[{"id": "cice-10017", "words": "3336", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Rind, Gul Muhammd", "title": "Postcolonial Critiques on Globalization and Privatization of Education in Pakistan ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "development; education; globalization; pakistan; policies; privatization; rind; schools; world", "summary": "114 Current Issues in Comparative Education Postcolonial Critiques on Globalization and Privatization of Education in Pakistan Globalization and Privatization of Education in Pakistan Globalization in education policies are rapidly changing the current educational landscape in several countries including Pakistan. His research interests are comparative education, education policy, and leadership for equity and social justice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10160", "words": "1115", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Walrond, Honey", "title": "Integrating Technology in English Language Arts Teacher Education A Book Review", "date": "2023", "keywords": "english; teachers; technology", "summary": "Overall, Integrating Technology in English Language Arts Teacher Education provides different levels of understanding about technology and how ELA teachers can incorporate it into their classrooms. Walrond, H. - Integrating Technology in English Language Arts Teacher Education A Book Review.docx Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Volume 25, Issue 1, Winter 2023 Integrating Technology in English Language Arts Teacher Education: A Book Review Honey Walrond Teachers College, Columbia University Integrating Technology in English Language Arts Teacher Education: A Book Review The\u00a0use\u00a0of\u00a0technology\u00a0in\u00a0teaching\u00a0has\u00a0many\u00a0skeptics\u00a0about\u00a0its\u00a0advantages\u00a0and\u00a0positive\u00a0 impact\u00a0 on\u00a0 teaching.\u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10221", "words": "9394", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Korte, Satu-Maarit; K\u00f6rkk\u00f6, Minna; Kyr\u00f6-\u00c4mm\u00e4l\u00e4, Outi; Hast, Miia; Mommo, Sanna; Paksuniemi, Merja; Maxwell, Gregor; Beaton, Mhairi; Keskitalo, Pigga", "title": "A transnational comparative study of teachers\u2019 experiences of remote teaching and learning during COVID-19 pandemic", "date": "2023", "keywords": "analysis; case; data; education; experiences; finland; learning; online; pandemic; research; students; study; teachers; teaching; university", "summary": "Keywords: online pedagogy, remote teaching, teacher education. Teacher education should equip teachers not only for society\u2019s current demands but also for future needs and challenges they will face in their workplace, including mental health and other societal pressure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10235", "words": "7281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Karn, Sumit; Churiwal, Vandita; Henderson, Chris J; Chin, Mia; Sanjeev, Shreya", "title": "More girls are accessing school, but are they learning? An exploratory study of the factors influencing girls\u2019 mathematics achievement in Pakistan", "date": "2023", "keywords": "achievement; belonging; education; gender; girls; home; involvement; learning; mathematics; pakistan; resources; school; students; variable", "summary": "Keywords: Gender equity, girls achievement, sense of belonging, mathematics education, large-scale assessments, quality teaching. To provide insight on this matter, this paper interrogates girls' achievement in mathematics within the broader context of girls' access to quality schooling, asking: to what extent does gender influence mathematical achievement among grade four students in Pakistan?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10247", "words": "8290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Oyinloye, Bukola", "title": "Teachers' perceptions of parents in rural African communities", "date": "2023", "keywords": "children; communities; education; issues; parents; perspectives; primary; research; rural; school; schooling; study; teachers", "summary": "Underpinning this relationship are the perspectives that school teachers have of families (e.g., parents) and the perspectives that parents hold of schools, with the former contributing to the ways in which schools seek to engage with parents. Although observations revealed that comm B simultaneously experienced a cashew rush, perhaps because of the high-intensity farming experienced throughout the year, school B teachers did not single it out as a parental functioning in the way that school A teachers did.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10248", "words": "2522", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Pai, Grace", "title": "Beyond Demographic Identifiers and Classification: A Search for Alternative Approaches to Quantitatively Evaluating Equity", "date": "2023", "keywords": "capabilities; education; equity; individual; international; justice; usaid", "summary": "(2022) recent essay dissected the competing and often contradictory ways in which educational equity is framed: \u201cequality of educational\u00a0resources\u00a0across comparison sets, equal\u00a0distribution\u00a0of educational outcomes across populations, equal\u00a0outcomes\u00a0for every learner, equal educational\u00a0experiences\u00a0for each child, or equal levels of\u00a0growth\u00a0or\u00a0development\u00a0for each learner\u201d (p. 2). Her research focuses on educational equity across a range of disciplines from mathematics education to international education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10250", "words": "9528", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Hollis, Stefano", "title": "Education as an international export: Marketing elite, English schools as franchises overseas", "date": "2023", "keywords": "china; dulwich; education; elite; english; founding; franchise; franchise schools; global; harrow; international; local; schools; students", "summary": "Education as an international export: Marketing elite, English schools as franchises overseas.docx Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Volume 25, Issue 1, Winter 2023 Education as an international export: Marketing elite, English schools as franchises overseas Stefano Hollis Stanford University Graduate School of Education A growing portion of international schools are franchised branches of schools originally founded in other countries. A lens of international schools as enclosures of privilege is used to demonstrate how schools adapt themselves and their framing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10307", "words": "9313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Grillet, Patricia", "title": "Telling the Story of Gender Inequality During the Early Stages of Covid-19 Crisis in Education and Introducing Feminist Alternatives to Change the Reality", "date": "2023", "keywords": "covid-19; crisis; education; feminist; gender; girls; international; issues; learning; pandemic; plan; school; women", "summary": "What Previous Literature Reviews Found Literature reviews covering education issues that emerged during the Covid-19 crisis that preceded this study addressed topics such as racial issues or social indicators (Moore, 2021; Fallah-Aliabadi et al., 2022), technology (Salas-Pilco et al 2022;) or assessment (Chiang et al., 2022), all of which are pressing variables of education in emergencies. While education systems and the whole world were trying to cope with the crisis by implementing remote work alternatives, there was another hidden emergency affecting the physical integrity of mostly female members of our society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10474", "words": "3322", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Schindel , Alexandra ; Miles, Monica; Haq, Katherine ", "title": "Racializing the Climate Justice movement in education ", "date": "2023", "keywords": "buffalo; change; climate; climate justice; communities; education; issues; justice", "summary": "Therefore, our approach to teaching climate justice involves: 1) learning what climate justice issues can be found within one\u2019s own community, explicitly extrapolating these understandings to global contexts, and exploring the ways climate issues are interrelated; 2) integrating local climate issues into school curricula; and 3) engaging in collective, transformative climate actions through classroom, schoolwide, and community climate justice activism. Many educators do not incorporate climate justice issues within their classes because they are unclear about the concept and what it can look like within their geographic context.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10688", "words": "12573", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Dalrymple, Kelsey", "title": "Social Emotional Learning with Refugees in East Africa: Understandings, Implementation, and Impact", "date": "2023", "keywords": "activities; africa; children; communities; east; education; eie; interventions; interview; issues; learning; participants; programming; refugee; refugee communities; refugee education; sel; skills; study; working", "summary": "The study that informs this article specifically engaged EiE practitioners working with NGOs responsible for implementing SEL programming; many of these individuals also engaged in and/or led inter-agency working groups and coordination mechanisms. No interviewees mentioned working explicitly with refugee communities to develop SEL programming or to build on their existing/local forms of SEL.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10705", "words": "1763", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Hough, Whitney", "title": "Book Review School Leadership for Refugees\u2019 Education: Social Justice Leadership for Immigrant, Migrants and Refugees by Khalid Arar", "date": "2023", "keywords": "arar; education; leadership; refugees; school", "summary": "Throughout its eight chapters, the book offers a global analysis of policy guidelines, obstacles, and coping strategies concerning refugee education, comprehensively framing a synthesized model for CRL. Arar\u2019s holistic CRL model highlights four dimensions that apply to refugee education across these frameworks: personal awareness, inclusive pedagogy, policy mediation, and leader professionalism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10706", "words": "9379", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Fatima, Shizza", "title": "Coloniality, Resistance, and Reimagining the Future: Exploring the Influence of Language Policies on Learner Identities in Pakistani Schools", "date": "2023", "keywords": "colonial; education; elite; english; experiences; identities; language; logics; pakistan; policies; power; resistance; school; structures; students; urdu", "summary": "Carnoy (1974) has argued that the purpose of this policy was to instill a deep awe of English language and culture among the Indian elite and a deep disdain for their own background. The first section discusses students\u2019 associating English language with being educated, respected, and modern.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10730", "words": "10501", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Saini, Ruchi", "title": "\u201cIt is as if They are Taking Advantage of a Bad Situation\u201d: Female School Teachers\u2019 Narratives About Care Work and Online Teaching during Covid-19 in India", "date": "2023", "keywords": "care; care work; covid-19; education; family; female; gender; home; india; issues; pandemic; participants; research; school; school teachers; study; teachers; teaching; women; work", "summary": "Female school teachers with children were particularly affected because they had to simultaneously cope with exacerbated gendered inequities linked to care work at home (Borah and Das, 2021; Chauhan, 2020), and challenges linked with online teaching from the home such as digital divide, limited professional training, less attendance, and salary cuts (Kumawat, 2020). Despite the fact that teacher well-being is a prerequisite for providing students with a safe and quality learning atmosphere, especially in the context of humanitarian crises and emergencies such as COVID-19 (Falk et al., 2019), limited empirical research exists on the lived experiences of female school teachers in the Global South.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-10963", "words": "2550", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Spreen, Carol Anne", "title": "Creating Third Spaces of Learning for Post-Capitalism: Lessons from Educators, Artists andActivists", "date": "2023", "keywords": "capitalism; education; issues; learning; new; public; spaces; york", "summary": "Education third spaces are not only grounded in local communities but also in social movements that seek greater social and racial equity and quality of life for marginalized communities. While some of these spaces may be in or part of \u201cschools\u201d, many are not often thought of as \u201ceducation spaces,\u201d they are nonetheless sites for a different kind of learning and reimagining.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11299", "words": "11160", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Edwards, Michael; Hulme, David", "title": "Too Close for Comfort? The Impact of Official Aid on Nongovernmental Organizations", "date": "1998", "keywords": "accountability; development; donors; edwards; funding; government; gros; hulme; london; new; ngos; organizations; performance; policy; world", "summary": "Hashemi (1992) finds that large NGOs in Bangladesh fail to reach the poorest in their efforts to achieve rapid expansion in geographical coverage -- the drive for breadth rather than depth. In their defense, large NGOs such as BRAC have argued that they are not taking over government responsibilities -- merely helping to create the conditions that will ensure, in the future, that basic education is a real possibility for all children in the country (AKF/NOVIB, 1993, p. 41) via a temporary substitution role combined with training input (Farrington and Lewis, 1993, p. 22).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11300", "words": "2436", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ginsburg, Mark B.", "title": "NGOs: What\u2019s in an Acronym?", "date": "1998", "keywords": "education; ginsburg; new; ngos; state", "summary": "For instance, Carroll (1992) describes how NGOs in Latin America contribute invaluable, practical assistance to local grassroots groups involved in economic development activities, while Petras (1997) portrays similar NGOs in Latin America as competing with socio-political movements for the allegiance of local leaders and activist communities (p. 10) and linking foreign funders with local labor ([via] self-help micro-enterprises) to facilitate the continuation of the neo-liberal regime (p. 25). In recent years nongovernmental organizations or NGOs have become increasingly visible and active in various sectors of social life, including education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11301", "words": "3578", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Steiner-Khamsi, Gita", "title": "Too Far From Home? 'Modulitis' and NGOs\u2019 Role in Transferring Prepackaged Reform", "date": "1998", "keywords": "education; edwards; hulme; international; level; ngos; organizations; state", "summary": "In addition, unlike national and local NGOs in Western Europe or North America, NGOs in post- socialist countries do not receive funding from their own governments, but rather are directly financially tied and accountable to international governmental organizations or international NGOs. A micro-level analysis helps us to explain why individuals in NGOs rely on external funding from international NGOs but, at the same time, establish alliances with national government officials.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11302", "words": "1685", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Ilon, Lynn", "title": "Can NGOs Provide Alternative Development in a Market-Based System of Global Economics?", "date": "1998", "keywords": "development; market; ngos; service", "summary": "Thus, the agendas of advocacy and service NGOs fill both social needs for local communities and economic needs for donor/lending agencies (Handley, 1991). [1] The concerns addressed here are most likely to involve global NGOs that have substantial funding from market-based donors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11303", "words": "1543", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Arnove, Robert F.; Christina, Rachel", "title": "NGO-State Relations: An Argument in Favor of the State and Complementarity of Efforts", "date": "1998", "keywords": "education; literacy; ngos; state", "summary": "Yet local NGOs with strong ties to their communities can be instrumental in overcoming obstacles to national policymaking and in launching successful programs in the midst of language diversity. Nicaragua needs now the same level of commitment of state resources to address illiteracy as was available in the 1980 National Literacy Crusade and follow-up program of popular and adult basic education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11304", "words": "2775", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Klees, Steven J.", "title": "NGOs: Progressive Force or Neo-Liberal Tool?", "date": "1998", "keywords": "development; education; ngos; programs; scale; world", "summary": "[12] There are an array of strategies progressive NGOs are trying which aim at fundamental changes, such as: develop more extensive partnerships with government and civil society; lobby for national policy changes; align with and help develop progressive social movements; focus more on systemic causes of social problems like trade policy, structural adjustment, and human rights; and increase the capacity of people to represent their own interests. [9] Many NGOs have also recognized that governments, especially during the last two decades, have not been bringing such programs to scale.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11305", "words": "3363", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Edwards, Michael", "title": "Are NGOs Overrated? Why and How to Say \"No.\"", "date": "1998", "keywords": "development; edwards; legitimacy; market; ngos; world", "summary": "These qualifications are important, but they do not do away with the need to seek some common patterns in what is happening in the world--after all, we cannot make policy in any other way; nor do they disguise the fact that development NGOs are being influenced by some common trends at both macro- and micro- (or meso-) levels. \u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol.1(1) 55 Are NGOs Overrated?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11306", "words": "2477", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Stromquist, Nelly P.", "title": "NGOs in a New Paradigm of Civil Society", "date": "1998", "keywords": "government; movements; new; ngos; society; women", "summary": "Functions Steiner-Khamsi (this issue) observes that many NGOs in Eastern and Central Europe engage in corrupt practices. Second, many NGOs work on the premise that governments should fulfill obligations and be held accountable for the actions they take or fail to take.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11307", "words": "1032", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Are NGOs Overrated?", "date": "1998", "keywords": "ngos; society; state", "summary": "In Can NGOs provide alternative development in a market-based system of global economics?, Ilon explains that market demands compromise the service delivery goals of many NGOs. Perhaps NGOs and state forces would be better served in reaching their goals if they worked more closely together.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11308", "words": "6745", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Apple, Michael W.", "title": "Rhetorical Reforms: Markets, Standards and Inequality", "date": "1998", "keywords": "apple; education; issues; markets; neo; new; power; reforms; schools; state; whitty", "summary": "And only those students who can make a continual enterprise of themselves can keep such schools going in the correct direction. Beyond Test Scores It is unfortunately all too usual that the most widely used measures of the success of school reforms are the results of standardized achievement tests.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11309", "words": "3794", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Klees, Steven J.", "title": "Privatization and Neo-Liberalism: Ideology and Evidence in Rhetorical Reforms", "date": "1998", "keywords": "apple; education; evidence; neo; privatization; research; state", "summary": "Let me begin by supporting much of Apple's overall argument: that underlying all educational debates are competing visions of legitimate knowledge, (p. 16) supported by very unequal power; that the current emphasis on the free market and privatization is based on an eloquent fiction (p. 2) that has been assembled in new ways by an alliance of neo-liberal and neo-conservative forces; and that the upshot has been narrow and ideologically-based analyses of efficiency in education over broader views of what education does and what its role should be in achieving social justice. It is not that Apple's paper should have tackled all these issues, but their neglect would be more understandable if their absence had been recognized instead of characterizing the English experience as the most advanced (p. 4) or as representative of reform in other nations (p. 9, 12).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11310", "words": "4028", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "McLaren, Peter", "title": "Contesting Capital: Critical Pedagogy and Globalism A Response to Michael Apple", "date": "1998", "keywords": "apple; capitalism; class; education; mclaren; neo; new; pedagogy; relations; world", "summary": "As a result, too often such attempts have witnessed social relations of production becoming buried in the synergistic swirl of theoretical eclecticism. We can do this only if we examine how the production of gendered and racialized identities are shaped by the totality of social relations of production.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11311", "words": "3430", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Puiggros, Dra. Adriana", "title": "The Consequences of Neo-Liberalism on the Educational Prospects of Latin American Youth", "date": "1998", "keywords": "american; education; latin; people; percent; students; work; youth", "summary": "As a result, they have neglected to develop the sort of master planning that is indispensable if higher education systems are to grow and become more democratic. If that prognosis had been correct, today the majority of Latin American youth would have a common basic education, and educational advancement or access to higher education would, in large part, not be determined by social class but rather by differences in taste, preferences, talents, and vocations (Puiggros, February 1997).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11312", "words": "2815", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Jansen, Jonathan D.", "title": "Globalization, Curriculum and the Third World State: In Dialogue with Michael Apple", "date": "1998", "keywords": "africa; education; new; policy; south; state; world", "summary": "South Africa Since Apartheid At a first glance, it appears that while the cast of characters is different in the South African context, the trajectory of education policy is strikingly similar to what Apple observes in his review of educational reform in England and the United States of America. It is now clear that education policies and ideologies cross national borders with roughly similar promises, perils and procedures as economic markets (Jones, 1998; Taylor, 1999).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11313", "words": "4185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Cheng, Haojing; DeLany, Brian", "title": "Quality Education and Social Stratification: The Paradox of Private Schooling in China", "date": "1998", "keywords": "china; education; parents; public; reform; schools; society; students", "summary": "\u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 48 April 30, 1999 Quality Education and Social Stratification: The Paradox of Private Schooling in China Haojing Cheng Michigan State University Brian DeLany Michigan State University Since the opening of the first elite private school in June 1992, private schools have mushroomed in China. Though the percentage of private schools is still less than 4 percent of all schools in China, the current boom in private schools, especially the primary and the secondary level, evokes many debates and concerns over their legitimacy, policy, implementation, problems, and effects (Kwong, 1996).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11314", "words": "4185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Cookson, Peter W. Jr.", "title": "Privatization and Educational Equity: Can Markets Create a Just School System?", "date": "1998", "keywords": "argument; economy; education; markets; percent; public; school; skills; theory", "summary": "Do social markets operate in similar ways to commodities markets? The history of the twentieth century could be read as the enduring and fierce competition among states for economic resources and economic markets.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11315", "words": "4126", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Glenn, Charles", "title": "Why are Progressives so Hostile to School Choice Policies?", "date": "1998", "keywords": "catholic; children; choice; dwyer; education; parents; public; schools", "summary": "Religious schools may be permitted as an alternative, but only if they conform themselves to public schools through abandoning such harmful practices as compelling religious expression and practice, teaching secular subjects from a religious perspective\u2026and making children's sense of security and self-worth depend on being saved or meeting unreasonable, divinely ordained standards of conduct (p. 179). The first argument is that most, if not all, religious schools are harmful to children.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11316", "words": "4334", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Cheng, Kai-ming", "title": "Education and Market: How Could It Be Different and What Is New?", "date": "1998", "keywords": "education; knowledge; learning; market; public; schools; society", "summary": "Such definitions reflect the reality that there is a huge gray area between private schools and public schools. One, rich parents whose children failed in public schools backed private schools as a way to provide their children with alternative ways to social success.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11317", "words": "1268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Education in the Market: Free Markets, Flea Markets and Supermarkets", "date": "1998", "keywords": "education; market; schooling; schools", "summary": "\u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol.1(2) 3 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION Education in the Market: Free Markets, Flea Markets and Supermarkets (\u2026) public education, which has been the repository of egalitarian aspirations and opportunities, has become more and more a force for social division and inequality. Striving toward greater accountability within public schools and focusing on insuring that choice function equitably, Glenn lauds the efforts of the choice movement in public schools and encourages furthering these programs in Why are progressives so hostile to school choice policies?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11318", "words": "3896", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Pasalic-Kreso, Adila", "title": "Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Minority Inclusion and Majority Rules The system of education in BiH as a paradigm of political violence on education", "date": "1999", "keywords": "bih; children; curricula; education; majority; minority; paris; school; system", "summary": "What type of education system is appropriate to a country in transition, such as BiH? What values should dominate such education systems?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11319", "words": "4420", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bernath, Tania; Holland, Tracey; Martin, Paul", "title": "How can human rights education contribute to international peace building?", "date": "1999", "keywords": "conflict; education; hre; human; institutions; international; peace; post; rights", "summary": "International human rights should function as universal reference points, common to, and relevant to the acts of both the local population and international peacekeepers (Baekey & Gabriel, 1991). In so doing, they have, at least in the abstract, appeared to recognize not only that human rights are an essential component of just societies, but that human rights education is a necessary element in the process of re-establishing stable and just post-war societies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11320", "words": "8548", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Flores, Joaquin E.", "title": "Schooling, Family, and Individual Factors Mitigating Psychological Effects of War on Children", "date": "1999", "keywords": "anxiety; children; community; effects; exposure; group; ptsd; salvador; study; symptoms; violence; war; war exposure", "summary": "Children having had friends wounded or killed in the war, and reports by the parent or guardian of children experiencing psychological distress, were significant predictors of high anxiety levels. Children who had friends wounded or killed in the war were 5.2 times more likely to develop PTSD than children who did not.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11321", "words": "3740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Lowicki, Jane", "title": "Political Violence and Education: Missing out - adolescents affected by armed conflict face few education opportunities and increased protection risks", "date": "1999", "keywords": "adolescents; children; conflict; education; opportunities; refugee; school; unhcr", "summary": "Internally Political Violence and Education: Missing out - adolescents affected by armed conflict face few education opportunities and increased protection risks Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol.2(1) 45 displaced adolescents, who may have little to no access to humanitarian assistance or protection and may be at higher risk of continued exposure to violence, are even worse off than refugee adolescents. Although only a minority of refugee adolescents may be ready for secondary education, its availability often serves as an incentive for adolescent participation in basic education opportunities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11322", "words": "6316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Chevannes, Barry", "title": "What You Sow Is What You Reap: Violence and the Construction of Male Identity in Jamaica", "date": "1999", "keywords": "boys; children; community; education; identity; jamaica; kingston; life; male; parents; school; work", "summary": "In an era in which the greatest social sin among young males today is to dis, that is to show disrespect, the gun is the ultimate guarantor of respect. The problem can be addressed by targeting this population and, given our understanding of their peculiarities as young males, co-opting and bringing them in from the cold and from the margins.