International & Comparative Education

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 po..

Global Migration and Education makes a notable contribution to understanding the issues faced by immigrant children, their parents, and educators as they interact in school settings, and to identifying the common challenges to, and successes in, educational institutions worldwide as they cope with t..

The book’s ten chapters offer cross-cultural and comparative insights on some of the most pressing challenges and promising opportunities for improving education worldwide. These perspectives shape new understandings of context as influence on conceptual insights into education policy and practice a..

This book brings together educationalists from around the globe, who share a common interest in nurturing the spiritual lives of children and young people, to explore how approaches to spirituality and education have been shaped by the historical, cultural, religious and political contexts of differ..

This book brings together educationalists from around the globe, who share a common interest in nurturing the spiritual lives of children and young people, to explore how approaches to spirituality and education have been shaped by the historical, cultural, religious and political contexts of differ..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book takes a critical look at the impact of globalization as it relates to educating women for work. It explores current efforts in a number of nations to make vocational education and training gender equitable...

This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on globalization with regard to the rescaling of educational accountabilities, linked to international and national testing regimes and their impact. In particular, this book examines the impact and effects of this global framework in two illustrat..

The modern state – First and Third worlds alike – pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to deepen the schools’ effect upon children. First published in 1991, Growing-Up Modern explores why, how, and with what actual effects state actors so vehemently pursue this dual political agenda...

Rethinking Stuart Hall neither strictly as a Cultural Studies scholar nor as a sociologist, this book instead understands him as an extraordinary educator of publics and counter-publics. A ‘gold standard’ for public intellectual work, Hall’s pedagogical and political legacy is our inheritance. Takin..

Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives...

The Handbook of International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education provides a groundbreaking compilation of research from an interdisciplinary group of distinguished experts in early childhood education, child development, cultural and cross cultural research in the psychological sciences, etc...