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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Educational Policy Borrowing in China: Looking West or looking East?
1st Edition
By Charlene Tan
October 12, 2017
For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects China’s propensity to borrow selected educational policies from elsewhere, particularly North America and Europe. Chinese scholars...
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. ...