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11323", "words": "3764", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ntshoe, Isaac M.", "title": "The Impact of Political Violence on Education in South Africa: Past, Present and Future", "date": "1999", "keywords": "africa; apartheid; education; policy; schools; south; south africa; violence", "summary": "On the other hand, while political violence was at the heart of the apartheid agenda, violence was also used as a tool to challenge the dominant power structure and government of South Africa. Interestingly, the escalation of political violence that targeted the education community during the apartheid era helped to raise international awareness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11324", "words": "4384", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Clayton, Thomas", "title": "Education under Occupation: Political Violence, Schooling, and Response in Cambodia, 1979-1989", "date": "1999", "keywords": "cambodia; education; khmer; occupation; rouge; soviet; students; training; vietnamese", "summary": "Several high-ranking members of the government, for instance, actively advanced socialist principles as political education teachers during the occupation. Finally, Attitude to the Common People aimed to improve the attitude of the intellectual revolutionary toward the common people (for a detailed discussion of political education during the occupation, see Clayton, forthcoming b).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11325", "words": "4744", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Vally, Salim; Dolombisa, Yolanda; Porteus, Kim", "title": "Violence in South African Schools", "date": "1999", "keywords": "african; black; education; learners; policy; racism; schools; south; students; teachers; violence", "summary": "In black schools, apartheid education meant minimal levels of resources, inadequately trained and few staff, poor quality of learning materials, shortages of classrooms, and the absence of laboratories and libraries. \u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 80 November 15, 1999 Violence in South African Schools1 Salim Vally Educational Policy Unit University of the Witwatersrand with Yolanda Dolombisa and Kim Porteus Introduction While the world was riveted by the media coverage of the horrific massacre of 13 high school students in the United States in April of this year, the litany of violent acts in South African schools this year alone far surpassed in number the tragedy in Colorado.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11326", "words": "2528", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Chung, Fay", "title": "Education: A Key to Power and a Tool for Change--A Practitioner's Perspective", "date": "1999", "keywords": "access; education; key; new; power; schools", "summary": "The ad hoc approach to education in emergencies has meant that education programs were frequently designed on the spot by well-intentioned aid workers, but often without the professional assistance or the requisite experience. After a more thorough understanding of the scope of the problems, these agencies should provide greater technical as well as financial support to education programs in emergency situations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11327", "words": "4517", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Brochman, Helge; Midttun, Eldrid K.", "title": "Human Rights Education and Peace Building", "date": "1999", "keywords": "conflict; education; hre; methods; nrc; program; rights; school; teachers", "summary": "The Caucasus educators have discussed the idea of having HRE teachers meet across the borders, perhaps at some point bringing school children as well. Our experiences confirm that HRE programs should be very aware of the practical realities and school facilities in the area of intervention.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11328", "words": "1295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Political Violence and Education", "date": "1999", "keywords": "conflict; education; peace; violence", "summary": "Belge Brochmann and Eldrid K. Midttun, in Human rights education and peace building, broaden the scope of human rights education slightly by presenting it as a preventive measure which can reduce the risk of conflict occurring or recurring, as well as set important standards for countries in transition from authoritarian rule to democratic Political Violence and Education Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol.2(1) 5 societies. With human rights, conflict resolution and peace education receiving increased international attention as positive interventions for countries in transition from war to peace, Paul Martin, Tania Bernath and Tracey Holland delineate the necessary components of human rights education programs in conflict and post-conflict regions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11329", "words": "5045", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Kamat, Sangeeta", "title": "Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Decentralization: The State in Education Reform", "date": "2000", "keywords": "bank; decentralization; education; globalization; lefebvre; new; policy; reform; state; world", "summary": "State policies such as decentralization thus need to be analyzed in terms of how certain alliances are strengthened and certain others weakened. In this paper, I challenge the commonplace notion that decentralization of education implies a weakening of state power--a notion that is often forwarded by both supporters and critics of state power.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11330", "words": "4529", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Henales, Lidia; Edwards, Beatrice", "title": "Neo-liberalism and educational reform in Latin America", "date": "2000", "keywords": "america; education; income; latin; latin america; liberalism; neo; policies; reform; schools", "summary": "Instead, neo-liberal policies took root in Latin America due to the weakness of both the economies and the democratic political systems in place. Although neo-liberal economic policies had been thoroughly discredited as a means of improving living standards and income, these same market-oriented policies were now to be extended to educational reform, which emerged as the most promising tool of the neo-liberals for maintaining their claim to social responsibility.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11331", "words": "5611", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Scoppio, Grazia", "title": "Common Trends of Standardisation, Accountability, Devolution and Choice in the Educational Policies of England, U.K., California, U.S.A., and Ontario, Canada", "date": "2000", "keywords": "california; choice; curriculum; education; england; funding; ontario; policies; schools; students; testing", "summary": "Although previous policies had been aimed at de-streaming, streaming has been re- introduced in high schools with two streams of courses, namely academic and applied. As knowledge is distributed through formal education, school systems are converging across many developed nations (Davies and Guppy, 1997).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11332", "words": "5629", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Johnson, Bonnie; Chhetri, Nalini", "title": "Exclusionary Policies and Practices in Chinese Minority Education: The Case of Tibetan Education", "date": "2000", "keywords": "china; chinese; education; government; language; minority; school; students; tibetan", "summary": "Gerard Postiglione and other experts in Chinese minority education believe that to reduce the exclusionary nature of the language policy, China needs to construct a strong Bonnie Johnson and Nalini Chhetri 148 April 30, 2002 bilingual education program. In China, as elsewhere, scarcities of human resources (qualified minority language teachers) and material resources (texts and materials in minority languages) are obstacles to the implementation and effectiveness of bilingual education policies (Postiglione, 1999, p. 95).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11333", "words": "6415", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Mook, Laurie", "title": "Exclusion and Inclusion in Student-Faculty Informal Interaction: A Critical Perspective", "date": "2000", "keywords": "ability; achievement; college; concept; education; faculty; groups; interaction; research; school; self; students; study", "summary": "\u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 154 April 30, 2002 Exclusion and Inclusion in Student-Faculty Informal Interaction: A Critical Perspective Laurie Mook University of Alberta, Canada Introduction The impact of student-faculty interaction on higher education students has been the object of countless studies and journal articles. Similarly, Oakes (1985) found that the intelligent quotient (IQ) scores of senior high school students decreased after they were put in lower streams.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11334", "words": "5789", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kline, Rachel", "title": "A Model for Improving Rural Schools: Escuela Nueva in Colombia and Guatemala", "date": "2000", "keywords": "colombia; education; escuela; model; neu; nueva; reform; schools; students; teachers", "summary": "Meanwhile, a group of rural primary school teachers in the Department (state) of Norte de Santander developed their own solution to the problem of multi-grade schooling. In 1987, Psacharopoulos et al. (1993) evaluated data gathered by Instituto SER de Investigacion, concluding that students in EN schools scored significantly higher in third grade Spanish and math, and fifth grade Spanish than students in traditional rural schools.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11335", "words": "4738", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Lesko, Nancy", "title": "Making Adolescence at the Turn of the Century: Discourse and the Exclusion of Girls", "date": "2000", "keywords": "adolescence; boys; education; girls; justice; juvenile; new; school; sexuality", "summary": "Sexual precocity was most feared, and state intervention in the U.S. around adolescent girls was generally Nancy Lesko 184 April 30, 2002 around issues of sexuality. The technology of adolescence, which included the control of sexuality, separate juvenile justice facilities for delinquents (Bakan, 1972), and segregation of girls' and boys' curricular areas in increasing years of compulsory schooling, served to create certain kinds of persons within certain particular social arrangements1.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11336", "words": "1102", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "22", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Education and Social Exclusion", "date": "2000", "keywords": "decentralization; education; exclusion; school", "summary": "Initiatives, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) have aimed to universalize education as a right for all children, yet the realities of social exclusion continue to plague education efforts, with particularly problematic results for children from disadvantaged groups. Sangeeta Kamat critically examines the discourse of decentralization and educational reform in Deconstructing the rhetoric of decentralization: The state in education reform.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11337", "words": "3218", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Vandemoortele, Jan; Delamonica, Enrique", "title": "The \"Education Vaccine\" Against HIV", "date": "2000", "keywords": "aids; education; hiv; infection; level; women", "summary": "If the hypothesis holds true that, beyond the initial stage of the AIDS pandemic, education reduces the risk of HIV infection, then new HIV infections will gradually become concentrated among illiterate and poor people as the epidemic spreads among the population. HIV infection rate among young women by level of education However, the correlation between sero-prevalence and education was no longer observed for the age group 15-19, the group that became sexually active a decade later when information on the pandemic was more widespread.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11338", "words": "6615", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Coombe, Carol", "title": "Keeping the Education System Healthy: Managing the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education in South Africa", "date": "2000", "keywords": "africa; aids; department; education; educators; government; health; hiv; impact; south; south africa; system", "summary": "The Consequences of the Pandemic: Projections to 20102 1999 2005 2010 Percentage of SA workforce HIV positive 11.5% 20% 22.5% Percentage of SA workforce AIDS sick 0.4% 1.65% 2.7% New AIDS cases per annum 145,256 466,365 625,180 Number of AIDS orphans 153,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 Life expectancy of SA females (years) 54 43 37 Life expectancy of SA males (years) 50 43 38 HIV/AIDS will cause productivity to decline in all sectors because of illness on the job, absenteeism due to personal or family illness, and funeral attendance. It has been predicted that by 2005 6 million South Africans will be HIV positive and 2.5 million will have died of AIDS or a related illness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11339", "words": "5516", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Kelly, Michael J.", "title": "Standing Education on its Head: Aspects of Schooling in a World with HIV/AIDS", "date": "2000", "keywords": "aids; children; education; hiv; infection; issues; people; programs; school; teachers; world", "summary": "The content, process, methodology, role and organization of school education in a world with HIV/AIDS must be radically altered. The first tentative steps, therefore, in the radical transformation of school education could be to learn from and put in practice the positive lessons coming from HIV/AIDS education programs addressed to out-of-school youth in non-formal settings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11340", "words": "7278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Malambo, Rosah Moonga", "title": "Teach Them While They Are Young, They Will Live to Remember\u2028The views of teachers and pupils on the teaching of HIV/AIDS in basic education: A case study of Zambia's Lusaka and Southern Provinces", "date": "2000", "keywords": "aids; children; education; hiv; parents; pupils; school; sex; teachers; teaching", "summary": "Other pupils added that their family members might think that each and every family member discovers about such things like AIDS from other people or because everyone in our home knows about it, so they express less concern about discussing it. Documents reviewed include the MOE policy on the implementation of the integration of HIV/AIDS teaching, a proposal on the integration of Psychosocial Life Skills, three textbooks used in the teaching of HIV/AIDS in schools (MacMillan and Longman Health Education Readers, Teaching AIDS and Kalulu).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11341", "words": "2325", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Sachs, Johnny", "title": "South Africa as the Epicenter of HIV/AIDS: Vital Political Legacies and Current Debates", "date": "2000", "keywords": "africa; aids; health; hiv; south", "summary": "\u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 52 December 1, 2000 South Africa as the Epicenter of HIV/AIDS: Vital Political Legacies and Current Debates Johnny Sachs Emeritus Reader, University of London, UK Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa Introduction South Africa now is the world's epicenter for the rapid increase of HIV and AIDS. Current Political Debates Above I have outlined some of the legacies of apartheid affecting the spread of HIV and AIDS in South Africa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11342", "words": "4671", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "de Sousa, Isabela Cabral Fe\u0301lix; Cruz, Fundac\u0327a\u0303o Oswaldo", "title": "Conceptual and Practical Approaches to HIV/AIDS: The Brazilian Experience", "date": "2000", "keywords": "aids; brazil; brazilian; education; health; hiv; infections; promotion; resources; social; women", "summary": "It is often assumed that health education can protect health status if people learn to avoid the behaviors leading to the spread of HIV infection. (Peixinho et al., 1990), women are recognized increasingly as a group at risk for HIV infection and for developing AIDS.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11343", "words": "2591", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Vavrus, Frances", "title": "The Contributions of Cultural Theory to the Study of AIDS and Education", "date": "2000", "keywords": "africa; aids; disease; education; epidemic; health; theory", "summary": "\u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 66 December 1, 2000 The Contributions of Cultural Theory to the Study of AIDS and Education Frances Vavrus Teachers College, Columbia University The social and biomedical dimensions of AIDS coalesce in the field of education as students and teachers struggle to make sense out of the multiple, and oftentimes conflicting, messages about the disease circulating inside and outside their classrooms. Johnny Sachs (this issue) provides a poignant example of this struggle in the case of South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki has questioned the prevailing view that HIV causes AIDS and can be effectively treated with anti-retroviral drugs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11344", "words": "1476", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Deadly Education: The Spread of HIV/AIDS", "date": "2000", "keywords": "aids; education; health; hiv", "summary": "Given the potential consequences of the changing profile of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Deadly Education: The Spread of HIV/AIDS 4 December 1, 2000 the authors the urgency for achieving universal primary education in order to equip the poor with the basic capabilities to protect themselves against HIV infection. In his article Standing Education on its Head, Kelly describes how school participation can enhance the risk of HIV infection.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11345", "words": "5270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Mullinix, Bonnie B.", "title": "Nurturing Partnership: A Southern African Continuum of Flexible Stages in Partnership Development", "date": "2001", "keywords": "continuum; development; education; mullinix; ngos; organizations; partnership; project; support; world", "summary": "The model of partnership development shared emerges from five years of experience grounded in the Southern African context and based on World Education's practical experience working in a variety of partnership arrangements with over 120 NGOs in various parts of Africa. A typology of social partnership organizations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11346", "words": "4799", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Maslak, Mary Ann", "title": "The \"SWAP\": One Financial Strategy for Educational Development in Nepal", "date": "2001", "keywords": "approach; bpep; country; development; education; government; nepal; programs; project; sector", "summary": "In an effort to streamline the multitudinous non-formal educational programs offered by INGOs and NGOs and coordinate these with government services, Nepal's educational planners, supported by the social-service division of the national government, designed the Out-Of-School Program (OSP) for use in non-formal educational programs in Nepal. Based on the successful Lahachok experience, the Seti project in Nepal's Far Western Development Region, initiated by the Ministry of Education and Culture, is another example of the project approach to educational development in Nepal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11347", "words": "4130", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Weidman, John C.", "title": "Developing the Mongolia Education Sector Strategy 2000-2005: Reflections of a Consultant for the Asian Development Bank", "date": "2001", "keywords": "development; education; government; mongolia; mostec; project; sector; stakeholders; strategy; training", "summary": "The drafts were submitted to a national workshop on education sector strategies 2000-05, held in Ulaanbaatar on June 10, 1999, for further consideration and reactions. This included significant support (e.g. books, equipment, training of academics and researchers) for Mongolian education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11348", "words": "5365", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Klees, Steven J.", "title": "World Bank Development Policy: A SAP in SWAPs Clothing", "date": "2001", "keywords": "bank; development; education; new; partnership; poverty; sector; swaps; world; world bank", "summary": "World Bank Development Policy: A SAP in SWAPs Clothing Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 3(2) 121 World Bank (2001a). In discussing its comparative advantages as an aid agency it points out that The Bank can use its position as the largest external source of funds in most developing countries to encourage other partners to contribute to priority activities (World Bank, 1999, p. 21).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11349", "words": "4375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Popkewitz, Thomas S.", "title": "Pacts / Partnerships and Governing the Parent and Child", "date": "2001", "keywords": "child; community; education; new; partnership; school; state; teacher", "summary": "My strategy is a synthetic presentation of the knowledge of schooling that forms a contour of U.S. and in some instances, European teacher and teacher education reforms. The New Expertise of the Teacher The call for democracy in contemporary teacher and teacher education reforms embodies new types of expertise.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11350", "words": "820", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Sector-Wide Approaches in Education: Coordination or Chaos?", "date": "2001", "keywords": "development; education; partnership", "summary": "While highlighting the nonlinear form that partnership development inevitably takes, she simultaneously provides the beginnings of a useful map which lays out the costs and benefits for the increasing number of organizations travelling beyond cooperation and collaboration in educational development. His research demonstrates that a myriad of viewpoints can help strengthen policy development but suggests that greater work needs to be done to identify common issues and linkages across strategies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11351", "words": "5309", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Snauwaert, Dale T.", "title": "Cosmopolitan Democracy and Democratic Education", "date": "2001", "keywords": "democracy; education; human; new; press; rights; self; university; war", "summary": "The recognition of international human rights in the world community begins in the post-World War II era with the Nuremberg Trial, Judgment, and Obligation, which formed the basis of the United Nations (UN) Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent international human rights laws and conventions (Nuremberg, 1970). Microsoft Word - 41snauwaert.doc \u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 4(2) 5 Cosmopolitan Democracy and Democratic Education Dale T. Snauwaert Adelphi University The purpose of this paper is to explore the close connection between the principles of democracy and the cosmopolitan nature of international human rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11352", "words": "4735", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Ardizzone, Leonisa", "title": "Towards Global Understanding: The Transformative Role of Peace Education", "date": "2001", "keywords": "conflict; education; peace; peace education; programs; social; understanding; violence; world", "summary": "Peace education has always been concerned with understanding the root causes of all forms of violence and their subsequent eradication. Historical Perspective on Education for Peace Originally a study of the causes of war and its prevention, peace education has evolved into the study of violence in all its manifestations and educating to counteract the war system for the creation of a peace system; a peace system on both the structural and individual level1.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11353", "words": "4863", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Dyrness, Andrea", "title": "Popular Education and Post-War Democratization: The Case of PENNAT, Guatemala", "date": "2001", "keywords": "children; education; guatemala; new; pennat; program; street; war; working; youth", "summary": "This paper explores these questions by examining a non-governmental program of popular education for working children and youth in Guatemala. PENNAT,' or Programa Educativo del Ni\u00f1o, Ni\u00f1a y Adolescente Trabajador (Educational Program for Child and Adolescent Workers), is an alternative educational program created for working children who are unable to attend regular school.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11354", "words": "7672", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kaunda, Zikani; Kendall, Nancy", "title": "Prospects of Educating for Democracy in Struggling Third Wave Regimes: The Case of Malawi", "date": "2001", "keywords": "culture; democracy; education; efforts; government; information; malawi; people; role; school; society; state", "summary": "The Logic of Current Efforts to Educate for Democracy Taken individually, the efforts to educate for democracy described above appear flawed in quite different ways. The Future of Education for Democracy in Malawi A mainstream view of the role of education in supporting democracy is: Even though many Africans interpret democracy in universal terms, and value it intrinsically as well as instrumentally, their understanding of democratic principles is extremely vague.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11355", "words": "940", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Education for Democracy in the Post-Development Era: What Will the Curtain Reveal?", "date": "2001", "keywords": "democracy; education; peace", "summary": "Editorial Introduction 4 December 18, 2001 Writing from a similar perspective, Andrea Dyrness, in Popular education and post-war democratization The case of PENNAT, Guatemala, argues that in Guatemala, education for democracy must also address the culture of terror and the culture of fear that the civil war has left behind. By implication then, traditional approaches to civic education may be held partially accountable for global conflict in failing to promote critical thinking, intercultural understanding and (\u2026) a long history of structural violence within a global culture of war.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11356", "words": "6297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Abdenur, Adriana", "title": "Tilting the North-South Axis: The legitimization of Southern Development Knowledge and its Implications for Comparative Education Research", "date": "2002", "keywords": "assistance; cooperation; countries; development; education; knowledge; new; north; scholars; south; transfer; world", "summary": "Recent issues of Cooperation South, which tracks cooperation among developing countries, include an essay on India's Technical Cooperation Programme, which provides scholarships for academic exchanges with other developing countries and has sent around 500 Indian experts to assist in development projects elsewhere (Parthasarathi, 2000); a report on the Africa-Asia Business Forum, a coalition of 350 African and Asian business executives who meet regularly to promote trade, share ideas, and carry out collaborations in the form of joint ventures and technology transfers (Windows on the South, 1999); and a description of a free-email project begun by Costa Rica and currently being expanded throughout Central America and the Dominican Republic (Windows on the South, 2000). Despite the sometimes radical overtones of this discourse, it was far more than hot air; indeed, this discourse accompanied concrete changes in the cooperation practices--most notably the establishment of government agencies in developing countries geared specifically at fomenting collaboration with other developing countries--that in turn signaled new sources of legitimacy for development knowledge.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11357", "words": "4856", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Bray, Mark", "title": "Comparative education in East Asia: Growth, development and contributions to the global field", "date": "2002", "keywords": "asia; comparative; development; east; education; field; societies; society; world", "summary": "The development of comparative education societies in the region, it must be admitted, has not been entirely linear and smooth. Microsoft Word - 42bray.doc \u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 70 May 14, 2002 Comparative education in East Asia: Growth, development and contributions to the global field Mark Bray Comparative Education Research Center The University of Hong Kong In recent decades, the field of comparative education in East Asia has grown dramatically.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11358", "words": "2464", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Crossley, Michael", "title": "Comparative and International Education: Contemporary Challenges, Reconceptualization and New Directions for the Field", "date": "2002", "keywords": "crossley; education; field; globalization; research", "summary": "Microsoft Word - 42crossley.doc \u00a9 2002 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 4(2) 81 Comparative and International Education: Contemporary Challenges, Reconceptualization and New Directions for the Field Michael Crossley Research Center for International and Comparative Studies Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol United Kingdom Introduction In this article the contemporary challenges faced by the field of comparative and international education are considered in the light of work relating to two recent special numbers of the journal Comparative Education, titled Comparative Education for the Twenty-first Century (Crossley & Jarvis 2000; Crossley with Jarvis 2001).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11359", "words": "940", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Education for Democracy in the Post-Development Era: What Will the Curtain Reveal?", "date": "2002", "keywords": "democracy; education; peace", "summary": "Editorial Introduction 4 December 18, 2001 Writing from a similar perspective, Andrea Dyrness, in Popular education and post-war democratization The case of PENNAT, Guatemala, argues that in Guatemala, education for democracy must also address the culture of terror and the culture of fear that the civil war has left behind. By implication then, traditional approaches to civic education may be held partially accountable for global conflict in failing to promote critical thinking, intercultural understanding and (\u2026) a long history of structural violence within a global culture of war.