Books in the Global Studies in Education series

This book focuses on the development of Taiwan's long-standing National Scholarship Program for Overseas Study between 1955 and 2000. The research includes an ethnographic analysis of discourse, investigating the program from two perspectives: the researcher's critical discourse analysis of historical texts, and the narratives provided by program stakeholders.

Social Justice in Times of Crisis and Hope examines the possibilities and consequences of the relationship between young people, well-being, education and social justice in times of crisis and hope.

A collection of the eighteen essays that woven together to make a central claim: as a consequence of the driving logics of globalization, transnationalism, and the digital age, late-modern institutions and forms of association and affiliation are coalescing under the banner of identities.

A collection of the eighteen essays that woven together to make a central claim: as a consequence of the driving logics of globalization, transnationalism, and the digital age, late-modern institutions and forms of association and affiliation are coalescing under the banner of identities.

Conceptions of Islamic Education

Based on an Afro-Caribbean primary school teacher's experience, this title provides a discourse which extends and illuminates the limitations of the neo-liberal and global rationalizations of the challenges posed to a teacher's practice.

Intercultural dialogue is a concept and discourse that dates back to the 1980s. It is the major means for managing diversity and strengthening democracy within Europe and beyond. This title examines the ideological underpinnings of the European model and its global applications.

This book explores real global issues in the classroom and also offers different innovative instructional strategies that educators have employed while teaching social studies courses. Indeed, this volume is a critical tool to help educators and students to gain a better understanding of globalization and global education.

Bakhtinian Pedagogy

Bakhtinian Pedagogy

Citizenship and Citizenship Education in a Global Age

Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance aims to address the contentious practice of assessment in schools and universities within a poststructuralist educational paradigm.

This book pays tribute to an intellectual giant. The twenty-one succinct chapters comprising the volume, and the variety of scholars who have authored them, reflect the towering influence of Roger Dale's work in fields such as the Sociology of Education, Globalization and Education Policy Studies, and Comparative and International Education.

The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives consists of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of the university across the world.

The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 provides selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810.

The Philosophy of Open Learning provides an overview of current debates and introduces the reader to the overall discourse on open education. The broad range of topics, including Massive Open Online Courses and Open Educational Resources is aimed at demonstrating that open education has emerged as a new principle for organizing higher education.