Sarah Lange examines the effectiveness of cascade training, which constitutes a cost-effective training model in teacher training. In development cooperation countries, teaching quality is expected to improve with teacher professional development; for this purpose, she explores the effectiveness of training multipliers in schools in Cameroon. This research question is analysed with a design, wh…
Overview -- From Policy Implementation to Policy Change: A Personal Odyssey -- Implementation Analysis in Higher Education -- The Implementation Game -- National Case Studies -- The Implementation of the Norwegian College Reform -- The Legacy of 1981: An Assessment of the Long-Term Implications of the Reductions in Funding Imposed in 1981 on Institutional Management in UK Higher Education -- Fr…
Challenge and Change: The Academic Profession in Uncertain Times -- Globalisation’s Impact on the Professoriate in Anglo-American Universities -- Academics and Institutional Governance -- Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States -- From Peregrinatio Academica to Global Academic: The Internationalisation of the Profession -- Academics’ View of Teaching Staf…
New Paradigm for Education Reform -- New Paradigm for Education Reforms: Globalization, Localization, and Individualization -- Three Waves of Education Reform: Internal, Interface, and Future -- Fostering Local Knowledge and Human Development in Globalization of Education -- A Theory of Self-learning in a Networked Human and IT Environment -- Economic Considerations in Education Reforms and Pol…
Introduction: Critical Engagements with the Internationalization of Higher Education -- Enabling Transnational Learning Communities: Policies, Pedagogies and Politics of Educational Power -- Knowledge in the Marketplace: The Global Commodification of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education -- How the West is Done: Simulating Western Pedagogy in a Curriculum for Asian International Students --…
One -- Globalisation, Education and Policy: Changing Paradigms -- Policy Borrowing in Education: Frameworks for Analysis -- Comparative Education in the Era of Globalisation: Evolution, Missions and Roles -- The Education and Training of Knowledge Workers -- Tacit Skills and Occupational Mobility in a Global Culture -- Development, Globalisation and Decentralisation: Comparative Research Toward…
One -- Globalization and Educational Change: New Policy Worlds -- Marketization in Education: Looking Back to Move Forward with a Stronger Critique -- Multicultural Education in the United States and Canada: The Importance of National Policies -- International Comparative Studies of Education and Large-Scale Change -- A Changed Policy Environment for US Universities -- The Implications of Polic…
Institutional Contexts and Effectiveness of Schooling -- Selection and Definition of Indicators -- Country Reports: Education Systems in Europe -- Quality and Equity of European Education -- Configurations of Institutional Contexts -- Reflections and Explanations -- Summary and Implications for Worldwide Education.Based on empirical analysis using configuration theory and multi-dimensional scal…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Misnomers -- Chapter 2. Imaginaries about Interculturality -- Discourses of Othering -- Chapter 3. Interculturality and the 'Fragilities' of Human Rights -- Chapter 4. Tools for Change – Dynamic and Realistic Intercultural Competences -- Conclusion. .This book explores the decades-long use of the notion of interculturality in education and other fields, arguing that…
Foreword; Terence Lovat -- Introduction: Towards The Simultaneity Of IC?; Fred Dervin & Zehavit Gross -- PART I: ADDING TO PREVIOUS PERSPECTIVES: MAKING IC MORE EFFECTIVE? -- Chapter 1. Meta-Pragmatic Awareness And Intercultural Competence: The Role Of Reflection And Interpretation In Intercultural Mediation; Troy Mcconachy & Anthony J. Liddicoat -- Chapter 2. Intercultural Competence In Host S…