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11360", "words": "4115", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Stromquist, Nelly P.", "title": "Globalization, the I, and the Other", "date": "2002", "keywords": "countries; education; educators; globalization; issues; new; reforms; research; schools; stromquist", "summary": "(For a parallel discussion of globalization challenges to comparative education research, see Marginson and Mollis, 2001.) Consequences of this for comparative education is the necessary connection to be established between health and education, both for children and adolescents in school and for adolescents and adults out of the formal education system.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11361", "words": "9930", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Boldt, Gail Masuchika", "title": "Toward a Reconceptualization of Gender and Power in an Elementary Classroom", "date": "2002", "keywords": "argument; boys; children; classroom; education; gender; girls; new; power; school; things", "summary": "When I worked to set up equitable systems in the classroom, making sure that everyone had equal access to all of the computer equipment, for example, and then I saw a girl declining to take advantage of this and choosing to play pet store owner with other girls instead, I was convinced that the girl had made the wrong decision, even when she declared herself to be happy and well occupied. Does the role of she who cleans mean the same thing when my mother accepted it, when it was forced onto my sister and me, and when many girls seem to choose it in the context of the classroom?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11362", "words": "7161", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ginsberg, Alice E.", "title": "Building on Student Knowledge: A New Frame for Gender Equity in Education The Transcends the Sameness/Difference Dichotomy", "date": "2002", "keywords": "boys; education; gate; gender; girls; issues; program; school; students; teachers; women", "summary": "Many students knew someone who was locked up or knew someone who knew someone in jail. One group of elementary school teachers, for example, consistently tried to minimize any differences or inequities between children in their school--noting that the problems began at the middle and high school levels, and that their concern was preparing children for this transition.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11363", "words": "6659", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Magno, Cathryn", "title": "Minding the Political Gap: The Educational Imperatives of NGOs", "date": "2002", "keywords": "capital; education; feminist; israel; knowledge; new; ngos; politics; society; women; world", "summary": "However, women have found a forum for participation in civil society, specifically through NGO activities focusing on conflict resolution and other women's issues.[8] Indeed, on the international level, the far-reaching recognition of the human rights of women, for example, can be seen in terms of the Fourth World Conference on Women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11364", "words": "6669", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Vavrus, Frances", "title": "Constructing Consensus: The Feminist Modern and the Reconstruction of Gender", "date": "2002", "keywords": "culture; development; education; feminist; gender; international; modern; policies; policy; population; women; world", "summary": "We can begin to consider the ways that crises are policed by examining the problems and solutions specified in international development policies, such as those addressing the critical issues of population, HIV/AIDS, and environmental degradation. Neoliberalism, in its political and economic facets, has had a profound effect on development policies in the Third World, owing to the fact that the leading international financial institutions--the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB)- -have generally embraced the view that the role of the state should be minimized in the development process (Adelman, 2001).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11365", "words": "2021", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Beyond \u201cGender Sensitization\u201d and \u201cGender Mainstreaming\u201d: Comparative and International Education towards the Democratic \u201cRe-construction\u201d of Gender", "date": "2002", "keywords": "agency; boldt; education; gender; girls; women", "summary": "\u00a9 2002 Current Issues In Comparative Education Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues In Comparative Education, Vol. 5(1) 3 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION Beyond Gender Sensitization and Gender Mainstreaming: Comparative and International Education towards the Democratic Re-construction of Gender This issue of CICE is devoted to furthering our understanding of the complex ways in which gender relations are constructed and maintained within educational settings and of the implications of gender discourses produced within these contexts, or in relation to education, for reconstructing a more truly democratic gender order (Connell, 1987). Both Boldt and Ginsberg reconfirm that what we need in order to promote gender equity is much more than those adults who are highly aware of gender issues, calling for students' active participation in the democratic re- construction of gender.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11366", "words": "1422", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kim, Joyce", "title": "Practical Challenges to NLS (Response to \u201cWhat\u2019s \u2018New\u2019 in New Literacy Studies\u201d)", "date": "2003", "keywords": "literacy; new; nls; practices", "summary": "As fascinating as these recent developments are, perhaps there should be an analytic framework of some kind of mapping, a typology if you will, of these conceptual apparatuses concerning different but related issues stemming from literacy practices such as: multilingualism, biliteracy, social theory, text/power/identity, and discourse. Theorizing the space of literacy practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11367", "words": "847", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Rosario, Mercedes del; Warren, Nanda", "title": "Response to \u201cWhose Language Is It Anyway? Historical Fetishism and the Construction of Expertise in Bolivian Language Planning\u201d", "date": "2003", "keywords": "language; luykx", "summary": "By challenging some widespread assumptions about language revitalization and the way indigenous languages should be written and used in schools, Luykx opens the door to considering more effective strategies for improving the condition of marginalized indigenous groups. However, although she successfully calls attention to the effects of standardization on marginalization of indigenous languages in Bolivia in particular and the Andean region in general, Luykx fails to provide alternative means to foster language fortification and revitalization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11368", "words": "1887", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Kleifgen, Jo Anne", "title": "Afterword: Theories, Policies, Practices", "date": "2003", "keywords": "education; language; literacy; policies; policy", "summary": "So how does all this complexity in terms of language policy and multilingual populations affect educational practice? Language policy in schools: A resource for teachers and administrators.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11369", "words": "7620", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Street, Brian", "title": "What\u2019s \u2018New\u2019 in New Literacy Studies? Critical Approaches to Literacy in Theory and Practice", "date": "2003", "keywords": "contexts; education; literacies; literacy; local; new; nls; practice; research; social; street; studies; theory", "summary": "As we shall see when we discuss practical applications of NLS across educational contexts, it is the recognition of this hybridity that lies at the heart of an NLS approach to literacy acquisition regarding the relationship between local literacy practices and those of the school. My own work, for instance, begins with the notion of multiple literacies, which makes a distinction between autonomous and ideological models of literacy (Street, 1985) and develops a distinction between literacy events and literacy practices (Street, 1988).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11370", "words": "5363", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Luykx, Aurolyn", "title": "Whose Language Is It Anyway? Historical Fetishism and the Construction of Expertise in Bolivian Language Planning", "date": "2003", "keywords": "aymara; bolivian; education; ideologies; language; new; planners; planning; policies; quechua; speakers; standard", "summary": "Language ideology plays an important role in shaping language policy, and policy in turn shapes the social and institutional conditions that encourage certain kinds of language use and discourage others. Conclusions The last few decades have made abundantly clear that language planning is not an exact science; language policies have effects both on language ideologies and language use, but not always the desired effects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11371", "words": "6261", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Ingulsrud, John; Allen, Kate", "title": "First Steps to Literacy in Chinese Classrooms", "date": "2003", "keywords": "allen; characters; children; china; chinese; education; language; learning; literacy; putonghua; school; teacher", "summary": "Consequently, in the design of the cover of Learning to read in China: Sociolinguistic perspectives on the acquisition of literacy (Ingulsrud & Allen, 1999), we added English as part of the total literacy package for Chinese children: The additional burden of learning to speak the standard language, particularly for children who do not speak the standard at home, puts many Chinese children in a similar position to children in post-colonial societies who attend school conducted in the medium of a foreign language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11372", "words": "3953", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Bartlett, Lesley", "title": "Social Studies of Literacy and Comparative Education", "date": "2003", "keywords": "development; education; literacy; new; power; press; social; studies; york", "summary": "Literacy studies and comparative education The fields of literacy studies and comparative education have some things in common. Ideological analyses of literacy view literacy practices as inextricably linked to cultural and power structures in society, and recognize the variety of cultural practices associated with reading and writing in different contexts (Street 1993: 7).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11373", "words": "5849", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Al-Harthi, Hamood; Ginsburg, Mark B.", "title": "Student-Faculty Power/Knowledge Relations: The Implications of the Internet in the College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University", "date": "2003", "keywords": "education; faculty; internet; knowledge; knowledge relations; power; professors; relations; students; university", "summary": "Faculty control over knowledge evaluation and selection and student regulation discourages students from going beyond knowledge selected by faculty, at least in relation to coursework. For instance, the faculty might organize their courses so that the Internet is used to replicate traditional teacher/professor control over what content students learn and how the learning of that content is evaluated (Dhanarajan, 2000).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11374", "words": "4682", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "23", "author": "Canen, Ana", "title": "Institutional Evaluation, Knowledge and Multiculturalism: Some Ways Ahead in Brazilian Higher Education", "date": "2003", "keywords": "approach; building; canen; cultural; education; evaluation; knowledge; technology", "summary": "I argue that institutional evaluation policies that try to strike a balance between strategies that value culturally distinct institutional approaches to knowledge and those that ensure a regulatory control for quality assurance and institutional accountability are in a better position to help institutional growth. That type of institutional evaluation policy can be said to have silenced multiculturally-oriented perspectives in favor of homogenized, centralized and product-oriented evaluation processes under the guise of objectivity and accountability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11375", "words": "6151", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Foley, Alan", "title": "Distance, Disability, and the Commodification of Education: Web Accessibility and the Construction of Knowledge", "date": "2003", "keywords": "accessibility; content; disabilities; disability; distance; education; instruction; internet; learning; technology; university; web", "summary": "As part of this analysis, distance education technology and web accessibility standards are discussed and the notion of marketizing disability is explored within the context of shifts toward online instruction. At the same time, there is often little discussion of how to support these individuals within web accessibility policies themselves - policies are often unfunded mandates.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11376", "words": "4730", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Mfum-Mensah, Obed", "title": "Computers in Ghanaian Secondary Schools: Where Does Equality Come in?", "date": "2003", "keywords": "education; equality; ghana; ict; implementation; policy; schools; students; system", "summary": "On the contrary, most students enrolled in rural secondary schools have never set eyes on a computer. Over the years, the government did not embark on its promises, hence the persistent wide urban and rural gap in the standards of secondary school system.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11377", "words": "4201", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Shin, Sughee; Cho, Eun Kyeong", "title": "The Culturally Situated Process of Knowledge Production in a Virtual Community: A Case of Hypertext Analysis from a University\u2019s ClassWeb Discussion Boards", "date": "2003", "keywords": "classweb; community; discussion; knowledge; process; production; students; technology", "summary": "The lengthy and non-oral style texts posted by this group of students seem to be the result of their conscious awareness of being watched by other students as well as the instructor. Thus, ClassWeb discussion boards may be considered not only as a tool for learning, but also as a virtual community.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11378", "words": "595", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "26", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Technology for All? The Impact of Technology of Knowledge Production and Educational Development", "date": "2003", "keywords": "knowledge; technology", "summary": "The impact of technology on knowledge production and educational development As modern technology is rapidly changing the nature of knowledge production, it is becoming increasingly important in the field of educational development to examine whether, as a result, these changes are fostering inclusion or creating greater disparity. Canen's Institutional Evaluation, Knowledge and Multiculturalism: Some ways ahead in Brazilian higher education illustrates how such policies seem to support a product- oriented approach to education and knowledge production.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11379", "words": "7405", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Burde, Dana", "title": "Weak State, Strong Community: Promoting Community Participation in Post-Conflict Countries", "date": "2004", "keywords": "capital; community; community participation; conflict; development; education; participation; program; school; services; society; state; teachers", "summary": "Thus, community participation in educational governance has become part of the formula to achieve both traditional development goals and social reconstruction after a conflict. The purpose of this article is to explore the effects of community participation in school governance, as an element of development and humanitarian assistance programs, on social capital and civil society building.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11380", "words": "5489", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Clemons, Andrea; Vogt, Christina M.", "title": "Theorizing, Restructuring, and Rethinking Nonformal Education in the Context of Education Decentralization", "date": "2004", "keywords": "communities; community; decentralization; development; east; ecb; education; initiatives; ngo; nonformal; school; women", "summary": "By analyzing the intersection of intention, interpretation, perception, and inaction, both the East and West African cases make evident the obstacles of contested notions of participatory development in nonformal education initiatives. As the global and national discussions of education development slowly move away from the question of how to get more children into traditional classrooms towards how to enable more children (and adults) to achieve agreed upon learning outcomes, the face of educational initiatives has been remaking itself.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11381", "words": "6450", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Lewis, Suzanne Grant; Naidoo, Jordan", "title": "Whose Theory of Participation? School Governance Policy and Practice in South Africa", "date": "2004", "keywords": "africa; education; governance; government; parents; participation; policy; practice; school; sgb; south; theory", "summary": "Participation In examining school governance practices in South Africa, initially one gets a picture of increased involvement of parents in school governance, and the ideal situation of all stakeholders working together and making decisions by consensus in pursuit of a common interest. A critical examination of the development of school governance policy and its implications for achieving equity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11382", "words": "12968", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "91", "author": "Makuwira, Jonathan", "title": "Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Participatory Development in Basic Education in Malawi", "date": "2004", "keywords": "cs 0; development; education; tj et; tm tm", "summary": "Tm Tm (a) re W81 Tj 45 0 0 45 12y70 n587.52 768 re W 0 ge onH a n a nlr d ed ed gei e e t e e i (o) Tm Tj 45 0 45 0 0 Tm /F2D024T 45 0 0 45 0 0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11383", "words": "2354", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Kapoor, Ilan", "title": "Concluding Remarks: The Power of Participation", "date": "2004", "keywords": "consensus; development; participation; participatory; power; world", "summary": "One of the ultimate ironies of participatory development is that we may well be asking more of Third World communities than we ask of ourselves. While communities may initially dislike or be suspicious of participatory development, it is not inconceivable that, gradually, they develop an interest in participation: NGO or government officials may find it helps monitor the community; husbands/fathers may use it to keep a tab on their wives/children; elites may see in it an opportunity for keeping dissent in check; and everyone may enjoy it for its production of gossip and rumor about friends and neighbors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11384", "words": "311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Participatory Development: A Promise Revisited", "date": "2004", "keywords": "participatory", "summary": "As diverse answers to the questions above are brought to the fore, it is critical that we continue to look more closely at the theories and methods related to participatory development and question its more common assumptions. The devil's in the theory: A critical assessment of Robert Chamber's work on participatory development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11385", "words": "4635", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Adely, Fida", "title": "Learning and Teaching about Participatory Development: The Practical and Theoretical Changes", "date": "2004", "keywords": "challenges; community; development; issues; participatory; pra; students; work", "summary": "May 10, 2004 \u00a9 2004 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 64 ESSAY Learning and Teaching about Participatory Development: The Practical and Theoretical Challenges Fida Adely School of International and Public Affairs Columbia University Introduction Since the 1970s, participatory development has become part and parcel of most practitioner-oriented development studies programs. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is one approach to participatory development that has received much attention and is the source of much debate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11386", "words": "7238", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Douglass, Susan L.; Shaikh, Munir", "title": "Defining Islamic Education: Differentiation and Applications", "date": "2004", "keywords": "douglass; education; faith; history; institutions; islamic; knowledge; muslim; qur'an; religion; schools; teaching; use; world", "summary": "In its most literal sense, Islamic education can refer to efforts by the Muslim community to educate its own, to pass along the heritage of Islamic knowledge, first and foremost through its primary sources, the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Building on this foundation, the article delineates a typology of Islamic education and their associated institutions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11387", "words": "5352", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Panjwani, Farid", "title": "The \u201cIslamic\u201d in Islamic Education: Assessing the Discourse", "date": "2004", "keywords": "approach; discourse; education; history; ideals; islamic; knowledge; muslims; system; time", "summary": "Conception of Islam in 'Islamic' Education Here we come to a central issue within the discourse on Islamic education, namely its underlying conception of Islam. This paper seeks to critically asses these approaches by exploring the following: (i) the construction of arguments for an Islamic approach; (ii) the underlying conception of Islam used in the writings; and, (iii) practical proposals for the implementation of Islamic education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11388", "words": "4550", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Milligan, Jeffrey Ayala", "title": "Islamization or Secularization?: Educational Reform and the Search for Peace in Southern Philippines", "date": "2004", "keywords": "education; government; islamic; madaris; mindanao; muslim; philippines; policy; schools", "summary": "In effect, these reforms aim to integrate what for centuries have been two separate systems of education: government education and Islamic education. The first of these initiatives involves the Islamization of public education in the region.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11389", "words": "9113", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "81", "author": "Ahmad, Iftikhar", "title": "Islam, Democracy, and Citizenship Education: An Examination of the Social Studies Curriculum in Pakistan", "date": "2004", "keywords": "citizenship; curriculum; education; islamic; pakistan; social; state; studies; textbooks", "summary": "Two reports on the Islamic model of citizenship education in Pakistan illustrate the prevalence of a theocratic vision in social studies textbooks. In The Subtle Subversion: The State of Curricula and Textbooks in Pakistan (2003), Nayyar and Salim demonstrate that social studies textbooks published under the national curriculum guidelines stress Islamic ideology and contain material that can be characterized as insensitive toward non-Muslims and women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11390", "words": "8710", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Pryor, Caroline R.; Eslami-Rasekh, Zohreh", "title": "Iranian and U.S. Pre-service Teachers\u2019 Philosophical Approaches to Teachings: Enhancing Intercultural Understandings", "date": "2004", "keywords": "approach; beliefs; citizen; education; iranian; islamic; knowledge; lesson; new; philosophy; pre; service; teachers; teaching; understanding; values", "summary": "Enhancing Intercultural Understandings Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 7(1) 63 that US pre-service teachers in the early stages of a school-based field-experience report that they use direct instruction lesson plans to help them list and teach the state and district academic standards, keep students on task, and respond to federal mandates to teach in a manner that is measurable and well-regulated (Odell & Huling, 2000). Other reports indicate that US pre-service teachers would prefer an inquiry-teaching model, but are often reluctant to implement this approach ( Gunzenhauser, 2003 ).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11391", "words": "4994", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Rasmussen, Lene Kafoed", "title": "Hijab and the Education of the Self", "date": "2004", "keywords": "education; higab; islamic; islamists; muslim; novel; self; woman", "summary": "At another level the bending and twisting of Islamic concepts such as higab and da`wa might, when put Lene Kofoed Rasmussen 78 December 15, 2004 forward by women who claim to be committed Muslim women, become acknowledged in a wider audience and eventually further learning processes based on reflection, interpretation and arguing. Introduction Among Western observers and Islamic scholars, the most common interpretation of the higab is that of a headscarf or veil worn by Muslim women that is collectively sanctioned to preserve modesty and regulate desire in society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11392", "words": "581", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "18", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Islam and Education", "date": "2004", "keywords": "education; islamic", "summary": "This issue of CICE extends the theoretical debate surrounding education in the Islamic world and examines the different ways in which education in Islamic countries and Islamic education (in predominantly Muslim countries and elsewhere) are being framed by researchers, practitioners, and the media in light of current international affairs. Focusing on the American context, they chart out a typology of Islamic education in various institutions, illuminating concepts of education that are associated with Islam and Muslim educational traditions that are parallel to concepts within Western education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11393", "words": "4309", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hanley, Patrick", "title": "\u201cHolistic yet Tangible\u201d: Embracing the Challenge and Complexity of Education for Sustainable Development", "date": "2005", "keywords": "development; education; esd; interpretations; knowledge; nature; objects", "summary": "ESD curricula cannot concentrate only on one dimension, such as science in exclusion of religious beliefs, or global knowledge in exclusion of local knowledge, or vice versa. Discussion about what theory of knowledge and method of value judgment ESD should cultivate may help ESD avoid the internal schisms that plagued nature study and it may also help ESD avoid the epistemological confinement environmental education finds itself within.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11394", "words": "4526", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Ogunyemi, Biodun", "title": "Mainstreaming Sustainable Development in African School Curricula: Issues for Nigeria", "date": "2005", "keywords": "curricula; development; education; esd; issues; nigeria; ogunyemi; process; school; sustainability", "summary": "Abstract This paper examines sustainable development within the context of issues arising from the UN's declaration of a Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), 2005- 2014. \u00a9 2005 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 94 April 21, 2005 Mainstreaming Sustainable Development into African School Curricula: Issues for Nigeria Biodun Ogunyemi Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that sounds abstract sustainable development and turn it into reality for all the world's people (United Nations, 2001).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11395", "words": "4529", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Yoshizumi, Miki; Miyaguchi, Takaaki", "title": "Realizing Education for Sustainable Development in Japan: The Case of Nishinomiya City", "date": "2005", "keywords": "activities; city; development; education; environmental; leaf; learning; nishinomiya", "summary": "Public awareness is therefore an integral component of LEAF activities. Reorienting existing education programs At present, LEAF activities do not touch upon the reorientation of existing school curricula, which is considered one of the core elements in realizing ESD (UNESCO, 2005).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11396", "words": "7814", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Jenkins, Kathryn; Jenkins, Bertram", "title": "Education for Sustainable Development and the Question of \u2018Balance\u2019\u2014A Case Study", "date": "2005", "keywords": "balance; development; education; environmental; esd; issues; land; nations; new; pacific; people; practices; unesco", "summary": "Education for the environment: Critical curriculum theorising and environmental education. Schooling and environmental education: Contradictions in purpose and practice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11397", "words": "680", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "15", "author": "Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Board", "title": "Education for Sustainable Development: Changes and Challenges", "date": "2005", "keywords": "development; education", "summary": "\u00a9 2005 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 7(2) 83 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION Education for Sustainable Development: Changes and Challenges The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD), 2005-2014, strives to incorporate key concepts of sustainable development into educational policies and programs of the UN, other international agencies, ministries, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations, research institutions, the media and the private sector. Biodun Ogunyemi reminds us that the UNDESD poses disparate challenges to different nations and regions of the world and offers insight into the case of Nigeria in Mainstreaming Sustainable Development into African School Curricula: Issues for Nigeria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11398", "words": "3675", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Capozzi, Richard", "title": "Sowing the Seeds: Moving Curriculum and School Culture Towards Education for Sustainable Development", "date": "2005", "keywords": "community; coriolanus; culture; curriculum; development; education; esd; peace; school", "summary": "(Cloud, The Paper Trail, p. 7) CISE projects also include Business and Entrepreneurship Education for Sustainability (BEES), developed for the NYC Department of Education; and Inventing the Future: Leadership and Participation for the 21 st Century (IF), which fulfills the requirements for the Participation in Government course needed for graduation from high school in New York State. These projects have the added advantage of incorporating sustainability education within the general framework of existing courses of study, Sowing the Seeds: Moving Curriculum and School Culture Towards Education for Sustainable Development Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 7(2) 133 although CISE's focus is not always high school.