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…
Introduction: Reinvigorating the spirit of ’64; Tom Slater -- Chapter 1. From No Platform to Safe Space: A Crisis of Enlightenment; Brendan O’Neill -- Chapter 2. The ‘New’ Feminism and the Fear of Free Speech ; Nancy McDermott -- Chapter 3. Re-educating Men: The War on Lads and Frats; Tom Slater -- Chapter 4. Teaching Students to Censor: How Academics Betrayed Free Speech; Joanna Willia…
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Political History of Belgian Education during the Second World War -- Chapter 2. Between Pacification and Conflict: The History of Belgian Education and the Challenge of National Socialism -- Chapter 3. Towards a Gleichschaltung of Belgian Education: The German Education Policy and the Contacts between the Military Administration and the Belgian Roman Catholic Church …
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…
Introduction by Robert Kirkpatrick & Thuy Thi Ngoc Bui -- English-in-education Policy and Planning in Bangladesh: A Critical Examination by M. Obaidul Hamid & Elizabeth J. Erling -- English Language Education Policies in the People’s Republic of China by Jeffrey Gil -- English Language Education Policy and the Native-speaking English Teacher (NET) Scheme in Hong Kong by Mihyon Jeon -- English…
Chapter 1: Conceptualizing Innovation in Higher Education: William G. Tierney, Ph.D., Michael Lanford -- Chapter 2: English Learners and Their Transition to Postsecondary Education: Dr. Anne-Marie Núñez, Dr. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Dr. Yasuko Kanno, Dr. Stella M. Flores -- Chapter 3: Students with disabilities in higher education: A review of the literature and an agenda for future research: Ez…
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” …
Higher Education and the Palestinian Minority in Israel examines perceptions concerning the characteristics of higher education acquisition in the indigenous Palestinian Arab minority in Israel. Arar and Haj-Yehia show that Palestinian Arabs in Israel clearly understand the benefit of an academic degree as a lever for social status and integration within the state of Israel. The authors discuss…
Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Globalisation and Neo-Liberal Education Reforms in the Knowledge Society -- Part 1: Higher Education Reforms in the USA -- 2. Higher Education and the Discourse on Global Competition: Vernacular Approaches within Higher Education Policy Documents -- 3. New Developments in Global University Rankings -- 4. Higher Education Engagements and Economic Partici…