Educational Studies

Civic Education for Diverse Citizens in Global Times

Rethinking Theory and Practice

Edited by Beth C. Rubin, James M. Giarelli

Series: Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education Series

This book explores four interrelated themes: rethinking civic education in light of the diversity of U.S. society; re-examining these notions in an increasingly interconnected global context; re-considering the ways that civic education is researched and practiced; and taking stock of where we are...

Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge

Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality in Education

A Global Perspective

Edited by N. Ken Shimahara, Ivan Z. Holowinsky, Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke

Series: Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education Series

This volume explores contemporary issues of ethnic, cultural, and national identities and their influence on the social construction of identity. These issues are analyzed from the perspective of seven nations: China, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Ukraine, Wales, and the United States. While...

Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum

Perspectives of Developing and Transitional Countries

Edited by Patti McGill Peterson

Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobility and the impact of globalization, but there has been little attention to curriculum and the forces that shape it. Confronting Challenges to the...

Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge

Constructing Educational Achievement

A sociocultural perspective

Edited by Sivanes Phillipson, Kelly Ku, Shane Phillipson

International interest focuses on why pupils from East-Asia tend to outperform pupils from the West and scholars have proposed a number of possible explanations to account for these international trends. Using Vygotsky's theory (1978) as a conceptual framework to "construct" school achievement,...

Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

Globalizing Education, Educating the Local

How Method Made us Mad

By Ian Stronach

This book offers a critical and deconstructive account of global discourses on education, arguing that these overblown ‘hypernarratives’ are neither economically, technically nor philosophically defensible. Nor even sane. Their ‘mythic economic instrumentalism’ mimic rather than meet the economic...

Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge

Harmonizing Global Education

From Genghis Khan to Facebook

By Jon Baggaley

Series: Open and Flexible Learning Series

Distance education (DE) offers ways to reach the many people around the world who lack access to education and training by other means. International DE methods, however, are fragmented, and distance educators have often abandoned new technologies before giving them a chance to develop. As a result...

Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge

Immigration, Diversity, and Education

Edited by Elena L. Grigorenko, Ruby Takanishi

This edited volume presents an overview of research and policy issues pertaining to children from birth to 10 who are first- and second-generation immigrants to the U.S., as well as native-born children of immigrants. The contributors offer interdisciplinary perspectives on recent developments and...

Published October 1st 2012 by Routledge

Paying the Professoriate

A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts

Edited by Philip Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, Iván Pacheco

How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key...

Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge

Educational Futures

Dominant and Contesting Visions

By Ivana Milojevic

This book provides an overview and analysis of current tensions, debates and key issues within OECD nations, particularly Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK, with regard to where education is and should be going. Using a broad historical analysis, it investigates ideas and visions about the...

Published March 29th 2011 by Routledge

Global Education Inc.

New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

By Stephen J. Ball

Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in its ‘welfare’ form? Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision of ‘best practice’ based on the methods...

Published February 28th 2012 by Routledge

Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community

Exploring the Contribution of Integrated Curriculum

By Léonie J. Rennie, Grady Venville, John Wallace

As the third millennium progresses, we are faced with increasing pressures relating to climate change and the sustainability of life on Earth. Concerned citizens are realizing that the responsibility to respond is both local and global. There is an increasing sense of urgency about the need to...

Published October 27th 2011 by Routledge