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11399", "words": "5271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Sharra, Steve", "title": "From Entrepreneurship to Activism: Teacher Autobiography, Peace and Social Justice in Education", "date": "2005", "keywords": "activism; article; education; entrepreneurship; issues; justice; malawi; peace; social; teachers; teaching", "summary": "Abstract This article argues that while social entrepreneurship shares concerns similar to those of social justice activism, the corporate and business ethos in the idea of entrepreneurship is not suited to the social concerns that teachers and other educators deal with in their everyday lives. As with social justice activism, social entrepreneurship sees itself as \u201ccritical to solving current social problems in an increasingly globalized world\u201d (Grenier, 2003, \u00b62).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11400", "words": "6459", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Sperandio, Jill", "title": "Social Entrepreneurs and Educational Leadership in Bangladesh", "date": "2005", "keywords": "bangladesh; change; education; entrepreneurship; girls; innovation; leadership; project; school; teachers; teaching; training", "summary": "Social entrepreneurship is seen by these governments as having the potential to renew interest in community action and non-formal education to solve local problems in increasing complex and rapidly changing societies (Danaher, Moriarity, & Danaher, 2003; Oyanagi, 2003). To these governments, social entrepreneurship offers the potential of increasing the availability of education and of introducing innovations that may be adopted by the national education system to improve its quality and effectiveness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11401", "words": "4737", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Su, Celine; Muenning, Peter", "title": "The Politics of Social Entrepreneurs in Access to Education: A Case Study of Shan Burmese Refugees in Northwestern Thailand", "date": "2005", "keywords": "children; community; education; entrepreneurship; refugees; school; shan; thai; thailand; yai", "summary": "In this paper, we use quantitative and qualitative data collected from a community of Shan refugees in Thailand to demonstrate that social entrepreneurship provides a useful model for addressing gaps that traditional NGOs and aid agencies do not fill. While Thai laws technically allow Shan children to attend Thai schools, parents are unfamiliar with the bureaucracy, do not speak Thai well, and cannot afford books or school uniforms (Ruiz, 2002).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11402", "words": "2441", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Dees, J. Gregory", "title": "Social Entrepreneurs and Education", "date": "2005", "keywords": "business; education; entrepreneurs; issues; markets", "summary": "Sperandio's analysis of four examples illustrates the wide variations that exist among social entrepreneurs even in a single country working on similar problems. Su and Muenning construct a richly detailed study of social entrepreneurs addressing the educational needs of Shan Burmese refugees in Thailand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11403", "words": "1738", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Lafuente, Constanza", "title": "Why an Issue on Social Entrepreneurs?", "date": "2005", "keywords": "change; education; entrepreneurship; issues", "summary": "To analyze the implications of social entrepreneurship for research within the field of Comparative and International Education, first, we examine how social entrepreneurs are often conceived, since the concept of entrepreneurship has been long hallowed in the context of business and economic ventures (Brown et al., 2004, p. 260), and only recently has it increasingly been applied to social problem solving. The potential of social entrepreneurship to advance education and social change has not been sufficiently explored by Comparative and International Education scholars.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11404", "words": "4786", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Humphries, Maria; Grant, Suzanne", "title": "Social Enterprise and Re-Civilization of Human Endeavors:Resocializing the Market Metaphor or Encroaching Colonization of the Lifeworld?", "date": "2005", "keywords": "dees; education; enterprise; habermas; human; lifeworld; market; metaphor", "summary": "He recognizes, however, that social entrepreneurs differ from other entrepreneurs because they have a social mission and it is this social mission that provides them with some distinctive challenges (2001). We propose the amplification of a relational ethic that may bring the spirit of humanity implied in Dees's definition of social entrepreneurs, not only to understand his segregation of social enterprise from the market proper but to encourage a critical transformation of that very market in ways that amplify the values articulated by Dees (2001, p. 1) across all the sectors, whose boundaries are indeed blurring.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11405", "words": "1393", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Swing, Elizabeth Sherman", "title": "A Brief History of the Comparative and International Education Society", "date": "2006", "keywords": "board; cies; education; issues; society", "summary": "Although only thirty-five were present at the first conference, Brickman labeled a collection of papers presented there: \u201cProceedings of the First Annual Conference on Comparative Education (1954)\u201d \u2013 thus signaling hope that he and this group would henceforth occupy comparative education turf in the United States. A Brief History of the Comparative and International Education Society Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 8(2) 67 The third issue of the 1960s, the separate meetings issue, reflects a particular historical moment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11406", "words": "1393", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Manzon, Maria; Bray, Mark", "title": "A Brief History of the Comparative and International Education Society", "date": "2006", "keywords": "board; cies; education; issues; society", "summary": "Although only thirty-five were present at the first conference, Brickman labeled a collection of papers presented there: \u201cProceedings of the First Annual Conference on Comparative Education (1954)\u201d \u2013 thus signaling hope that he and this group would henceforth occupy comparative education turf in the United States. A Brief History of the Comparative and International Education Society Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 8(2) 67 The third issue of the 1960s, the separate meetings issue, reflects a particular historical moment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11407", "words": "5365", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; deJong-Lambert, William", "title": "The International Race over the Patronage of the South: Comparative and International Education in Eastern Europe and the United States", "date": "2006", "keywords": "cold; countries; development; education; international; socialist; soviet; states; studies; united; war; world", "summary": "In the \u201cEast\u201d, former proponents of socialist comparative education in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) re-examined the developments of socialist comparative education from a post-Cold War perspective (John 1998; Kienitz, 1994; see also Busch 1983). Hoffmann (1975) summarized the distinctions between bourgeois and socialist comparative education discussed at the meeting of socialist comparativists, and concluded that socialist comparative education should abstain from comparison across political systems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11408", "words": "3988", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Masemann, Vandra L.", "title": "Afterword", "date": "2006", "keywords": "cies; comparative; development; education; field; history; issue; world", "summary": "The so-called \u2018father\u201d of comparative education is usually considered to be the renowned French educationist, Marc-Antoine Jullien, who had the idea of developing a \u201cscience\u201d of Vandra L. Masemann 106 April 21, 2006 education, since he saw education has having played a crucial role in forming a revolutionary consciousness in students before the French Revolution.. He published his famous work in comparative education, Esquisse et vues preliminaries d\u2019un ouvrage sur l\u2019\u00e9\u0300ducation compare\u00e9\u0300 entrepris d\u2019bord pour les vingt-deux cantons de la Suisse at pour quelques parties de l\u2019Allemagne at de l\u2019Italie\u2026(Outline and preliminary views for a work on comparative education undertaken for the twenty-two cantons of Switzerland and for some parts of Germany and Italy, that can be subsequently carried out in the same way for all European states\u2026) in 1817, in which he proposed a project for studying education in all the countries of Europe, eventually using a standardized questionnaire with 266 items.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11409", "words": "1436", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "25", "author": "Zakharia, Zeena", "title": "The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Comparative and International Education Society", "date": "2006", "keywords": "comparative; education; international; society", "summary": "\u00a9 2006 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 8(2) 63 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Comparative and International Education Society Zeena Zakharia Teachers College, Columbia University The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), formerly Comparative Education Society, was founded in 1956, bringing together academics and professionals with an interest in comparative education in the United States, and elsewhere, into a formal body of scholarship. When we began planning for this issue of CICE to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Comparative and International Education Society, our initial concern was how an issue reflecting on the Society\u2019s past could be brought to bear on current issues in comparative education, in fitting with the journal\u2019s mission.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11410", "words": "4188", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Vavrus, Frances; Bartlett, Lesley", "title": "Comparatively Knowing: Making a Case for the Vertical Case Study", "date": "2006", "keywords": "case; comparative; education; international; knowledge; research; studies; study", "summary": "Their embrace of case study research in comparative education is not merely methodological; rather, Crossley and Vulliamy make an epistemological \u2018case for the case\u2019 by arguing that what can be known about one context cannot be assumed to be true in another context. Too often, case study research is cast as \u2018not comparative\u2019; too often, we are convinced to conduct quick, insufficiently grounded evaluations, participatory or not, upon which policies are then based.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11411", "words": "5387", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Mosselsson, Jacqueline", "title": "Roots and Routes: A Re-Imagining of Refugee Identity Constructions and the Implications for Schooling", "date": "2006", "keywords": "community; education; experiences; identity; new; refugees; roots; routes; school; york", "summary": "Microsoft Word - 04_CICE_Fall2006_mosselson_yhl.doc \u00a9 2006 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 9(1) 20 Roots & Routes: A re-imagining of refugee identity constructions and the implications for schooling Jacqueline Mosselson, Ph.D. Center for International Education University of Massachusetts Refugees are a product of conflicts in international, Roots & Routes: A re-imagining of refugee identity constructions and the implications for schooling 21 December 7, 2006 national, and regional politics, and the reception of refugees in host countries is also influenced by international, national, and regional politics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11412", "words": "6905", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Mossayeb, Sina; Shirazi, Roozbeh", "title": "Education and Emigration: The Case of the Iranian American Community", "date": "2006", "keywords": "american; education; emigration; iran; iranian; opportunity; policies; respondents; revolution; state; survey; u.s", "summary": "Drawing on existing studies of Iranian educational policies and their consequences, we propose an extension to this thesis. Taken together, the arguments made by Habibi (1989), Sakuari (2004), and Torbat (2002) suggest that both policy and quality issues associated with Iranian higher education have incited at least some Iranians (between 1.5 and 3 million) to leave Iran.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11413", "words": "6378", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Gomolla, Metchild", "title": "Tackling Underachievement of Learners from Ethnic Minorities: A Comparison of Recent Policies of School Improvement in Germany, England, and Switzerland", "date": "2006", "keywords": "children; der; discrimination; education; england; germany; gomolla; improvement; inequalities; issues; learning; new; policies; school; strategies; und", "summary": "Microsoft Word - 06_CICE_Fall2006_gomolla_yhl_not_copyedited_.doc \u00a9 2006 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 9(1) 46 Tackling underachievement of learners from ethnic minorities: A comparison of recent policies of school improvement in Germany, England and Switzerland Mechtild Gomolla Institute of Education University of Muenster, This article discusses recent educational policies that attempt to systematically integrate aspects of linguistic and cultural diversity and equity targets within broader policies of school effectiveness and school improvement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11414", "words": "3428", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Gibson, Margaret A. (Greta); Rios, Anne", "title": "Globalization, Immigration, and the Education of \"New\" Immigrants in the 21st Century", "date": "2006", "keywords": "children; citizenship; education; gibson; immigrant; immigration; new; school", "summary": "Her work, which focuses primarily on the role of gender in the educational adaptations of immigrant children, draws upon a rich collection of recent qualitative studies that document immigrant girls\u2019 apparent advantages over boys in schools in the U.S. The contentious nature of immigration and attendant representations of immigrants must be kept in mind when considering the experiences of immigrant children, as these often translate into policies and practices that affect educational opportunity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11415", "words": "2297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Ghaffar-Kucher, Ameena", "title": "Assimilation, Integration, or Isolation? (Re-)Framing the Education of Immigrants", "date": "2006", "keywords": "assimilation; country; education; immigrants; immigration; park; students", "summary": "In effect, new immigrants are more likely to maintain an affinity to their home country and less likely to feel the pressure to assimilate. Cosmopolitanism, as an alternative paradigm from which to approach immigration issues, is explored by Jeffrey Walker and Ana Serrano in their essay, Formulating a Cosmopolitan Approach to Immigration and Social Policy: Lessons from American (North and South) Indigenous and Immigration Groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11416", "words": "4025", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Walker, Jeffrey; Serrano, Ana", "title": "Formulating a Cosmopolitan Approach to Immigration and Social Policy: Lessons from American (North and South) Indigenous and Immigration Groups", "date": "2006", "keywords": "american; cosmopolitan; education; groups; indigenous; new; otavalos; u.s", "summary": "This paper uses current and historical ideas about the complex nature of indigenous groups, globalization, and education as vehicles for promoting the adoption of cosmopolitanism, a paradigm that values inclusion, tolerance, and respect for the other. Given this minority-majority trend, what macrosystems will be envisioned in order to promote relationships among immigrants, minority groups, indigenous groups, and the larger society?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11417", "words": "6719", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Qahir, Katayon; Kirk, Jackie", "title": "INEE Minimum Standards: A Tool for Education Quality Assessment in Afghan Refugee Schools in Pakistan", "date": "2007", "keywords": "activities; assessment; community; education; fep; minimum; process; school; standards; students; teachers", "summary": "Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol . 9(2) 21 In 2004, FEP school and office staff and community members participated in consultations to develop the global Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction. Since their launch, FEP staff members have received additional training on the Minimum Standards and have been planning ways of using them at the school level to engage school community members in self-assessment and quality development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11418", "words": "6018", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Hodgkin, Marian", "title": "Negotiating Change: Participatory Curriculum Design in Emergencies", "date": "2007", "keywords": "curriculum; development; education; emergencies; inee; minimum; participation; power; process; standards", "summary": "The suggestion that curricula should be developed using negotiation techniques is one such school of thought; this paper considers the potential value of applying these theories within emergency education contexts. However, the Guidance Note relating to this standard states that \u201ccurriculum development can be a long and difficult process\u2026[as] in emergencies curricula are often adapted from either the host country, the country of origin or other emergency settings\u201d (INEE, 2004a, p. 57).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11419", "words": "5719", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Sobe, Noah W.", "title": "An Historical Perspective on Coordinating Education Post-Conflict: Biopolitics, Governing at a Distance, and States of Exception", "date": "2007", "keywords": "agency; community; conflict; education; emergencies; inee; life; politics; post; reconstruction; standards", "summary": "\u201cThere can hardly be any question that contemporary knowledge and the best of professional practice in public and private community service must be mobilized in order to meet the peculiar challenge of international aid to social reconstruction.\u201d Returning people to proper collective living was set as the chief goal of social reconstruction and the restoration of \u201corganized services to the millions so that each individual may find the right response to bitter needs which he cannot meet alone\u201d (p. 216).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11420", "words": "5356", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Burde, Dana", "title": "Response Paper: Empower or Control? Education in Emergencies and Global Governance", "date": "2007", "keywords": "aid; community; control; education; emergencies; humanitarians; international; issue; new; standards", "summary": "In education programs, these differences are often characterized by the relative emphasis placed on centralization versus decentralization, and on community or private structures versus state or public structures. For example, Afghan refugees living in Balochistan employ universal rights language to advocate for education services among international agencies (Burde, 2005).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11421", "words": "1613", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Subramanian, Mathangi", "title": "Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises, and Early Reconstruction", "date": "2007", "keywords": "children; education; minimum; nations; standards", "summary": "Modern warfare is particularly hard on children, who are recruited as child soldiers in unprecedented numbers, targeted as possible civilian casualties, and are geographically displaced with or without their families. Every day, across the world, committed educators in industrialized and developing nations face countless challenges in creating school systems that effectively serve all of their citizens.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11422", "words": "2101", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ginsburg, Mark B.", "title": "Bridge over Black[ened] Water: A New Refrain for NGOs", "date": "2008", "keywords": "education; ngos; organizations; security; u.s; water", "summary": "Although the album\u2019s title song was not produced as part of a social marketing campaign for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), its lyrics seem well-suited for that purpose. Therefore, I am inclined to conclude that whether or not one generally favors a role for NGOs and whether or not one is a proponent of privatized or public forms of democracy (see Ginsburg, 1998; Sehr, 1997), that contracting out combat-zone security functions to nongovernmental organizations pushes privatization too far.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11423", "words": "3161", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Steiner-Khamsi, Gita", "title": "Donor Logic in the Era of Gates, Buffett, and Soros", "date": "2008", "keywords": "aid; development; donor; education; international; logic; mongolia; organizations", "summary": "How donor logic impacts the cooperation of donor organizations with governments as well as with other international organizations is a topic that deserves much more scrutiny. Naturally, tensions do emerge with other international organizations, especially larger ones that also attempt to exert influence on national policy-making.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11424", "words": "2735", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ilon, Lynn", "title": "The Growing Market for NGO Influence", "date": "2008", "keywords": "development; environment; influence; international; ngos; oda", "summary": "This posits that, if local NGOs are a more direct voice of local communities, then ODA to NGOs might be explained by a desire to build NGO capacity. Several authors suggest that the need to integrate NGOs into a global ODA scenario has caused many NGOs to trade local effectiveness for global integration and legitimacy (Agg, 2006; Gilles and Yontcheva, 2006; Mayer and Gereffi, 2006; Cooley and Ron, 2002; Fisher and Green, 2004; Dolhinow, 2005).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11425", "words": "1741", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Klees, Steven J.", "title": "NGOs, Civil Society, and Development: Is There a Third Way?", "date": "2008", "keywords": "klees; ngos; way", "summary": "Nonetheless, while available funding directs most NGOs to service provision, there are still many NGOs that engage in advocacy and monitoring, and often NGOs engage in both service provision and advocacy. There are also donor- organized NGOs (DONGOs), government-run NGOs (GONGOs), advocacy NGOs (ANGOs), public interest NGOs (PINGOs), and business and industry associated NGOs (BINGOs) (Kamat, 2004; Edwards and Hulme, 1997).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11426", "words": "3169", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Silova, Iveta", "title": "Contested Alliances: International NGOs and Authoritarian Governments in the Era of Globalization", "date": "2008", "keywords": "alliances; education; government; khamsi; ngos; silova; turkmenistan", "summary": "Contested Alliances: International NGOs and Authoritarian Governments in the Era of Globalization Iveta Silova Lehigh University The NGO boom of the 1990s was matched by mounting literature on the influence of NGOs on world politics. NGOs forge contested alliances with governments, international organizations, and local communities (often contested from within and without); and, notwithstanding their success or failure in reaching their officially proclaimed goals, NGOs are capable of altering larger political, economic, and social processes in unpredictable ways.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11427", "words": "4716", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Mundy, Karen", "title": "From NGOs to CSOs: Social Citizenship, Civil Society, and \"Education for All\" - An Agenda for Further Research", "date": "2008", "keywords": "actors; bank; citizenship; development; education; efa; international; level; mundy; society; world", "summary": "Recently donors have also welcomed civil society participation in national policy level dialogue, but this invitation is quite limited and de-linked from the mechanisms for local level civil society participation being supported by donors. In K. Roth & N. Burbules (Eds.), Changing notions of citizenship education in contemporary nation- states.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11428", "words": "2440", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Stromquist, Nelly P.", "title": "Revisiting Transformational NGOs in the Context of Contemporary Society", "date": "2008", "keywords": "issues; ngos; rights; social; society; state; women", "summary": "\u00a9 2008 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 10(1/2): 41-45. Revisiting Transformational NGOs in the Context of Contemporary Society Nelly P. Stromquist University of Southern California Ten years ago CICE invited me to comment on five articles on the subject of NGOs. At that time, I stated that NGOs had vital roles to fulfill, and that, despite the critique of NGOs presented in the issue, a significant number of them made important contributions to their society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11429", "words": "2001", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Subramanian, Mathangi", "title": "Are NGOs Overrated? (Ten Year Anniversary Double Issue)", "date": "2008", "keywords": "education; hulme; issues; ngos; reform", "summary": "Now, the ultimate goal of many NGOs is \u201cmainstreaming,\u201d or \u201cthe incorporation of NGO models into the official policy framework\u201d of the nations that NGOs serve (Wils, 1995, p. 58). Such NGOs could be described metaphorically as a bridge, available to help people in need to cross over, whether the troubled water refers to hunger, disease, poverty, or inadequate education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11430", "words": "5307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Thomas, Carolyn M.; Thomas, Matthew A.M.", "title": "Early Childhood Care and Education in Zambia: An Integral Part of Educational Provision?", "date": "2009", "keywords": "care; childhood; development; ecce; education; issues; policy; primary; school; teachers; zambia", "summary": "The growth of teacher education in Zambia since independence. Indeed, if primary teachers are not able to plan lessons utilizing textbooks, it seems likely that ECCE programs will suffer from the same issues, possibly to a greater extent, as precious financial and material resources will be spread even thinner.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11431", "words": "5500", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Soud\u00e9ekin, Alicia Ranck", "title": "Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge and Practice into ECCE: A Comparison of Programs in The Gambia, Senegal and Mali", "date": "2009", "keywords": "childhood; children; clos; community; development; ecce; education; gambia; knowledge; mali; policy; programs; senegal; unesco", "summary": "In The Gambia there is thus far a proposal on how indigenous knowledge should be included in early childhood programs. Closely following this, the Education for All (EFA) initiative from the 1990 World Conference on EFA in Jomtien, Thailand, the 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and the development of the Millennium Development Goals in the UN, have all led to an increase in government policies and local initiatives in the domain of early childhood programs around the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11432", "words": "5310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Schneider, Alessandra; Ramires, Vera Regina; da Gra\u00e7a Gomes Paiva, Maria; Almeida, Leila", "title": "The Better Early Childhood Development Program: An Innovative Brazilian Public Policy", "date": "2009", "keywords": "brazil; brazilian; care; childhood; children; development; education; families; family; issues; pim; program; state; years", "summary": "Early child development is a business imperative. A productive investment: Early child development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11433", "words": "4543", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "da Gra\u00e7a Gomes Paiva, Maria; Schneider, Alessandra; Machad, Maria L\u00facia Salle; Perinazzo, Pollyana Vilela Duarte", "title": "A New Look on Early Child Care and Education (ECCE) as Joint Responsibility", "date": "2009", "keywords": "care; centers; child; childhood; children; development; ecce; education; program; quality", "summary": "For the first three months the whole planning is focused on the educator as a person and then on the 38 Current Issues in Comparative Education M. Paiva, A. Schneider, M. Machado, and P. Perinazzo educator\u2019s professional skills and competences on early child education. Too little diversified playing activities with children, rigid and stuck to weak routines, either idleness or little stimulation of children\u2019s motor cognitive, affective, cultural and social development, and the lack of a well-designed curriculum on child education and care were some of the points highlighted by the commission.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11434", "words": "1751", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Lee, Yoon; Hayden, Matthew", "title": "Early Childhood Care and Education: Worldwide Challenges and Progresses", "date": "2009", "keywords": "care; childhood; development; education; issues; programs", "summary": "Focused development of early childhood education programs is now in demand. Although the development and expansion of early childhood programs has greatly increased (Barnett, 1995), there have been only a limited number of instruments to monitor their implementation and measure their overall quality (NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2000).