Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective Series Editors: Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki, Finland Xiangyun Du, Confucius Institute for Learning and Development, Aalborg University, Denmark What happens when East travels West? In today’s increasingly globalized world, these collisions are becoming increasingly common in universities– especially due to the growth of m…
Part I: When Past Meets Future -- 1 Embedded Models of Development: Educational Changes in the People's Republic of China -- 2 The Chinese University 3.0 in a Global Age: History, Modernity and Future -- 3 Curriculum Reform and Education Policy Borrowing in China: Towards a Hybrid Model of Teaching -- 4 Expanding Horizons of Curriculum Wisdoms: Teachers' Experiences in New Curriculum Reform in …
Childhood and Nation explores the historical and manifold current relations between nation and childhood. Millei and Imre bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address many pressing questions of today. The analytical incisions created by nation and childhood bring answers to the following questions: How do national agendas related to economic, social and pol…
PART I. The Theoretical Framework.- Chapter 1. The Unintended Consequences of University Governance Reforms.- Chapter 2. Poor Policy Design and Implementation -- PART II: The Historical Evolution of Italian Higher Education.- Chapter 3. From the Post-WWII Period To The 1980 Modernization Law.- Chapter 4. Autonomy And Funding: The Reforms Of the Late 1980s to the Mid-1990s.- Chapter 5. Lead…
Black Participatory Research explores research partnerships that disrupt inequality, create change, and empower racially marginalized communities. Through presenting a series of co-reflections from professional and community researchers in different locations, this book explores the conflicts and tensions that emerge when professional interests, class and socio-economic statuses, age, geography…
A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours. Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South first applies this analytical lens to a Tanzanian case …
Preface -- Chapter 1. Universities and Ranking in Globalized Higher Education -- Chapter 2. Tools to Capture and Measure the Rise and Fall of Universities -- Chapter 3. Winners and Losers According to Rankings -- Chapter 4. A Closer Look at the Ranked: Ten Case Studies in Asia, Europe and North America -- Chapter 5. Why Universities Rise and Fall? The Crucial Factors -- Chapter 6. Going Back to…
PART I: MODELLING EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS AT TEACHING, SCHOOL AND SYSTEM LEVEL -- Preface -- 1. An Overarching Conceptual Framework -- 2. Modelling Teaching and Learning -- 3. Defining the Key Factors in Instructional Effectiveness -- 4. Modelling School Effectiveness -- 5. School Effectiveness Research and the Meaning of the Most Important Effectiveness Enhancing Conditions -- 6. System Leve…
'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
Part I: Patterns of stratification -- 1. Marginson “Global stratification in higher education” -- 2. Kauppinen Coco Choi & Brajkovic “Blurring Boundaries and Borders: Interlocks between AAU Institutions and Transnational Corporations” -- 3. Taylor “The field dynamics of stratification among US research universities: The expansion of federal support for academic research, 2000-2008” …