in England and Finland: Principles and culture
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...