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11435", "words": "4018", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Sobe, Noah W.", "title": "Rethinking 'Cosmopolitanism' as an Analytic for the Comparative Study of Globalization & Education", "date": "2009", "keywords": "cosmopolitanism; education; local; new; popkewitz; world; yugoslav", "summary": "Rethinking 'Cosmopolitanism' as an Analytic for the Comparative Study of Globalization & Education Noah W. Sobe Loyola University Chicago This article proposes that for scholars in comparative and international education the study of cosmpolitanisms offers a productive avenue for thinking outside of the traditional paradigms of area studies and for understanding the new world-generating optics and multi-layered geographies that appear to be emerging with globalization. The piece explores the concept of vernacular cosmopolitanisms and discusses recent scholarship \u2013 on 21st century American education and on early-20th-century Yugoslav education \u2013 that have used cosmopolitanism as an analytic category.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11437", "words": "5510", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Rapoport, Anatoli", "title": "Lonely Business or Mutual Concern: The Role of Comparative Education in the Cosmopolitan Citizenship Debates", "date": "2009", "keywords": "citizenship; citizenship education; cosmopolitan; discourses; education; issues; nation; national; patriotism; research; state; teachers", "summary": "To effectively impact citizenship education in the U.S. and to advance the inclusion of cosmopolitan global worldview, comparative research should focus on: \u2022 Analysis of conditions conducive to the development of cosmopolitan and global citizenship and contexts that make cosmopolitan and global consciousness possible; \u2022 Debates around the notion and essence of citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and globalization and how these concepts are constructed, interpreted, negotiated, and applied in various discourses and practices, particularly educational, in different societies; \u2022 Policies that impact multiple forms of citizenships; and \u2022 Curricular and professional development practices that help teachers and education administrators to better understand the ideas of cosmopolitanism, expanding citizenship, multiple loyalties, and perspective consciousness. Lonely Business or Mutual Concern: The Role of Comparative Education in the Cosmopolitan Citizenship Debates Anatoli Rapoport Purdue University Cosmopolitan and global discourses are more and more often used for conceptualization and interpretation of citizenship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11438", "words": "7317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bromley, Patricia", "title": "Cosmopolitanism in Civic Education: Exploring Cross-National Trends, 1970-2008", "date": "2009", "keywords": "africa; cice; citizenship; cosmopolitanism; diversity; education; europe; issues; north; rights; society; state; textbooks; universalism; world", "summary": "Teaching world citizenship: The cross-national adoption of human rights in formal schooling. The worldwide rise of human rights education, 1950-2005.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11439", "words": "6272", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Hendershot, Karen; Sperandio, Jill", "title": "Study Abroad and Development of Global Citizen Identity and Cosmopolitan Ideals in Undergraduates", "date": "2009", "keywords": "abroad; citizen; citizenship; cohort; development; education; experiences; identity; issues; program; students; study; university; world", "summary": "Study Abroad and Development of Global Citizen Identity and Cosmopolitan Ideals in Undergraduates Karen Hendershot Lehigh University Jill Sperandio Lehigh University This paper reports selected results from a broader study which focused on determining students\u2019 perceptions of the development of their global citizen identity within the context of an undergraduate global citizenship program, and what students believed were aspects of the program that contributed to this growth. What, then, is a global citizen? 46 Current Issues in Comparative Education K. Hendersot and J. Sperandio Data gathered directly from students in this study suggest they perceive a global citizen to be the following: one who engages in activism; is open minded and accepting of other cultures in a respectful, tolerant and non-judgmental fashion; pursues knowledge and seeks understanding; feels part of the human community; and possesses a sense of awareness, which includes not only self-awareness, but also awareness of the interconnections between local and global issues and of the impact of one\u2019s actions on the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11440", "words": "5705", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Harper, Helen; Dunkerly, Judith", "title": "Educating the World: Teachers and their Work as Defined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)", "date": "2009", "keywords": "cosmopolitanism; development; documents; education; issues; nations; organization; rights; teacher; unesco; united; work; world", "summary": "Teacher as Professional The publication that most completely focused on naming the teacher is the ILO/UNESCO \u201cRecommendations Concerning the Status of Teachers\u201d (UNESCO, 1966), which determined and defined the rights and responsibilities of teachers, international standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment and as advocated for safe teaching and learning conditions. The recommendations from the \u201cStatus of Teachers\u201d document aimed to elevate the status of teachers and establish international guidelines for the work of teachers to insure that regardless of where they teach, teachers are trained professionals, and acknowledged as such.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11441", "words": "5598", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Griffiths, Tom G.; Knezevic, Lisa", "title": "World-systems Analysis in Comparative Education: An Alternative to Cosmopolitanism", "date": "2009", "keywords": "analysis; approach; cosmopolitanism; education; issues; knowledge; nation; systems; universalism; wallerstein; world", "summary": "Helen Harper and Judith Dunkerly 66 World-systems Analysis in Comparative Education: An Alternative to Cosmopolitanism Tom G. Griffiths and Lisa Knezevic 76 Smashing Cosmopolitanism: The Neo-liberal Destruction of Cosmopolitan Education in East- Central Europe Robert J. Imre and Zsuzsa Millei ESSAY 86 The Evolution of a Cosmopolitan Identity: Transforming Culture Shannan Spisak 92 About the Contributors Current Issues in Comparative Education 2 Current Issues in Comparative Education CURRENT ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Volume 12, Issue 1 (2009) EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor Matthew Hayden Guest Executive Editor Andria Wisler Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, Program of Justice and Peace Executive Editors Cambria Russell, Andrew Shiotani Senior Editors Kathleen Keenan, Ruaridh MacLeod, Antonia Mandry, Cambria Russell, Michael Schapira Editors Sarah Flatto, Michelle Reddy, Briana Ronan, Gretchen Wietmarschen Associate Editors Holly Brewster, Richard Cheng, Henan Cheng, Cara Furman, Anne Gaspers, Ryan Hathaway, Ghazala Mehmood, Jason Mellen, Elizabeth Morphis, Carina Omoeva, Amritpal Sandhu, Muntasir Sattar Copy Editor Sarah Flatto, Matthew Hayden, Ruaridh MacLeod, Michael Schapira Style Editors Ruaridh MacLeod, Ghazala Mehmood, Elizabeth Morphis, Amritpal Sandhu Web Editor Andrew Shiotani Associate Web Editors Ruaridh MacLeod, Muntasir Sattar INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Michael Apple, Mark Bray, Michael Cross, Ingrid Gogolin, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Noel McGinn, Gary Natriello, Harold Noah, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Frances Vavrus COPYRIGHT Fall 2009 \u2022 ISSN 1523-1615 \u2022 http://www.tc.edu/cice Cosmopolitanism, EduCation and ComparativE EduCation GUEST EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 3 Cosmopolitanism, Education and Comparative Education Andria Wisler ARTICLES 6 Rethinking \u2018Cosmopolitanism\u2019 as an Analytic for the Comparative Study of Globalization and Education Noah W. Sobe 14 The Ethics and Ontology of Cosmopolitanism: Education for a Shared Humanity Dale Snauwaert 23 Lonely Business or Mutual Concern: The Role of Comparative Education in the Cosmopolitan Citizenship Debates Anatoli Rapoport 33 Cosmopolitanism in Civic Education: Exploring Cross-National Trends, 1970-2008 Patricia Bromley 45 Study Abroad and Development of Global Citizen Identity and Cosmopolitan Ideals in Undergraduates Karen Hendershot and Jill Sperandio 56 Educating the World:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11442", "words": "1904", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "9", "author": "Wisler, Andria", "title": "Cosmopolitanism, Education and Comparative Education", "date": "2009", "keywords": "cice; cosmopolitanism; editors; education; issues; teachers; world", "summary": "Fall 2009 \u2022 ISSN 1523-1615 \u2022 http://www.tc.edu/cice Cosmopolitanism, EduCation and ComparativE EduCation GUEST EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 3 Cosmopolitanism, Education and Comparative Education Andria Wisler ARTICLES 6 Rethinking \u2018Cosmopolitanism\u2019 as an Analytic for the Comparative Study of Globalization and Education Noah W. Sobe 14 The Ethics and Ontology of Cosmopolitanism: Education for a Shared Humanity Dale Snauwaert 23 Lonely Business or Mutual Concern: The Role of Comparative Education in the Cosmopolitan Citizenship Debates Anatoli Rapoport 33 Cosmopolitanism in Civic Education: Exploring Cross-National Trends, 1970-2008 Patricia Bromley 45 Study Abroad and Development of Global Citizen Identity and Cosmopolitan Ideals in Undergraduates Karen Hendershot and Jill Sperandio 56 Educating the World: From this case, we move to the spatial consideration of knowledge in the article World-systems Analysis in Comparative Education: An Alternative to Cosmopolitanism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11443", "words": "5809", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Imre, Robert J.; Millei, Zsuzsa", "title": "Smashing Cosmopolitanism: The Neo-liberal Destruction of Cosmopolitan Education in East-Central Europe", "date": "2009", "keywords": "children; cold; cosmopolitanism; education; europe; hungary; issues; nation; new; schools; states; system; university; war; world", "summary": "Fall 2009 \u2022 ISSN 1523-1615 \u2022 http://www.tc.edu/cice Cosmopolitanism, EduCation and ComparativE EduCation GUEST EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 3 Cosmopolitanism, Education and Comparative Education Andria Wisler ARTICLES 6 Rethinking \u2018Cosmopolitanism\u2019 as an Analytic for the Comparative Study of Globalization and Education Noah W. Sobe 14 The Ethics and Ontology of Cosmopolitanism: Education for a Shared Humanity Dale Snauwaert 23 Lonely Business or Mutual Concern: The Role of Comparative Education in the Cosmopolitan Citizenship Debates Anatoli Rapoport 33 Cosmopolitanism in Civic Education: Exploring Cross-National Trends, 1970-2008 Patricia Bromley 45 Study Abroad and Development of Global Citizen Identity and Cosmopolitan Ideals in Undergraduates Karen Hendershot and Jill Sperandio 56 Educating the World: The right to free choice of schools, as a sign of the democratising system, however \u201cis not available for all, families with lower income, or level of education, and ones living in small villages only hosting one school can not live with their rights\u201d (Ministry of Education Hungary, 2005, p. 16).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11444", "words": "3727", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Spisak, Shannan", "title": "The Evolution of a Cosmopolitan Identity: Transforming Culture", "date": "2009", "keywords": "agency; change; cosmopolitanism; culture; education; identity; issues; self", "summary": "Cosmopolitanism seeks to affect changes in cultural norms through the cultivation of self-awareness, identity, empowerment, and agency. Examining identity through the lens of gender roles and patriotism, it becomes evident that identity can be fluid, and cosmopolitan values can be universally applied.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11445", "words": "2478", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Hansen, David T.", "title": "Cosmopolitanism and our Descriptions of Ethics and Ontology: A Response to Dale Snauwaert's \"The Ethics and Ontology of Cosmopolitanism\"", "date": "2010", "keywords": "cice; cosmopolitanism; dignity; education; issues; snauwaert; university", "summary": "\u00a9 2010 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Current Issues in Comparative Education, Vol. 12(2): 41-44 SPECIAL SECTION Responses to Volume 12, Issue 1 Cosmopolitanism and our Descriptions of Ethics and Ontology: A Response to Dale Snauwaert\u2019s \u201cThe Ethics and Ontology of Cosmopolitanism\u201d David T. Hansen Teachers College, Columbia University In recent years scholars across the humanities and social sciences have revitalized the ancient concept of cosmopolitanism. Inequity in Migrant Children\u2019s Education in China Guangyu Tan SPECIAL SECTION: Responses to Volume 12, Issue 1 41 Cosmopolitanism and our Descriptions of Ethics and Ontology:A Response to Dale Snauwaert\u2019s \u201cThe Ethics and Ontology of Cosmopolitanism\u201d David T. Hansen 45 Response to Noah Sobe\u2019s \u201cRethinking \u2018Cosmopolitanism\u2019 as an Analytic for the Comparative Study of Globalization and Education\u201d Andria Wisler BOOK REVIEW 50 P. Agarwal, Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future Reviewed by Radhika Iyengar 53 About the Contributors Current Issues in Comparative Education 2 Current Issues in Comparative Education CURRENT ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Volume 12, Issue 2 (Spring 2010) EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor Matthew Hayden Executive Editor Andrew Shiotani Senior Editors Ruaridh MacLeod, Antonia Mandry, Michael Schapira, Michelle Reddy Editors Sarah Flatto, Cara Furman, Brian Veprek, Gretchen Wietmarschen Associate Editors Anne Gaspers, Ryan Hathaway, Joseph Hirsch, Jason Mellen, Elizabeth Morphis, Muntasir Sattar Copy Editor Sarah Flatto, Cara Furman, Anne Gaspers, Matthew Hayden, Ruaridh MacLeod, Michael Schapira, Brian Veprek Style Editors Matthew Hayden, Ruaridh MacLeod, Muntasir Sattar, Michael Schapira, Brian Veprek Web Editor Andrew Shiotani Associate Web Editors Ruaridh MacLeod, Muntasir Sattar INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Michael Apple, Mark Bray, Michael Cross, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Noel McGinn, Gary Natriello, Harold Noah, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Frances Vavrus COPYRIGHT", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11446", "words": "3155", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Wisler, Andria", "title": "Response to Noah Sobe's \"Rethinking 'Cosmopolitanism' as an Analytic for the Comparative Study of Globalization and Education\"", "date": "2010", "keywords": "cice; cosmopolitanism; education; field; issues; research; site; sobe", "summary": "I do this in light of my research in post-Yugoslav countries (Wisler, 2008), introducing readers to another \u201cvernacular cosmopolitanism\u201d from this region of the Balkans. Moreover, I interviewed and talked to professors and students from throughout the post-Yugoslav region, whom I met at conferences and events, including in Copenhagen, Denmark; Schlaining, Austria; Marburg, Germany; and Dubrovnik, Croatia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11447", "words": "4012", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Chang, Gwang-chol", "title": "Monitoring the Effects of the Global Crisis on Education Provision", "date": "2010", "keywords": "budgets; countries; crisis; education; effects; impact; issues; school; survey; unesco", "summary": "Community Survey: Impact of crisis on education. Analyses confirmed the findings of the earlier survey conducted by UNESCO: while government revenues declined and budgets were cut in 2008 and 2009, education budgets were relatively resilient in a number of countries, though the increase has been less than in previous years.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11448", "words": "5615", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ingubu, Moses Shiasha; Kindiki, Jonah Nyaga; Wambua, Kyalo Benjamin", "title": "The Global Economic Crisis: Setbacks to the Educational Agenda for the Minority in Sub-Saharan Africa", "date": "2010", "keywords": "africa; bank; children; crisis; education; issues; paris; programs; school; unesco; washington; world; world bank", "summary": "Inequity in Migrant Children\u2019s Education in China Guangyu Tan SPECIAL SECTION: Responses to Volume 12, Issue 1 41 Cosmopolitanism and our Descriptions of Ethics and Ontology: A Response to Dale Snauwaert\u2019s \u201cThe Ethics and Ontology of Cosmopolitanism\u201d David T. Hansen 45 Response to Noah Sobe\u2019s \u201cRethinking \u2018Cosmopolitanism\u2019 as an Analytic for the Comparative Study of Globalization and Education\u201d Andria Wisler BOOK REVIEW 50 P. Agarwal, Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future Reviewed by Radhika Iyengar 53 About the Contributors Current Issues in Comparative Education 2 Current Issues in Comparative Education CURRENT ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Volume 12, Issue 2 (Spring 2010) EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor Matthew Hayden Executive Editor Andrew Shiotani Senior Editors Ruaridh MacLeod, Antonia Mandry, Michael Schapira, Michelle Reddy Editors Sarah Flatto, Cara Furman, Brian Veprek, Gretchen Wietmarschen Associate Editors Anne Gaspers, Ryan Hathaway, Joseph Hirsch, Jason Mellen, Elizabeth Morphis, Muntasir Sattar Copy Editor Sarah Flatto, Cara Furman, Anne Gaspers, Matthew Hayden, Ruaridh MacLeod, Michael Schapira, Brian Veprek Style Editors Matthew Hayden, Ruaridh MacLeod, Muntasir Sattar, Michael Schapira, Brian Veprek Web Editor Andrew Shiotani Associate Web Editors Ruaridh MacLeod, Muntasir Sattar INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Michael Apple, Mark Bray, Michael Cross, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Noel McGinn, Gary Natriello, Harold Noah, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Frances Vavrus COPYRIGHT Unless otherwise noted, copyrights for the texts which comprise all issues of Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) are held by the journal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11449", "words": "5991", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Tan, Guangyu", "title": "Under the Same Blue Sky? Inequity in Migrant Children's Education in China", "date": "2010", "keywords": "beijing; children; china; city; economic; education; issues; public; schools; social; system; urban; workers; yuan", "summary": "Migrant Children: The City\u2019s \u201cInvisible Population\u201d Migrant Schools: A Renewed Sense Of Hope", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11450", "words": "2286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Iyengar, Radhika", "title": "P. Agarwal, Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future", "date": "2010", "keywords": "agarwal; book; cice; education; indian; issues; policy; system", "summary": "ISBN 978-81-7829-941-9 (HB) \u2014 Reviewed by Radhika Iyengar, Teachers College, Columbia University Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future goes beyond explaining the traditional human capital theory which links education and skills to labor market outcomes. Economists like Psacharopoulos estimated that across countries, the private returns on education are greater for primary education as compared to those for higher education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11452", "words": "4623", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Brehm, William C.; Silova, Iveta", "title": "The Ignorant Donor: A Radical Reimagination of Aid, Development, and Education", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aid; development; education; equality; intelligence; international; issues; klees; new", "summary": "Responses The Ignorant Donor: A Radical Reimagination of International Aid, Development, and Education William C. Brehm1 This Life Cambodia Iveta Silova1 Lehigh University The logic behind international aid to development has typically centered on economics. Within this conceptualization it becomes clear that the foundational assumption of the contemporary development paradigm does not center on equality at all. Equality, rather, is something we all must work towards, must achieve through the right combination of policies and practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11453", "words": "4564", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ginsburg, Mark", "title": "Improving Aid Effectiveness of Transforming the Global Capitalist System", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aid; development; education; game; issues; klees; needs; rights; system; world", "summary": "Improving Aid Effectiveness or Transforming the Global Capitalist System Mark Ginsburg Global Education Center, Academy for Educational Development International Educational Policy Program, University of Maryland In the introduction to his article, \u201cAid, Development, and Education,\u201d Klees (2010) poses the question, has the \u201chundreds of billions of dollars in international aid \u2026 loaned to [or otherwise targeted to \u201cassist\u201d] developing countries through bilateral and multilateral mechanisms \u2026 helped?\u201d (p. 6). Fall 2010 \u2022 ISSN 1523-1615 \u2022 http://www.tc.edu/cice Special SympoSium iSSue Aid, development, And educAtion EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 3 Introduction to the Special Symposium Issue Andrew K. Shiotani FEATURED ARTICLE 7 Aid, Development, and Education Steven J. Klees RESPONSES 29 The Ignorant Donor: A Radical Reimagination of International Aid, Development, and Education William C. Brehm and Iveta Silova 37 Improving Aid Effectiveness or Transforming the Global Capitalist System Mark Ginsburg 44 The Aid Debate: Beyond the Liberal/Conservative Divide Sangeeta Kamat 51 Paradoxes and Prospects: Moving Beyond the Study of Foreign Aid Karen Mundy REPLY 56 Towards a Progressive View of Aid, Development, and Education Steven J. Klees Current Issues in Comparative Education 2 Current Issues in Comparative Education CURRENT ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Volume 13, Issue 1 (Fall 2010) Special Symposium Issue Editors: Andrew K. Shiotani, Ryan Hathaway, and Michelle Hollett EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor Matthew Hayden Executive Editor Andrew K. Shiotani Senior Editors Ryan Hathaway, Ruaridh MacLeod, Sarah Flatto Editors Toni Cela, Anne Gaspers, Molly Hamm, Michelle Hollett, Rachel Hatch, Jason Mellon, Carina Omoeva, Muntasir Sattar, Angye Rincon-Castillo Web Editor Andrew K. Shiotani INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Michael Apple, Mark Bray, Michael Cross, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Noel McGinn, Gary Natriello, Harold Noah, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Frances Vavrus COPYRIGHT Unless otherwise noted, copyrights for the texts which comprise all issues of Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) are held by the journal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11454", "words": "4595", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Kamat, Sangeeta", "title": "The Aid Debate: Beyond the Liberal/Conservative Divide", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aid; development; education; international; issues; klees; left; liberal; market; perspective; world", "summary": "Fall 2010 \u2022 ISSN 1523-1615 \u2022 http://www.tc.edu/cice Special SympoSium iSSue Aid, development, And educAtion EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 3 Introduction to the Special Symposium Issue Andrew K. Shiotani FEATURED ARTICLE 7 Aid, Development, and Education Steven J. Klees RESPONSES 29 The Ignorant Donor: A Radical Reimagination of International Aid, Development, and Education William C. Brehm and Iveta Silova 37 Improving Aid Effectiveness or Transforming the Global Capitalist System Mark Ginsburg 44 The Aid Debate: Beyond the Liberal/Conservative Divide Sangeeta Kamat 51 Paradoxes and Prospects: Moving Beyond the Study of Foreign Aid Karen Mundy REPLY 56 Towards a Progressive View of Aid, Development, and Education Steven J. Klees Current Issues in Comparative Education 2 Current Issues in Comparative Education CURRENT ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Volume 13, Issue 1 (Fall 2010) Special Symposium Issue Editors: Andrew K. Shiotani, Ryan Hathaway, and Michelle Hollett EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor Matthew Hayden Executive Editor Andrew K. Shiotani Senior Editors Ryan Hathaway, Ruaridh MacLeod, Sarah Flatto Editors Toni Cela, Anne Gaspers, Molly Hamm, Michelle Hollett, Rachel Hatch, Jason Mellon, Carina Omoeva, Muntasir Sattar, Angye Rincon-Castillo Web Editor Andrew K. Shiotani INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Michael Apple, Mark Bray, Michael Cross, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Noel McGinn, Gary Natriello, Harold Noah, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Frances Vavrus COPYRIGHT Unless otherwise noted, copyrights for the texts which comprise all issues of Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) are held by the journal. My interest in this essay therefore is to extricate the progressive perspective (as defined by Klees) from its premature burial and elaborate on progressive analysis on the future of aid and development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11455", "words": "11857", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Klees, Steven J.", "title": "Aid, Development, and Education", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aid; assistance; bank; countries; development; economic; education; growth; international; issues; klees; moyo; need; new; participation; poverty; research; riddell; world", "summary": "(p. 254) Towards the end of the book, Riddell summarizes the five fundamental problems he sees with the current system of aid: 1. Aid is still not provided in sufficient overall quantities to meet the different needs of poor countries\u2026. 2. Fall 2010 \u2022 ISSN 1523-1615 \u2022 http://www.tc.edu/cice Special SympoSium iSSue Aid, development, And educAtion EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 3 Introduction to the Special Symposium Issue Andrew K. Shiotani FEATURED ARTICLE 7 Aid, Development, and Education Steven J. Klees RESPONSES 29 The Ignorant Donor: A Radical Reimagination of International Aid, Development, and Education William C. Brehm and Iveta Silova 37 Improving Aid Effectiveness or Transforming the Global Capitalist System Mark Ginsburg 44 The Aid Debate: Beyond the Liberal/Conservative Divide Sangeeta Kamat 51 Paradoxes and Prospects: Moving Beyond the Study of Foreign Aid Karen Mundy REPLY 56 Towards a Progressive View of Aid, Development, and Education Steven J. Klees Current Issues in Comparative Education 2 Current Issues in Comparative Education CURRENT ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Volume 13, Issue 1 (Fall 2010) Special Symposium Issue Editors: Andrew K. Shiotani, Ryan Hathaway, and Michelle Hollett EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor Matthew Hayden Executive Editor Andrew K. Shiotani Senior Editors Ryan Hathaway, Ruaridh MacLeod, Sarah Flatto Editors Toni Cela, Anne Gaspers, Molly Hamm, Michelle Hollett, Rachel Hatch, Jason Mellon, Carina Omoeva, Muntasir Sattar, Angye Rincon-Castillo Web Editor Andrew K. Shiotani INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Michael Apple, Mark Bray, Michael Cross, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Noel McGinn, Gary Natriello, Harold Noah, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Frances Vavrus COPYRIGHT Unless otherwise noted, copyrights for the texts which comprise all issues of Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) are held by the journal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11456", "words": "2728", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Shiotani, Andrew L.", "title": "Education and Economic Crises", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aid; cice; development; education; international; issues; klees; world", "summary": "Fall 2010 \u2022 ISSN 1523-1615 \u2022 http://www.tc.edu/cice Special SympoSium iSSue Aid, development, And educAtion EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 3 Introduction to the Special Symposium Issue Andrew K. Shiotani FEATURED ARTICLE 7 Aid, Development, and Education Steven J. Klees RESPONSES 29 The Ignorant Donor: A Radical Reimagination of International Aid, Development, and Education William C. Brehm and Iveta Silova 37 Improving Aid Effectiveness or Transforming the Global Capitalist System Mark Ginsburg 44 The Aid Debate: Beyond the Liberal/Conservative Divide Sangeeta Kamat 51 Paradoxes and Prospects: Moving Beyond the Study of Foreign Aid Karen Mundy REPLY 56 Towards a Progressive View of Aid, Development, and Education Steven J. Klees Current Issues in Comparative Education 2 Current Issues in Comparative Education CURRENT ISSUES IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Volume 13, Issue 1 (Fall 2010) Special Symposium Issue Editors: Andrew K. Shiotani, Ryan Hathaway, and Michelle Hollett EDITORIAL BOARD Managing Editor Matthew Hayden Executive Editor Andrew K. Shiotani Senior Editors Ryan Hathaway, Ruaridh MacLeod, Sarah Flatto Editors Toni Cela, Anne Gaspers, Molly Hamm, Michelle Hollett, Rachel Hatch, Jason Mellon, Carina Omoeva, Muntasir Sattar, Angye Rincon-Castillo Web Editor Andrew K. Shiotani INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Michael Apple, Mark Bray, Michael Cross, Suzanne Grant Lewis, Noel McGinn, Gary Natriello, Harold Noah, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Frances Vavrus COPYRIGHT Unless otherwise noted, copyrights for the texts which comprise all issues of Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) are held by the journal. He argues in his review of five notable recent books on aid and development \u2013 the discussions by Easterly and Moyo, already mentioned above, as well as Thomas Dichter\u2019s Despite Good Intentions (2003), 4 Current Issues in Comparative Education Editorial Introduction David Ellerman\u2019s Helping People Help Themselves (2005), and Roger Riddell\u2019s Does Foreign Aid Really Work? (2007) \u2013 that \u2018mainstream\u2019 perspectives adhere to either neoliberal prescriptions or propose liberal meliorations that fail to do justice, in both a moral and intellectual sense, to the demands and requirements of genuine, progressive development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11457", "words": "7342", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Wagner, Daniel A.; Babson, Andrew; Murphy, Katie M.", "title": "How Much is Learning Measurement Worth?", "date": "2011", "keywords": "assessments; cice; costs; countries; data; education; international; issues; learning; lseas; national; pisa; university; wagner", "summary": "Simply not enough reliable data have been collected on assessment costs for the variety of assessments currently in use. The evaluation of assessment costs is an issue that will need considerably greater attention in the field of international education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11458", "words": "5963", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Ross, Heidi; Cen, Yuhao; Zhou, Zejun", "title": "Assessing Student Engagement in China", "date": "2011", "keywords": "assessment; blueprint; china; chinese; education; engagement; nsse; quality; school; student; survey; teaching", "summary": "Coupled with China\u2019s one-child family policy, college degree inflation since the tremendous expansion of higher education in the late 1990s8 has exacerbated the competition among high school students seeking admission into prestigious Chinese universities. Twelve hours of schoolwork a day is commonplace for high school students, not to mention extra weekend tutorials arranged by parents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11459", "words": "5292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Limlingan, Maria Cristina", "title": "On the Right Track", "date": "2011", "keywords": "childhood; children; chile; development; ecers; education; issues; items; preschool; quality; scale", "summary": "Concurrent relations between child care quality and child outcomes: The study of cost, quality, and outcomes in child care centers. Cross cultural methods enable researchers to test, modify and extend current theories of child development by providing insight into factors in child development that can either be universal or local (Pena, 2007).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11460", "words": "2393", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Spyridakis, Demetrios", "title": "M. Hadjiyanni, Contesting the Past, Constructing the Future", "date": "2011", "keywords": "cypriot; cyprus; education; greek; hadjiyanni; history; textbooks", "summary": "From the onset, Hadjiyanni clearly states two important aims of her study: (1) to corroborate her argument that both Greek and Turkish Cypriot textbooks are biased by using textual evidence, and (2) to provide perspectives on the biases from history teachers and educational researchers who actively propose solutions to this problem. Hadjiyanni\u2019s overarching theme is both sensible and well-argued: that Greek and Turkish Cypriot educators should abandon efforts to create a nationalistic barrier, which creates an \u201cus\u201d versus \u201cthem\u201d dichotomy between the two communities within Cyprus.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11461", "words": "6523", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Baldacchino, Godfrey", "title": "Meeting the Tests of Time: Small States in the 21st Century", "date": "2012", "keywords": "baldacchino; commonwealth; development; education; international; island; issues; scale; size; small; states; studies; university; world", "summary": "Its legitimacy as a rigorous conceptual category continues to be debated; even as small states assume a strident visibility on the world stage because of climate change negotiations. Education remains a key policy battleground for small states, as the latter balance human resource needs with the trans-territorial aspirations of their brightest and ablest (and often wealthiest).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11462", "words": "7046", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Crossley, Michael; Sprague, Terra", "title": "Learning from Small States for Post-2015 Educational and International Development", "date": "2012", "keywords": "commonwealth; crossley; development; education; international; issues; learning; n.a; post-2015; research; secretariat; states; unesco", "summary": "We now wish to conclude this section by highlighting the fact that by extending the boundaries of dominant interpretations of international development targets and goals, many small states have pioneered innovative developments in education, across all sectors, from which others \u2013 in small states and beyond \u2013 have much to learn. Following a highly influential pan-Commonwealth meeting on education in small states that was held in Mauritius during 1985 (Commonwealth Secretariat, 1985), and Bacchus and Brock\u2019s (1987) seminal publication The Challenge of Scale: Educational Development in the Small States of the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Secretariat played a lead role in supporting regional workshops, consultancies and publications focused directly upon small state priorities in education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11463", "words": "5618", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Straubhaar, Rolf", "title": "A Broader Definition of Fragility: The Communities and Schools of Brazil'sFavelas", "date": "2012", "keywords": "brazilian; community; drug; education; favelas; fragility; janeiro; rio; schools; social; states", "summary": "This role as broker between favela communities and local politicians granted AM leaders a great deal of political strength (Leeds & Leeds, 1977). Current Issues in Comparative Education 47 A Broader Definition of Fragile States Arias (2004) calls for the expansion of these types of democratic systems as a potential solution to favela instability, asserting that through sponsorship of local democratic schooling initiatives, international actors can provide favela communities with the means to develop innovative solutions to community problems and petition for necessary changes in state policy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11464", "words": "6248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Keskitalo, Pigga; Uusiautti, Satu; M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4, Kaarina", "title": "How to Make the Small Indigenous Cultures Bloom? Special Traits of S\u00e1mi Pedagogy in Finland", "date": "2012", "keywords": "culture; education; finland; issues; keskitalo; knowledge; language; m\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4; people; school; s\u00e1mi; teaching; uusiautti", "summary": "Many S\u00e1mi teachers act as pioneers in renewing S\u00e1mi education, but they should be systematically supported in Teaching components S\u00e1mi pedagogy Ordinary teaching The pupil\u2019s role Active, autonomous, flexible Passive, responsive The teacher\u2019s role Advising, guiding, trusting Dominating, distributing information The curriculum Local, appreciates and strengthens S\u00e1mi culture National Educational goals Cultural-sensitive, based on co-operation with the indigenous community National Conception of time Cyclic, flexible Linear Conception of place Connected with nature, wider than the classroom Classroom-bound Conception of knowledge Holistic, constructivist idea of learning Subject and time allocation divided according to textbooks and lessons Interaction Communality and co-operation Formal, controlled by teacher Table 1. Special Traits of S\u00e1mi Education in Finland Pigga Keskitalo S\u00e1mi University College, Norway Satu Uusiautti University of Lapland, Finland Kaarina M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4 University of Lapland, Finland This article discusses smallness from the point of view of the S\u00e1mi, an indigenous people of the Arctic, and describes today\u2019s S\u00e1mi education in Finland, the factors that have affected its formation and the challenges in strengthening it.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11465", "words": "9858", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Lisle, Jerome De", "title": "Explaining Whole System Reform in Small States: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago Secondary Education Modernization Program", "date": "2012", "keywords": "barriers; capacity; change; development; education; implementation; issues; lack; leadership; project; reform; school; sempcu; states; system; theory; tobago; trinidad", "summary": "Whether or not external assistance is sought, however, small states engaged in education reform must develop explicit and precise strategies to guide education change. In this study, whole system reform theory is bridged with contextualized small state and postcolonial theories to analyze themes derived from a qualitative analysis of experiences in a major reform project for the secondary school sector.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11466", "words": "9201", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Edwards, D. Brent Jr.", "title": "Small States and Big Institutions: USAID and Education Policy Formation in El Salvador", "date": "2012", "keywords": "education; education policy; international; moe; plan; policy; power; process; research; salvador; states; usaid; world", "summary": "In C. Brown (Ed.), Globalisation, international education policy & local policy formation: Voices from the developing world. Generally, however, it should be noted that the influence which international institutions possess and exercise in the making of education policy around the world has garnered much attention (Dale, 1999; Edwards, 2013; Mundy, 1998; Mundy & Ghali, 2009; Samoff, 2007, 2009; Verger, 2012; Verger, Novelli & Altinyelken, 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11467", "words": "7424", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Powell, Justin J.W.", "title": "Small State, Large World, Global University? Comparing Ascendant National Universities in Luxembourg and Qatar", "date": "2012", "keywords": "countries; country; education; global; issues; knowledge; luxembourg; national; qatar; qatar university; research; science; states; students; universities; university; world", "summary": "Comparing the small states of Luxembourg and Qatar, I analyze their ascendant national universities to find out the extent to which these higher education institutions reflect global norms relating to research universities \u2013 or the traditions of their host countries. Research universities offer spaces for multilingual, multicultural learning and for scientific discovery.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11468", "words": "8817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Welsh, Richard O.", "title": "Overcoming Smallness through Education Development: A Comparative Analysis of Jamaica and Singapore", "date": "2012", "keywords": "countries; development; education; education development; jamaica; national; policy; primary; quality; schools; singapore; states; system; vte; world", "summary": "Using a comparative analysis of education in Jamaica and Singapore, this paper explores the critical factors in education development in small states. This article argues that education development can substantively help small states overcome many of the limitations of their smallness that are exacerbated in an increasingly global economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11469", "words": "6771", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "18", "author": "Kushnarenko, Valentyna; Cojocari, Ludmila", "title": "Internationalization of Higher Education in Post-Soviet Small States: Realities and Perspectives of Moldova", "date": "2012", "keywords": "academic; collaboration; education; international; internationalization; issues; moldovan; new; post; research; soviet; states; universities; university", "summary": "We explore why Moldovan international education university policy makers consider international education activities as their current institutional policy priority. They have not yet developed the organizational and managerial capacity to negotiate as equals with international university partners.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11470", "words": "6258", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Schuelka, Matthew J.", "title": "Inclusive Education in Bhutan: A Small State with Alternative Priorities", "date": "2012", "keywords": "bank; bhutan; bhutanese; development; education; government; international; policies; policy; royal; states; system; world", "summary": "As Bhutan has shifted its educational policy from elite monasticism to secular \u2018Education for All\u2019, issues of educating a heterogenous student population led to the development of inclusive education policies. He is also conducting a year-long vertical case study on inclusive education policy and practice in Bhutan for his dissertation in fulfillment of a PhD in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11471", "words": "9492", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Burton, Lindsay J.", "title": "Building on Living Traditions: Early Childhood Education and Culture in Solomon Islands", "date": "2012", "keywords": "beliefs; childhood; children; communities; community; context; development; ece; education; issues; kahua; kindy; knowledge; learning; practices; research; study; values", "summary": "The Kahua Principles are comprised of four overarching local Kahua cultural values, which provide the basis for how the Kahua people are to behave and interact. Accordingly, it became critical for the lead researcher (a non-Kahuan) to extensively collaborate with a local research team, and more broadly with Kahua communities, to best access and interpret local perceptions and realities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11472", "words": "1729", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Williams, Hakim Mohandas Amani", "title": "Fragile States, by Lohar Brock, Hans-Henrick Holm, Georg S\u00f8rensen and Michael Stohl", "date": "2012", "keywords": "citizenship; education; state", "summary": "Because violence is often such a staple of fragile states, Brock et al. expend considerable effort in deconstructing the connection between violence and state fragility: they \u201cdo not argue that there is a deterministic, law-like relationship between state fragility and violence\u201d (p. 48); but acknowledge that \u201cstate fragility...is both a cause and a consequence of violence\u201d (p. 47). Nonetheless, this book represents a strong contribution toward widening our understanding of fragile states; and despite the far-ranging analysis of both endogenous and exogenous factors that shape state fragility, the authors are perhaps quite right when they insist that \u201cfundamental social change must come from [within and] not from outsiders\u201d (p. 136). \u2013 Reviewed by Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, Gettysburg College Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries, by Tristan McCowan and Sonia Gomez.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11473", "words": "1705", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Wright, Beth", "title": "Citizenship Education in Commonwealth Countries, by Tristan McCowan and Sonia Gomez", "date": "2012", "keywords": "citizenship; education; gomez; mccowan", "summary": "One of the major strengths of the book is its diversity in terms of not only the range of issues but also the representation of work done on small states \u2013 a not easily defined concept \u2013 in the Southern Pacific, Caribbean, African, European, and Mediterranean regions. Of great significance is his reference, though some scholars might argue somewhat uncritical, to the work of the Commonwealth Secretariat, World Bank, and other organizations and the role they played in identifying the educational challenges facing small states, and supporting their integration into the competitive global economy of the 21st century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11474", "words": "1235", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Fournillier, Janice B.", "title": "Education in Small States: Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives, and Local Dilemmas, edited by Peter Mayo", "date": "2012", "keywords": "education; issues; states", "summary": "One of the major strengths of the book is its diversity in terms of not only the range of issues but also the representation of work done on small states \u2013 a not easily defined concept \u2013 in the Southern Pacific, Caribbean, African, European, and Mediterranean regions. Of great significance is his reference, though some scholars might argue somewhat uncritical, to the work of the Commonwealth Secretariat, World Bank, and other organizations and the role they played in identifying the educational challenges facing small states, and supporting their integration into the competitive global economy of the 21st century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11475", "words": "1671", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Sammler, Katherine G.", "title": "Island Enclaves: Offshoring, Creative Governance, and Subnational Island Jurisdictions, by Godfrey Baldacchino", "date": "2012", "keywords": "island; ocean; sea; space", "summary": "As small island states know only too well, ocean space still comprehends contested legal regimes, with their oddly striated jurisdictions, extending progressively offshore: Territorial Waters, the Contiguous Zone, Exclusive Economic Zones, extended Continental Shelves, and ending in the High Seas or international waters. As Steinberg (1999) describes it, ocean space is \u201ca domain that is resistant to direct state surveillance and territoriality but that nonetheless has been incorporated within statist discourse\u2026[and these] contradictory tendencies in modern-era marine governance\u2026may be viewed as reflecting the ebb and flow of contradictory tendencies in the spatiality of capitalism\u201d (p. 254).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11476", "words": "1692", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kirshenbaum, Bradley A.", "title": "Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching, by Charlotte Danielson, Education in Small States: Policies and Priorities, by Michael Crossley, Mark Bray, and Steve Packer", "date": "2012", "keywords": "book; danielson; education; framework; states", "summary": "ISBN-13: 978-3631601044 In Neither World Polity nor Local or National Societies: Regionalization in the Global South \u2013 the Caribbean Community, Tavis Jules offers revealing insight on the development of education policy used for and within a purposefully constructed regional space. To this end, the book uses education policy to unearth how, through functional cooperation, these countries came together to form a trans-regional regime to help promote global awareness of the fragility and vulnerability of the Caribbean region.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11477", "words": "1800", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Fryer, Landis G.", "title": "Neither World Polity Nor Local or National Society: Regionalization in the Global South - The Carribean Community, by Tavis D. Jules", "date": "2012", "keywords": "caribbean; education; jules; policy; states", "summary": "This book provides a comprehensive introduction to tertiary education in small states encountering the effects of globalization. The second section provides a series of studies of the ways small states have initiated and reformed tertiary education at regional and national levels.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11478", "words": "1383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Rodriguez, Sophia", "title": "Tertiary Education in Small States: Planning in the Context of Globalization, edited by Michaela Martin and Mark Bray", "date": "2012", "keywords": "education; globalization; section; states", "summary": "This book provides a comprehensive introduction to tertiary education in small states encountering the effects of globalization. The second section provides a series of studies of the ways small states have initiated and reformed tertiary education at regional and national levels.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11479", "words": "4614", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Jules, Tavis D.", "title": "Re-reading the Anamorphosis of Educational Fragility, Vulnerability, and Strength in Small States", "date": "2012", "keywords": "commonwealth; development; education; international; jules; new; policy; research; small; states; world", "summary": "Editorial Introduction Re-reading the Anamorphosis of Educational Fragility, Vulnerability, and Strength in Small States Special Guest Editor Tavis D. Jules Loyola University Chicago The Raison d\u2019\u00eatre of Small States Research Not so long ago, across many disciplines, the study of small states was seen as a futile project since \u201csmall states have been rendered synonymous to chronically vulnerable and problematic territories for which aid, assistance and especially favourable deals are legitimate\u201d (Baldacchino, 2012, p. 237). Yet within the past eighteen months we have seen a popular resurgence of educational research on small states in comparative and international education (CIE) with at least two publications in 2011 (Education in Small States: Policies and Priorities by Michael Crossley, Mark Bray and Steve Packer, and Tertiary Education in Small States: Planning in the Context of Globalization edited by Michaela Martin and Mark Bray) and one in 2010 (Education in Small States: Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives and Local Dilemmas edited by Peter Mayo).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11488", "words": "4700", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Tobin, Joseph", "title": "Comparative, Diachronic, Ethnographic Research on Education", "date": "2014", "keywords": "change; childhood; children; cultures; education; japanese; new; preschool; story", "summary": "If I had to summarize the key findings of the new book in a single sentence, I would say that between the mid-1980s and the first decade of the new millennia, early childhood education in China changed a lot and Japanese preschools stayed much the same. In Chinese early childhood education, a new hybrid form of progressivism is emerging, that combines Dewey, Vygotsky, the Project Approach, and Reggio with Confucianism, Chinese socialist principles, and Chinese educational traditions that give importance to memory, performance, mastery, content knowledge, and critique.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11489", "words": "8876", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Verger, Antoni", "title": "Why do Policy-makers Adopt Global Education Policies? Toward a Research Framework on the Varying Role of Ideas in Education Reform", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adoption; education; education policy; global; ideas; issues; makers; new; policies; policy; privatization; processes; public; role; state; verger; world", "summary": "Finally, methodologically speaking, it is worth mentioning that comparative education is potentially well-suited to analyzing the impact of global education policy ideas, as comparative analysis is one of the most appropriate strategies for understanding why, to what degree, and under which particular circumstances the same transnational idea is more influential in some particular settings than in others. Focusing on policy adoption implies paying closer attention to, and producing more empirical research on, the processes, reasons and circumstances that explain how and why policy-makers (or other education stakeholders) select, embrace, and/or borrow global education policies, and aim to implement them in their educational realities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11490", "words": "2052", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Bartlett, Lesley", "title": "Vertical Case Studies and the Challenges of Culture, Context, and Comparison", "date": "2014", "keywords": "approach; comparison; culture; education; policy", "summary": "The chapter documents the historical succession of educational policies and discusses how structural adjustment, political shifts, and significant levels of World Bank funding for primary and secondary-level educational reforms paved the way for the adoption of LCP. Third, the VCS emphasizes the importance of transversal comparison, that is, of historically situating the processes or sets of relations under consideration and tracing the creative appropriation of educational policies and practices across time and space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11491", "words": "5421", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Steiner-Khamsi, Gita", "title": "Comparison and Context: The Interdisciplinary Approach to the Comparative Study of Education", "date": "2014", "keywords": "approach; case; comparison; context; countries; culture; education; issues; policy; studies; study", "summary": "Other global education policies are sold to national or local governments more often than not at a very high price with the argument of spill-over to other non- paticipating schools. For more than twenty years, multicultural education studies have experienced a fascinating debate over the attribution fallacy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11492", "words": "2646", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Varenne, Herve", "title": "Comments on Tobin\u2019s Contribution to Comparative Research in Anthropology and in Education", "date": "2014", "keywords": "anthropology; culture; education; tobin; work", "summary": "In other ways she does it within a cultural arbitrary because she cannot rely on a simple \u201cimposition of force\u201d (or rational functionalism for that matter). The comparative perspective, in anthropology and the fields concerned with the comparison of education, schooling, and other formal practices, must be the foundation of all theories of human action, including pedagogical and political action.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11493", "words": "1211", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Farah, Samar; Steiner-Khamsi, Gita", "title": "Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Culture, Context, and Comparison in Education and Development", "date": "2014", "keywords": "context; education; university", "summary": "Microsoft Word - 16_2_Samar_Farah_Gita_Steiner-Khamsi.docx \u00a9 2014 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Samar Farah is a Doctoral Candidate in International and Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11502", "words": "10696", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Hickling-Hudson, Anne", "title": "Theatre-Arts Pedagogy for Social Justice: Case Study of the Area Youth Foundation in Jamaica", "date": "2013", "keywords": "area; arts; ayf; caribbean; communities; education; graham; group; hickling; hudson; issues; jamaica; learning; members; pedagogy; people; school; skills; theatre; work; youth", "summary": "A theory of literacies for considering the role of adult and community education in postcolonial change. Most students fail to attain five passes, and even worse, the majority of the 15-19 age cohort does not even sit for the examination.[2] The destinations of the latter group of young people include unemployment (37.0% among the 15-24 age group in January 2013, according to the Statistical Institute of Jamaica), subsistence living, or technical and vocational training and middle to low-level jobs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11503", "words": "8684", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ross, Karen", "title": "Promoting Change within the Constraints of Conflict: Case Study of Sadaka Reut in Israel", "date": "2013", "keywords": "bcp; change; conflict; education; group; israel; issues; organization; palestinian; participants; reut; sadaka; sadaka reut; society", "summary": "For example, Efrat, a Jewish woman who participated in Sadaka Reut activities during the late 1980s, explained to me: \u201cEverywhere I am, I read the reality in a critical manner . . . Likewise, Anna, a Jewish woman who ended her participation in Sadaka Reut activities only a few months before we spoke, told me that she had joined the organization as a social outlet, with no awareness of socio-political issues.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11504", "words": "5221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Abolfazli, Maryam; Alemi, Maryam", "title": "Promoting Civic Engagement in Schools in Non-Democratic Settings: Transforming the Approach and Practices of Iranian Educators", "date": "2013", "keywords": "citizenship; civic; course; education; engagement; iran; online; school; students; teachers", "summary": "The vignettes follow different teachers in different contexts and courses to provide a variety of viewpoints and perspectives. Promoting Civic Engagement in Schools in Non-Democratic Settings: Transforming the Approach and Practices of Iranian Educators Maryam Abolfazli Maryam Alemi Eurasia Foundation,[1] USA Eurasia Foundation, USA Established in 2011, the Online School of Civic Education (the Online School) is intended to give Iranian teachers and educators the opportunity to reflect, experiment, and create classroom experiences aimed at teaching their students how to think, rather than what to think.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11505", "words": "10382", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ritchie, Scott; Cone, Neporcha; An, Sohyun; Bullock, Patricia", "title": "Teacher Education for Social Change: Transforming a Content Methods Course Block", "date": "2013", "keywords": "candidates; change; courses; education; educators; issues; justice; justice education; justice teacher; methods; new; program; social; students; teacher; teacher education; teaching", "summary": "In what follows, we situate our study within social justice teacher education, outline the methodology we used in conducting the study, share our results, and conclude with implications for teacher education focused on social justice. Thus, we perceive social justice education (SJE) and social justice teacher education (SJTE) as complex endeavors that are not reducible simply to a method or methods.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11506", "words": "5256", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Pulido, Isaura B.; Cortez, Gabriel Alejandro; de Bradley, Ann Aviles; Miglietta, Anton; Stovall, David", "title": "Re-framing, Re-imagining, and Re-tooling Curricula from the Grassroots: The Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce", "date": "2013", "keywords": "cgct; chicago; community; curriculum; development; education; grassroots; new; school; students; teachers; university; work", "summary": "For example, during one class session, a CGCT member asked education students, \u201cWhat are the issues facing young people today?\u201d Without adequate but unimposing follow-ups, CGCT curriculum can quickly become an afterthought.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11507", "words": "5384", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hirano, Tatiana Lotierzo; Magalh\u00e3es, Giovanna Mod\u00e9; Croso, Camilla; Giannecchini, Laura; Munhoz, Fab\u00edola", "title": "Education Community Dialogue towards Building a Policy Agenda for Adult Education: Reflections Drawn from Experience", "date": "2013", "keywords": "campaign; clade; education; epja; issues; latin; right; school; students; voices", "summary": "This means that they should be recognized as the main actors to be consulted and considered during debates on public education policies and also that their perceptions and desires for an education that is meaningful to them should be the basis for collective action towards developing a public education policy agenda. We focus on the case of the \u201cAmplifying Voices\u201d initiative, which aims to provide an open space for critical thinking and dialogue for youth and adult education actors, towards shaping education policy and promoting social change.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11508", "words": "7639", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Bellei, Cristi\u00e1n; Cabalin, Cristian", "title": "Chilean Student Movements: Sustained Struggle to Transform a Market-oriented Educational System", "date": "2013", "keywords": "bellei; chilean; education; institutions; issues; market; movements; new; policy; public; quality; santiago; schools; students; system; university", "summary": "Thus, at first glance, one may wonder why Chilean students protested so vigorously. Characteristics of the Chilean Student Movements: A New Generation of Activists It is possible to say that Chilean students are part of a new generation of political actors in education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11509", "words": "5659", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Williams, Dierdre; Ginsburg, Mark", "title": "Educating All to Struggle for Social Change and Transformation: Introduction to Case Studies of Critical Praxis", "date": "2013", "keywords": "article; change; education; global; issues; new; quality; rights; society; students; transformation; unesco; york", "summary": "This philosophical, political, and practical question gains expression in sub-fields within the field of education, including multicultural education (Banks, 2004; Banks & Banks, 2006; McLaren, 1997; Sleeter, 1996), citizenship education (Biesta, 2011; Kennedy, 1997; Sehr, 1997), education for social justice (Anyon, 2009; Ayers, Quinn & Stovall, 2009), critical education (Apple & Beane, 2007; Apple, Au, & Gandin, 2009), critical pedagogy (Giroux & McLaren, 1989; Kirylo, 2013; Weiler & Mitchell, 1992), and human rights education (Bajaj, 2011). In M. Apple, W. Au, & L. A. Gandin (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of critical education (pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11510", "words": "1128", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Bishop, Emily S.", "title": "Editorial Introduction: Birthday \u201cBumps\u201d", "date": "2013", "keywords": "cie; education; field; issues", "summary": "We were delighted by the response, and excited by the critical, innovative thinking that inspired the \u201cbumps\u201d shaking up CIE traditions, from the principles of Education For All to the methods Emily S. Bishop 4 Current Issues in Comparative Education that shape our research. !! Microsoft Word - 16_1_Emily_Bishop.docx \u00a9 2014 Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11511", "words": "4146", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Sobe, Noah W.; Kowalczyk, Jamie A.", "title": "Exploding the Cube: Revisioning \u201cContext\u201d in the Field of Comparative Education", "date": "2013", "keywords": "context; education; field; objects; research; sobe; university; ways", "summary": "(p. 361) Sadler\u2019s organicist argument about \u201cnative soil\u201d is enmeshed in a colonialist logic of governance that makes it a highly inadequate model for addressing the issue of Context in conducting comparative education research today. The problem of context in comparative education research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11512", "words": "7094", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Menashy, Francine", "title": "Theorizing Privatization in Education: Comparing Conceptual Frameworks and the Value of the Capability Approach", "date": "2013", "keywords": "approach; capability; choice; development; education; framework; goods; human; policies; privatization; rights; schools", "summary": "The evolving regulatory context for private education in emerging economies. Private education and \u201cEducation for All\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11513", "words": "5905", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Wright, Beth", "title": "Breaking Tradition: Taking Stock of Research on Global School Choice", "date": "2013", "keywords": "choice; education; policies; reforms; scholars; school; school choice; way", "summary": "Then, it describes the various ways in which scholars have conceptualized school choice policies as global. Doing so would allow for a more complex understanding of the ways in which school choice policies play out and influence various actors across global spaces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11514", "words": "6292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Woo, David", "title": "Neoliberalism in Two Hong Kong School Categories", "date": "2013", "keywords": "categories; category; dss; education; government; hong; hong kong; international; kong; neoliberalism; schools; system", "summary": "I then apply a neoliberal framework to a changing Hong Kong socio-economic context and the governance of two categories of Hong Kong schools: international schools and Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) schools. As Hong Kong schools traditionally \u201care remarkably homogeneous and cannot meet the increasingly diversified needs of parents and their children,\u201d and are \u201chighly centralized and controlled,\u201d the government has a role in meeting differentiated demand and expanding choice for education (Yung, 2006, p. 96).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11515", "words": "7339", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Ngo, Mai", "title": "Canadian Youth Volunteering Abroad: Rethinking Issues of Power and Privilege", "date": "2013", "keywords": "canadian; development; education; international; issues; organizations; people; power; social; volunteering; volunteers; youth", "summary": "The traditional volunteering model has become imbued with complications that pervade international development, as volunteer organizations are under greater pressure to Mai Ngo \u00a0 60 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Current \u00a0Issues \u00a0in \u00a0Comparative \u00a0Education \u00a0 produce development results in their programs. Yet there has been less focus on Canadian youth volunteers who make a conscious effort to counter the harmful actions that youth volunteers have the reputation for bringing with them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11516", "words": "6547", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Pai, Grace", "title": "Particularizing Universal Education in Postcolonial Sierra Leone", "date": "2013", "keywords": "bunumbu; community; development; education; leone; project; rural; schools; sierra; sierra leone; unesco; universal; university", "summary": "Particularizing Universal Education in Postcolonial Sierra Leone Grace Pai New York University This paper presents a vertical case study of the history of universalizing education in postcolonial Sierra Leone from the early 1950s to 1990 to highlight how there has never been a universal conception of universal education. Through a historical analysis of education in Sierra Leone from the years leading up to independence in 1961 to the years prior to the civil war in 1991, this paper rectifies that temporal inaccuracy, and revisits past efforts so as to better inform current debates and policies on universal education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11517", "words": "7101", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Heyneman, Stephen P.", "title": "The International Efficiency of American Education: The Bad and the Not-So-Bad News", "date": "2013", "keywords": "american; countries; czech; education; efficiency; hungary; pisa; poland; rep; school; scores; students; table; time; u.s", "summary": "Portugal \u2022 Spain \u2022 U.K. 30 Delaware 31.3 28 Hungary \u2022 Italy \u2022 Portugal \u2022 Spain \u2022 U.K. 31 Illinois 30.8 27 Czech Rep \u2022 Italy \u2022 Portugal \u2022 Spain \u2022 U.K. 32 New York 30.2 28 Hungary \u2022 Italy \u2022 Portugal \u2022 Spain \u2022 U.K. 33 Missouri 29.9 28 Hungary \u2022 Italy \u2022 Portugal \u2022 Spain \u2022 U.K. 34 Michigan 28.9 30 Ireland \u2022 France \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 U.K. 18 Iowa 35.2 19 Czech Rep \u2022 France \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 U.K. 19 Indiana 35.1 19 Czech Rep \u2022 France \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 U.K. 20 Oregon 34.8 20 Czech Rep \u2022 Hungary \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 U.K. 21 Connecticut 34.7 19 France \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 Spain \u2022 U.K. 22 Texas 34.7 21 Czech Rep \u2022 Hungary \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 U.K. 23 Nebraska 34.6 20 Czech Rep \u2022 Hungary \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 U.K. 24 North Carolina 34.5 21 Czech Rep \u2022 Hungary \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 U.K. 25 Maine 34.1 22 Czech Rep \u2022 Hungary \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 U.K. 26 Idaho 34.1 22 Czech Rep \u2022 Hungary \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 U.K. 27 Utah 32.4 26 Italy \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 Spain \u2022 U.K. 28 Alaska 32.2 26 Italy \u2022 Poland \u2022 Portugal \u2022 Spain \u2022 U.K. United States 32.2 22 Italy \u2022 Latvia \u2022 Poland \u2022 Spain \u2022 U.K. 29 South Carolina 31.9 26 Italy \u2022 Poland \u2022", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11518", "words": "6428", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Cortina, Regina; Makar, Carmina; Mount-Cors, Mary Faith", "title": "Dual Language as a Social Movement: Putting Languages on a Level Playing Field", "date": "2015", "keywords": "community; education; english; language; language programs; new; parents; programs; school; students; york", "summary": "In this paper, we address the quest of school leaders and parents to achieve successful academic results for Latino students through dual language programs. Manuel Pastor\u2019s ten elements of social movements (Pastor, 2013; Pastor & Ortiz, 2009) serve as a useful framework for understanding dual language programs as a social movement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11519", "words": "5626", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Storm, Elliot", "title": "Brokerage, Political Opportunity, and Protest in Venezuelan Higher Education Reform", "date": "2015", "keywords": "ch\u00e1vez; education; education law; government; law; new; opposition; state; universities; university; university education", "summary": "Many of the prominent student leaders that led the first anti-government Storm 20 Current Issues in Comparative Education student protests in 2007, a number of whom came from private universities without FCU branches [3], had since graduated, leaving a leadership and organizational vacuum (Brading, 2013, p. 131). Students at the private and experimental universities, on the other hand, were not particularly concerned with the issue of parity either way, for the majority of them attended institutions where authorities were still chosen by the Ministry of University Education (experimental universities) or by parochial governing boards (private universities).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11520", "words": "5042", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Shepherd, Alison Victoria", "title": "Government versus Teachers: The Challenges of Educational Progress in Oaxaca, Mexico", "date": "2015", "keywords": "development; education; government; mexico; oaxaca; school; state; students; teachers; union; university", "summary": "SUNEO takes pride in its \u201cstrict work regime\u201d demonstrated by a five year full-time schedule for university students and digital fingerprint check-in for professors to ensure that teachers work the hours they are paid for. Another university student participating in the questionnaire offered an analysis: Negatives: There are still labor strikes by the union, they don\u2019t tell us why, mainly by primary school teachers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11521", "words": "8027", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Froman, Nica", "title": "Human Rights Education and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme", "date": "2015", "keywords": "activities; course; curriculum; education; human; international; issues; rights; rights education; students; united", "summary": "Just as the civil rights movement sought a more equal society, the human rights education (HRE) movement aims to establish a global society prioritizing and upholding human rights. The educationalist approach to HRE further aims to legitimize the human rights framework and attract students to human rights in an effort to gain mass support for the human rights movement, thereby placing pressure on authorities to uphold human rights standards.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11523", "words": "7893", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Post, David", "title": "Does Watching Help? In Search of the Theory of Change for Education Monitoring", "date": "2015", "keywords": "change; countries; development; education; efa; goals; information; international; issues; monitoring; movement; new; progress; report; rights; world", "summary": "The reports of these Watch groups serve as a template for the monitoring of education progress. It may also connect education monitoring with other \u201cWatches\u201d that have continued to take a developmentalist view of social progress, including the NGO-led Social Watch and the UNDP\u2019s own Human Development Report, both of which followed less in the human rights tradition of Helsinki Watch than in the tradition of the World Bank\u2019s World Development Report, which began in 1978.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11524", "words": "766", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Sirota, Sandra", "title": "Editorial Introduction: Analyzing Social Movement Actions and Outcomes", "date": "2015", "keywords": "education; movement; rights", "summary": "In addition to movements advocating for equity and justice in and across schools, schools themselves are becoming places where the tactics of social movements are also learned\u2014e.g. human rights courses and service-learning projects create opportunities for political engagement and advocacy among students. In \u201cHuman Rights Education and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme,\u201d she suggests that while the course does contain some essential elements of human rights education, it does not sufficiently promote education through and for human rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11525", "words": "8297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "\u00dcnl\u00fc, Ali; Schurig, Michael", "title": "Computational Typologies of Multidimensional End-of-Primary-School Performance Profiles from an Educational Perspective of Large-Scale TIMSS and PIRLS Surveys", "date": "2016", "keywords": "analysis; cluster; competency; data; latent; means; methods; model; performance; pirls; profile; scale; solution; timss; values", "summary": "The classic k-means, hierarchical and fuzzy cluster analyses, based on the measurement error controlled performance data, yielded results comparable to the model-supported latent profile analysis. A dendrite method for cluster analysis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11526", "words": "5866", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Saraisky, Nancy Green", "title": "Using Media Content Analysis to Understand Education Policy Context", "date": "2016", "keywords": "analysis; article; content; data; discourse; education; issues; media; pisa; policy; public; research", "summary": "Focusing specifically on media, I show how media content analysis can produce nuanced insights about the ways in which educational ideas are understood in a local context. Drawing on a research project that analyzed thirteen years of media coverage of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), I demonstrate the utility of media content analysis for understanding the way in which ideas and global trends influence national education policy on the ground.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11527", "words": "5544", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Byker, Erik Jon; Banerjee, Aditi", "title": "Evidence for Action: Translating Field Research into a Large Scale Assessment", "date": "2016", "keywords": "action; aser; aser methodology; aser survey; assessment; data; education; india; survey; volunteers", "summary": "This article examines a case study of ASER volunteers (n=37) who are prepared to carry out the ASER methodology. Not only are the MTs being trained to conduct the ASER survey, but they are also tasked with the responsibility of recruiting and helping to train an additional 50 volunteers who will assist them in carrying out ASER survey throughout Punjab\u2019s many districts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11528", "words": "5429", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Read, Robyn; Fernandez-Hermosilla, Magdalena; Anderson, Stephen; Mundy, Karen", "title": "Identifying Research Priorities for School Improvement in the Developing World", "date": "2016", "keywords": "chnri; education; exercise; experts; issues; priorities; research; school; setting; world", "summary": "While the traditional CHNRI model is not directly applicable to education research, an adapted version of this methodology provides an evidence-based approach to support the decision making process of research funders. Rather than focusing on the results of the exercise itself, this paper discusses the CHNRI method and the concepts learned from adapting this method for education research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11529", "words": "5012", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Woo, David J.", "title": "Advancing Ecological Models to Compare Scale in Multi-level Educational Change", "date": "2016", "keywords": "change; davis; education; ict; interactions; level; models; scale; school; unit", "summary": "Therefore, unlike the original Law, Yuen and Lee (2015) model, these translated models do not have across unit columns for within level and across level interactions. They also resemble Law, Yuen and Lee\u2019s (2015) multi-scale, multi-level model of scalability in that they visualize within and across level interactions (see Figures 2 and 3).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11530", "words": "6857", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Tan, Charlene", "title": "Investigator Bias and Theory-Ladenness in Cross-Cultural Research: Insights from Wittgenstein", "date": "2016", "keywords": "beliefs; bias; china; data; education; investigator; ladenness; picture; research; theory; wittgenstein; world", "summary": "Commenting on the above quote, Bax (2011) points out, \u201cthat On Certainty explains world pictures as open and dynamic does not only mean that it allows for difference and divergence to occur naturally and accidentally; it also indicates what opportunities there Tan Current Issues in Comparative Education 88 are for knowingly disengaging oneself, if only temporarily, from the world picture one has inherited\u201d (p. 136). Faith and science: World culture theory and comparative education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11531", "words": "1138", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Allen, Ryan M", "title": "Editorial Introduction: Innovative Methods in the Field", "date": "2016", "keywords": "cie; education; field; research", "summary": "Bereday, like Sadler, too moved the field through new methods of understanding our subject of education. Comparativists, by nature, have and always will be discovering new methods of inquiry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11532", "words": "8233", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Wilinski, Bethany; Nguyen, Cuong Huy; Landgraf, Jessica M.", "title": "Global Vision, Local Reality: Transforming Pre-Primary Teacher Training in Tanzania", "date": "2016", "keywords": "diploma; ece; education; issues; policy; ppe; ppe diploma; pre; program; students; tanzania; teachers; teaching; training", "summary": "At the same time, these efforts may be undermined by the social, cultural, and material realities of PPE teacher training. In the sections that follow, we situate this analysis of PPE teacher training within the growing movement to reform ECE teacher training and then describe the specific context of ECE in Tanzania.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11533", "words": "6412", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Monreal, Timothy", "title": "Is There \u2018Space\u2019 for International Baccalaureate? A case study exploring space and the adoption of the IB Middle Year Programme", "date": "2016", "keywords": "baccalaureate; community; education; ibo; international; issues; jms; myp; school; space; students", "summary": "It was clear administrators felt that school education was changing, and the IB offered a path to move forward. Introduction The rapid expansion of the International Baccalaureate (IB) verifies that international education is no longer reserved solely for international schools.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11534", "words": "7349", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ipe, Rebecca", "title": "\u201cI Want to Help Girls Like Me\u201d: An Exploration of the Educational Aspirations of Teenage Girls in Kolkata Slums", "date": "2016", "keywords": "children; community; education; girls; india; issues; jour; poor; research; school; settlements; slums; urban; visual; women", "summary": "\u201cI Want to Help Girls Like Me\u201d: An Exploration of the Educational Aspirations of Teenage Girls in Kolkata Slums Rebecca Ipe University of Oxford This qualitative study used participatory visual research in order to develop an understanding of the educational experiences of urban poor adolescent girls in Kolkata and to elicit their capabilities. The sample comprised urban poor girls who were undergoing formal education at a religious, philanthropic primary school in Kolkata.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11535", "words": "5893", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Choi, Jin; Sojer, Thomas", "title": "Aesthetic Education: a Korean and an Austrian Perspective", "date": "2016", "keywords": "art; beauty; cognitive; education; emotions; issues; korea; responses; robinson; simone; university; weil", "summary": "The following first discourse aims, within the educational context of Korea, to investigate the educational assumption that art contributes to moral education in children. This paper analyses the arguments in Korea and Austria for aesthetic education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11536", "words": "6733", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Campbell, Anne C.", "title": "International Scholarship Graduates Influencing Social and Economic Development at Home: The Role of Alumni Networks in Georgia and Moldova", "date": "2016", "keywords": "alumni; alumni networks; countries; education; georgia; graduates; moldova; networks; program; scholarship; social; u.s", "summary": "Additional research can further understanding of what qualities and attributes make scholarship alumni networks successful in other countries and how to best transform a network that is struggling. Acknowledgements: This article summarizes a portion of findings from the author\u2019s doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of Minnesota. An additional challenge to understanding how scholarship program alumni contribute to social and economic development in their home countries is a focus on individual alumni trajectories instead of accomplishments made by a group (see examples in Kalisman, 2015 and Volkman, Dassin, & Zurbuchen, 2009).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11537", "words": "6791", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Jayapragas, Prashant", "title": "Leaders in Education Program: The Singapore Model for Developing Effective Principal-ship Capability", "date": "2016", "keywords": "development; education; issues; leadership; learning; lep; model; participants; policy; principals; program; school; singapore", "summary": "While the LEP has gained worldwide admiration for heightening participant\u2019s awareness of the interactive nature of the \u201croles\u201d and \u201cminds\u201d of school leadership, this model is found to be \u201cespecially selective,\u201d attracting just 5% of the intended population. This was also reported by the Wallace Foundation in 2011, which highlighted the empirical link between school leadership and improved student achievement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11538", "words": "6681", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Mochizuki, Yoko", "title": "Educating for Transforming Our World: Revisiting International Debates Surrounding Education for Sustainable Development", "date": "2016", "keywords": "change; citizenship; climate; desd; development; education; efa; esd; human; issues; new; paris; unesco; world", "summary": "In its guidance document on global citizenship education, UNESCO (2015b) writes: \u201cGlobal citizenship education aims to be transformative, building the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that learners need to be able to contribute to a more inclusive, just and peaceful world\u201d (p.15). Global citizenship education: A new educational, pedagogical and political narrative in the world system?.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11539", "words": "1067", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Liu, Ji", "title": "A Vibrant Field, an Evolving Journal: Editorial Introduction", "date": "2016", "keywords": "cice; education; issue; theme", "summary": "Beginning with this issue, CICE will provide more space for timely discussions on an array of topics by producing a series of open theme issues. \u00a9 2016, Current Issues in Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11540", "words": "6987", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Zhang, Yu; Zhou, Xuehan", "title": "Can Higher Household Education Expenditure Improve the National College Entrance Exam Performance? Empirical Evidence from Jinan, China", "date": "2017", "keywords": "achievement; education; education expenditure; effect; expenditure; household; household education; ncee; school; score; students", "summary": "Although public expenditure has been extensively researched in the context of debates on school effectiveness and government accountability (Tsang 1994; Tsang and Ding 2005), very limited data for household education expenditure has been provided, primarily due to data constraints. Household education expenditures are private resources that augment public resources to education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11541", "words": "10565", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Yao, Haogen", "title": "How Socio-Emotional Support Affects Post-Compulsory Education Decisions in Rural China", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aspiration; china; decisions; delphi; education; issues; level; lighthouse; participation; quantiles; school; socio; students; study; support; volunteers; yes", "summary": "For the most common NN matching, a student in the control group (non-Lighthouse student) is matched to a treated student (Lighthouse student) based on the closest propensity score. The full valid sample size is 6,298 students6 from eight surveyed schools (each town has only one middle school), among which the treated sample size is 678 for Lighthouse students from six schools.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11542", "words": "6511", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "You, You; Zhu, Feifei; Ding, Xiaohao", "title": "College Student Entrepreneurship in China: Results from a National Survey of Directors of Career Services in Chinese Higher Education Institutions", "date": "2017", "keywords": "china; chinese; college; college student; education; entrepreneurship; graduates; rate; student; student entrepreneurship; universities", "summary": "Different from previous studies, our study integrates college student entrepreneurship indicators at all stages (e.g., interest, intention, actual entrepreneurship, survival) and tries to provide an all-in-one description of college student entrepreneurship in China. In addition, the extensiveness in terms of the survey\u2019s geographical scope enables our findings to represent the general status of college student entrepreneurship in China.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11543", "words": "9736", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Gong, Xin; Wang, Pengcheng", "title": "A Comparative Study of Pre-service Education for Preschool Teachers in China and the United States", "date": "2017", "keywords": "childhood; childhood education; china; college; degree; education; normal; preparation; preschool; programs; service; system; teachers; teaching; training; university", "summary": "We searched relevant literature using several keyword variations, including preschool teacher preparation, preschool teacher education, preparation of ECE, teachers in the US and China, using both English and Chinese sources. What can the two countries learn from their experiences in teacher education?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11544", "words": "9179", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Li, Jing; Guo, Fei; You, You", "title": "Study Abroad during College: Comparison between China and the United States", "date": "2017", "keywords": "abroad; achievement; china; chinese; college; education; impact; issues; journal; propensity; research; sample; score; students; study", "summary": "The most recent Chinese College Student Survey (CCSS) shows that 6% of college students studied abroad before graduation and approximately 35% of students are planning to do so. The American dataset used is from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) 2014 conducted by Indiana University.1 The Chinese dataset we used is the restricted use data from the Chinese College Student Survey (CCSS), which is the largest national survey on college students in China.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11545", "words": "9824", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Guo, Fei", "title": "The Incidence and Influencing Factors of College Student Term-time Working in China", "date": "2017", "keywords": "china; chinese; college; education; factors; heis; internships; jobs; students; study; term; time; time jobs; time working; working", "summary": "Investigation and analysis of the current situation of working college students (in Chinese). Introduction After 18 years of rapid expansion, the Chinese higher education system has become the largest in the world, with more than 41.4 million students in over 2,800 institutions in the year of 2015.1 Along with the enrollment expansion is the changing environment faced by college students.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11546", "words": "10466", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Yu, Li", "title": "Did Better Colleges Bring Better Jobs? Estimating the Effects of College Quality on Initial Employment for College Graduates in China", "date": "2017", "keywords": "college; college quality; education; elite; employment; graduates; issues; job; jobs; major; project; quality; sample; status; students", "summary": "Estimating the Effects of College Quality on Initial Employment for College Graduates in China Li Yu Institute of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology The unemployment problem of college students in China has drawn much attention from academics and society. For example, Chen and Tan (2004) selected a sample of college students from South Central China and regarded employment as an occupational attainment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11547", "words": "1977", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Tsang, Mun C.; Liu, Ji", "title": "An Introduction of the Special Issue on the Economics of Education in China", "date": "2017", "keywords": "china; chinese; college; economics; education; teachers", "summary": "An Introduction of the Special Issue on the Economics of Education in China Mun C. Tsang Teachers College, Columbia University Ji Liu Teachers College, Columbia University The history of Teachers College\u2019s involvement with China and Chinese education dates back to its early founding years in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Given this unique institutional history and broader scholarly interest on China and Chinese education, Current Issues in Comparative Education is delighted to collaborate with the Center on Chinese Education to publish this special-themed issue.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11548", "words": "2249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "26", "author": "Henderson, Kevin A.", "title": "Enactive Processes, Critical Ontology, and the Digitization of Education", "date": "2018", "keywords": "digitization; education; kincheloe; knowledge; ontology; technology", "summary": "Critical perspectives on technology are important as they often challenge the dominant technological imaginaries in place (for more on imaginaries, see Hu within). Enactive Processes, Critical Ontology, and the Digitization of Education Kevin A. Henderson Teachers College, Columbia University This introduction will explore the relevant literature on enactive processes, critical ontology, and faculty agency in relation to the digitization of education [1].", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11549", "words": "6419", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Mendenhall, Mary; Skinner, Makala; Collas, Sophia; French, Sarah", "title": "Expanding Teacher Support through Mobile Mentoring in Kakuma Refugee Camp: Benefits and Challenges", "date": "2018", "keywords": "camp; education; kakuma; mentoring; mentors; mobile; refugee; support; teachers; technology; whatsapp", "summary": "A recent landscape review (Dahya, 2016) about the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in these contexts stated that technology has the potential to support education for marginalized populations in crisis contexts, and that teacher training and student learning are the primary areas of focus for utilizing technology for education. She is currently based in Kigali, Rwanda, where she works as a Global Design Consultant for Educate!, leading the design of teacher trainings, youth leadership and entrepreneurship courses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11550", "words": "5929", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Adjapong, Edmund S.; Emdin, Christopher; Levy, Ian", "title": "Virtual Professional Learning Network: Exploring an Educational Twitter Chat as Professional Development", "date": "2018", "keywords": "chat; development; educational; educators; learning; participants; twitter; vpln", "summary": "Rather, #HipHopEd educational Twitter chat provides a space where participants engage in conversations, share and receive information/resources around the topic of the chat. Because the #HipHopEd educational Twitter chat focuses on issues around Hip-Hop and education the structure of the educational Twitter chat is aligned to Hip-Hop culture and sensibilities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11551", "words": "991", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Hsueh, Chia-Ming", "title": "Recruiting International Students with Technology: The Changing and the Unchanged", "date": "2018", "keywords": "education; recruitment; students; technology", "summary": "In recent times, new technologies have had large impact within the education sector, and the domain of international student recruitment, itself an inherently complex, costly and competitive landscape, has been no exception (Becker et al., 2017). Further, since the emergence of global rankings and increasing competition, the role of the International Office has switched from engaging in academic cooperation and exchanges, to focusing on international student recruitment, services, and advertisements.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11552", "words": "2220", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hu, Zi", "title": "Book Review: Big Data in Education: The Digital Future of Learning, Policy and Practice", "date": "2018", "keywords": "data; education; issues; policy; students; williamson", "summary": "Lastly, as we take more seriously the moral dimension of education big data and technology, what kind of ethical guidelines should be put in place to ensure that educational technological developments are facilitating quality and equitable education for all? Given the multidisciplinary nature of educational big data, Williamson\u2019s (2017) ability to critically examine these new technological developments in education from an interdisciplinary perspective is yet another strength of the book.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11553", "words": "8192", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Zhang, Donghui; Luo, Yun", "title": "Under the Equity Discourse: Divergent School Practices for Rural Migrant Children in Chinese Urban Schools", "date": "2019", "keywords": "beijing; children; china; chinese; education; equity; issues; lotus; research; safety; school; social; students; study; teachers; urban", "summary": "These studies highlighted the chaos, tensions and the \u201ccounter-school culture\u201d prevalent in migrant schools facing legitimacy issues and with no government support, yet few ventured to examine the divergent school practices and their underlying rationales with regards to the education of migrant children within public schools. Scholars conducted in-depth ethnographies within migrant private schools or engaged in comparative studies between students in these schools and in public schools (Ming, 2014; Li, 2015; Xiong, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11554", "words": "6428", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Bruce, Elizabeth R.", "title": "Proactive, Reactive, Sustainable? Analyzing South Africa\u2019s Policy and Strategic Framework on HIV and AIDS for Higher Education", "date": "2019", "keywords": "africa; aids; development; education; health; hiv; issues; policy; south; south africa; students", "summary": "For Objective 1, peer educators and youth ambassadors are advocated to augment HIV education. For example, Objective 1 begins with two goals: \u201cReduced HIV infections\u201d and \u201cReduced vulnerability of higher education students and staff to HIV and AIDS\u201d (p. 34).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11555", "words": "8980", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Monk, Jeremy", "title": "Justifications and Impacts of Low-Fee Private Schools in Kenya and Uganda: Understanding Policy Evolutionary Mechanisms through Public Discourse of Bridge International Academies", "date": "2019", "keywords": "access; articles; bia; discourse; education; issues; kenya; lfps; low; new; public; quality; schools; students; uganda", "summary": "An editorial by an unnamed author stated that closing BIA schools will leave students without any alternatives (ID 11), and a teacher (a former BIA employee) wrote that the consequences of governments shutting down BIA schools will impact poor students, who were only able to attend school due to BIA (ID 22). For instance, Shannon May stated that BIA schools were helping poor children who could not access education due to congestion in public schools (ID 5), a short introduction to BIA in an article about technology said that the company manages over 400 schools in Kenya for low-income areas in slums where access to school is limited (ID 19), and a forum on education in Nairobi led the reporter to state that urban informal settlement demand for schooling has outstripped supply for lack of public schools in those areas (ID 15).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11556", "words": "6274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Milovanovitch, Mihaylo", "title": "Expectations, Distrust and Corruption in Education: Findings on Prevention through Education Improvement", "date": "2019", "keywords": "armenia; corruption; education; integrity; milovanovitch; oecd; parents; participants; policy; research; school; teachers; violations", "summary": "The work was initiated under the name of INTES (Integrity of Education Systems) in the context of the Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and included the development of a conceptual framework of education integrity, as well as the integrity research presented here.2 Following an insight from international anti-corruption practice that sector-specific solutions can be more effective than measures that are imposed from the \u201coutside\u201d (Boehm, 2014), the objective was to gather insights into how corruption in education can be addressed from within the sector, through improvements in areas that are within the professional remit of education practitioners and policy makers, such as assessment of student achievement, teacher policies, admission procedures, etc. Education integrity as a barrier to inclusion: evidence from Armenia, Kazakhstan, Serbia and Ukraine.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11557", "words": "7986", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Law, Lisa; Hafiz, Muhammad; Kwong, Theresa; Wong, Eva", "title": "Evaluating Students\u2019 Perceptions on the Effectiveness of Online Intercultural Learning Experience via a SPOC", "date": "2019", "keywords": "counterparts; course; discussion; education; experience; issues; learning; online; spoc; students; tas", "summary": "There were however challenges to online intercultural learning. A 3-phase strategic framework of implementing SPOC with the gradual involvement of overseas counterparts to cultivate online intercultural learning experiences are summarized and shown in Figure 3.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11558", "words": "4107", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Meyer, Joshua; Ewbank, Ann Dutton; Ellsworth, Ann", "title": "Pre-Service Teachers in Finland: Comparative Education through Short-Term Faculty-Led Study Abroad", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abroad; course; education; experience; finland; learning; students; study; term", "summary": "This pedagogical challenge compounds the difficulty in elucidating learning outcomes associated with short-term programs and stresses the importance of deliberate design and implementation to achieve academic outcomes and maximize student learning. Long et al. (2010) suggest a central aspect to the problem of establishing academic relevance is rooted in effectively assessing student learning, which has long been a challenge with study abroad experiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-11942", "words": "1946", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Esper, Tomas", "title": "Editorial introduction: Comparative & International Education in Turbulent Times", "date": "2023", "keywords": "cice; education; issues; journal; teachers; world", "summary": "Current Issues in Comparative Education 25(2), 4-7. https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?vkstXP https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?0ZLltJ https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?EJOL1K https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?kcqirx https://https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en Editorial Introduction discuss, and engage with these topics by reflecting on what\u2019s the role of Comparative and International Education in these turbulent times. 1. Editorial Introduction - v.10.9.23.docx Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Volume 25, Issue 2, Special Issue 2023 Editorial introduction: Comparative & International Education in Turbulent Times Tom\u00e1s Esper Teachers College, Columbia University 25 years have gone by since CICE's first edition, in 1998.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-12018", "words": "10777", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Long, Kyle; Streitwieser, Bernhard; Gitter, Joy", "title": "Inequities in Public Scholarship during the Pandemic: Who Made Predictions about the Future of Higher Education?", "date": "2024", "keywords": "comparative; covid-19; data; education; enrollment; experts; impact; international; issues; journal; leaders; pandemic; percent; predictions; public; research; students; thought; university; women", "summary": "Higher education predictions for 2021, part 2. The seminars provided a platform for higher education experts in different parts of the world to reflect on how the pandemic would impact the future of the sector.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-12035", "words": "8408", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Wu, Yu-Chieh", "title": "The Development of Intercultural Competence for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language through an Instructional Design Project", "date": "2024", "keywords": "competence; education; efl; english; issues; language; learning; literacy; module; motivation; online; participants; teachers; teaching", "summary": "Linguistics and the education of language teachers: Ethnolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic aspects. Critical literacy pedagogy guided the design of questions to encourage EFL teachers to explore assumptions, challenge perspectives, and critically analyze language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-12036", "words": "12138", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hu, Yang; Dong, Beifei", "title": "Similar Foci, Different Lenses: Literacy Education Beliefs and Practices of Chinese and U.S. Teachers", "date": "2024", "keywords": "beliefs; china; chinese; cts; education; education beliefs; instruction; knowledge; learning; literacy; literacy education; practices; students; teacher beliefs; teacher education; teachers; teaching; u.s; usts", "summary": "Keywords: cross-cultural study, teacher beliefs and practices, literacy teacher education, comparative education, international comparison, United States, China \u201cI love the idea of differentiated literacy instruction. Understanding the differing definitions of Similar foci, different lenses: Literacy education beliefs and practice of Chinese and U.S. teachers Current Issues in Comparative Education literacy is crucial for accurately interpreting and contextualizing the beliefs and practices of teachers from both countries in a comparative study.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-12047", "words": "1618", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Yan, Adrian", "title": "A Book Review: Shadow Education in the Middle East: Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications", "date": "2024", "keywords": "east; education; shadow; tutoring", "summary": "These perspectives cover the major providers and modes of private supplementary tutoring, the geographical and cultural variations that emerged in the second half of the 20th century, and the benefits and detriments of private tutoring. What emerges from the literature, as the authors argue, is that private tutoring may help slow learners catch up with academic studies and further motivate high achievers to perform well in national examinations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-12064", "words": "4492", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Hassan, Mariya", "title": "Decolonial Language Education and Identity Realization in Africa", "date": "2024", "keywords": "african; colonial; education; identity; language; language education; realization", "summary": "This understanding of how language education can contribute to inequality and social injustice is not new, considering the history of colonial language education in (former) colonies. The paper juxtaposes two lines of arguments: the first is an insistence on a return to Indigenous language education as a form of decolonial resistance and warnings against intellectual control through colonial language education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-12071", "words": "10422", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Merlain-Moffatt, Kella", "title": "In Conversation: Mother Tongue Education and Civic Engagement amongst Ga Youth ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "citizenship; community; education; engagement; english; ga language; ghana; ghanaian; issues; language; mother; participants; people; policy; school; tongue; youth", "summary": "In A. Kirkpatrick & T. Liddicoat (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of language education policy in Asia (pp. 29\u201341). Theory and practice\u2014language education models in Africa: Research, http://www.ethnologue.com/ https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2018.1524896 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4488817 In Conversation: Mother Tongue Education and Civic Engagement amongst Ga Youth Current Issues in Comparative Education 95 design, decision-making and outcomes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-12440", "words": "7364", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Zembylas, Michalinos", "title": "Rethinking Emotional Engagement in Human Rights Education through Affective Justice : ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "affective; education; emotions; hre; human; issues; justice; practices; rights; zembylas", "summary": "This emphasis risks neglecting the affective and embodied aspects of human rights violations globally, potentially leading learners to adopt a detached, rationalist view of human rights (e.g., Zembylas & Keet, 2018, 2019). For example, when learners within a particular setting feel and articulate their affective responses to human rights violations, these embodied practices directly inform what ultimately comes to be understood and accepted as justice and human rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-12509", "words": "9813", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Molla, Tebeje; Baker, Sally", "title": "Refugees and the Right to Education: Reflections on International Frameworks and the Australian Context", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; analysis; australia; education; equity; frameworks; global; government; issues; national; nations; policies; policy; refugee education; refugees; rights; students; support; united", "summary": "Viewing refugee education through the lens of human rights is rooted in the principle that everyone, regardless of citizenship status, should have equal educational opportunities as an integral aspect of their broader human rights. Keywords: human rights, refugee education, Refugee Convention, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Australia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-12845", "words": "10358", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Parakkal, Naivedya", "title": "Rights Deferred, Sustainable Futures Denied: Indigenous/Adivasi Lessons for Interrogating Tensions in Rights Education", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adivasi; article; colonial; development; education; forest; futures; global; human; india; interlocutors; issues; peoples; policy; research; rights; rights education; tensions; unesco; world", "summary": "Comparing Adivasi interlocutors\u2019 counter-colonial narratives with a thematic analysis of UNESCO\u2019s recent recommendations on human rights education reveal how interlocutors are noting the disconnect between policy promises of the right to dignity and everyday assaults on Adivasi personhood. Keywords: coloniality, Global South, human rights education, Indigenous expertise, unsustainable development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13060", "words": "7959", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "S\u00e1nchez Rojas, Angela", "title": "From Universal to Pluriversal: Transforming Human Rights Education Policies in Colombia", "date": "2025", "keywords": "colombia; education; framework; hre; human; international; knowledge; national; planedh; pluriversal; policies; policy; rights; rights education", "summary": "From Universal to Pluriversal: Transforming Human Rights Education Policies in Colombia .docx Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Volume 26, Issue 2, Special Issue 2024 From Universal to Pluriversal: Transforming Human Rights Education Policies in Colombia Angela S\u00e1nchez Rojas Independent Researcher This paper examines Colombia\u2019s National Plan for Human Rights Education (Plan Nacional de Educaci\u00f3n en Derechos Humanos, PLANEDH) as a case study to discuss how positivistic, Eurocentric, and Western constructions have influenced a hegemonic understanding of human rights education. Introduction Since the adoption of the United Nations Charter (1945) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (1948), the United Nations (UN) has worked toward advancing human rights education (HRE).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13139", "words": "7313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Agyemang-Badu, Saah; Tibbitts, Felisa; Phillips, Sage", "title": "AI Human Rights Literacy", "date": "2025", "keywords": "data; education; educators; human; intelligence; learners; learning; literacy; rights; students; systems", "summary": "The human rights perspective on AI\u2019s dynamic and changing field\u2014AI human rights literacy\u2014is critical to convey to instructors and learners as they navigate these new technological developments. AI systems are being integrated across nearly every domain of society, from healthcare and transportation to finance, media, and education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13151", "words": "6018", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Hough, Whitney", "title": "The PeaceJam Foundation: An Analytical Program Review through a Transformative Peace Education Lens", "date": "2025", "keywords": "ambassadors; change; conflict; contexts; curriculum; education; issues; peacejam; rights; thre; youth", "summary": "This article highlights one specific peace and human rights curriculum, the PeaceJam Foundation Ambassadors Curriculum, analyzing how its content and structure align with a THRE approach. Kepenecki\u2019s (2005) study of human rights education in Turkey, as an example, demonstrated the challenges of integrating human rights into the curriculum in that sometimes the language can be too legalistic, lofty, or advanced for learners to understand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13164", "words": "2730", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "23", "author": "Kajee, Jun", "title": "Book Review of \"The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions\" A Critical Pedagogy and Decolonial Analysis", "date": "2025", "keywords": "book; education; globalization; institutions; issues; sachs; technology", "summary": "Limitations While Sachs acknowledges diverse global perspectives, there could be a more in-depth exploration of non-Western epistemologies and their contributions to global development. In doing so, it builds on Arnove's (2007) dialectical analysis of global and local forces shaping education systems and Spring\u2019s (2008) examination of the globalization of education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13212", "words": "10524", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "\u9648, \u5929\u4e66; Das, Debojyoti ", "title": "Evaluation of the Impact of the 1.5 MAX Initiative on Climate Change Education (CCE) in Malawi Secondary Schools: An Education for Sustainable Development Framework Approach", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cce; change; change education; climate; climate change; development; education; esd; framework; impact; initiative; issues; knowledge; learning; malawi; max; research; students; sustainability", "summary": "Keywords: Climate change education, Education for sustainable development, decolonial framework, Malawi, 1.5 MAX initiative, teaching and learning support. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (2022) highlights that climate change education (CCE) can enhance individual and community resilience while driving societal transformation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13213", "words": "1472", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "das, debojyoti", "title": "Book Review of \"Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence\"", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropocene; book; education; sutoris", "summary": "The book ties ecological education to the broader conversation about decolonizing education, resonating with Global South decolonial and post-colonial scholars such as Linda Tuhiwai Smith (2012) and Ivan Illich (1971), who argue for the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in our pedagogic practice through deschooling mainstream education and through tools of conviviality. The book challenges the polarization of environmental education taking place through Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE), focusing on two ethnographic case studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13329", "words": "9572", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Arif, Muhammad; Ismail, Aneta; Jia Li, Yao", "title": "Teacher Resilience in the Aftermath of the 2022 Balochistan Floods: Coping Strategies and Educational Continuity in Primary Schools", "date": "2025", "keywords": "balochistan; climate; community; continuity; disaster; displacement; education; floods; issues; research; resilience; schools; strategies; study; support; teacher resilience; teachers; teaching", "summary": "Teacher Resilience in the Aftermath of the 2022 Balochistan Floods: Coping Strategies and Educational Continuity in Primary Schools.docx Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Volume 27, Issue 1, Special Issue 2025 Teacher Resilience in the Aftermath of the 2022 Balochistan Floods: Coping Strategies and Educational Continuity in Primary Schools Muhammad Arif Faculty of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China Aneta Ismail College of Nationalities and History, Southwest University, Chongqing, China Yao Jia Li Faculty of Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China This study analyzes teacher resilience in light of the 2022 floods in Balochistan, Pakistan, as teachers were displaced. Keywords: Teacher resilience, Balochistan floods, climate-induced displacement, coping strategies, educational continuity, adaptive teaching.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13331", "words": "7765", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "20", "author": "Pham, Tien", "title": "Migration, Climate, and Education: Proposing Human Rights-Based Education for Internally Displaced Learners in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries", "date": "2025", "keywords": "access; challenges; change; children; climate; climate change; disasters; displacement; education; gender; learners; learning; migration; research; rights; school; term", "summary": "Current Issues in Comparative Education 81 Migration, Climate, and Education: Proposing Human Rights-Based Education for Internally Displaced Learners in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries Tien Pham is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto, specializing in educational leadership and policy with a focus on climate change education and displaced learners in lower- and middle-income countries. To mitigate potential biases inherent in the snowball method and ensure comprehensive coverage, I systematically varied search terms and used diverse keyword combinations such as \u2018displacement,\u2019 \u2018internal displacement,\u2019 \u2018migration,\u2019 \u2019education,\u2019 \u2018climate change impacts,\u2019 \u2018natural disasters,\u2019 and \u2018displaced students.\u2019", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13332", "words": "6512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Madden, Lauren", "title": "New Jersey Teachers\u2019 Professional Learning About Climate Change", "date": "2025", "keywords": "change; climate; climate change; development; education; elementary; jersey; learning; middle; new; percent; school; teachers", "summary": "New Jersey Teachers\u2019 Professional Learning about Climate Change.docx Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Volume 27, Issue 1, Special Issue 2025 New Jersey Teachers\u2019 Professional Learning About Climate Change Lauren Madden The College of New Jersey During the 2022-23 academic year, New Jersey became the first state in the United States to adopt learning standards that support climate change education K-12 across all subject areas, offering an ideal context for exploring the relationship between education and climate change. It acknowledges that climate change education encompasses adaptation and mitigation to climate change effects, as well as understanding specific examples of lasting effects of climate change, including loss and damage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13335", "words": "2764", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Duvvuri, Srinitya", "title": "Does One Future Matter More Than the \u2018Other(ed)\u2019? A Brief Critical Analysis of the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development 2030 Framework", "date": "2025", "keywords": "climate; development; education; esd; racism; unesco", "summary": "Toward critical environmental education: A standpoint analysis of race in the American environmental context. The essay spotlights ways in which environmental education is taking a more critical and race-inclusive approach while honoring the principles that ESD 2030 proposes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13342", "words": "7470", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Iyengar, Radhika; Iftekhar, Syed Nitas ; A Witenstein, Matthew ; Chand, Karen ", "title": "Ecopedagogy as a Lever for Climate Justice Towards a Just Transition", "date": "2025", "keywords": "action; air; approach; climate; communities; community; development; earth; ecopedagogy; education; environmental; issues; justice; misiaszek; nature; new; policy; transition", "summary": "Current Issues in Comparative Education 199 The case studies related to air pollution and waste in India, the destruction of the forests in Malaysia, and the fires in Los Angeles, U.S., explain the realities people face in various geographies and showcase the potential that ecopedagogies have to reshape environmental education towards action and JT. This critical analysis process enables learners to develop a nuanced understanding of environmental issues and to confront their unconscious biases, leading to more informed and thoughtful engagement with ecological challenges.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13344", "words": "8529", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Kistner, Sarah Marie; Shoaib, Maha ", "title": "Bridging Worlds, Healing Scars: A Student-Teacher Journey Toward Climate-Just Education", "date": "2025", "keywords": "change; climate; communities; disasters; education; experiences; healing; issues; justice; process; resilience; school; shoaib; students; support; teachers; trauma", "summary": "Despite the extensive research on climate education, practice still neglects the embodied realities of trauma, especially how teachers and students experience, remember, and heal from disasters. Contemporary models of climate education often prioritize Western epistemologies and technocratic solutions, marginalizing Indigenous, local, and experiential knowledge systems (McGregor, 2009; Whyte, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13415", "words": "9397", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Wong, Catherine ", "title": "Climate Policies and Financing for Conflict and Displacement-Affected Contexts: Closing the Capacity and Education Gaps", "date": "2025", "keywords": "capacities; capacity; capacity development; climate; climate change; conflict; contexts; countries; development; displacement; education; finance; gaps; issues; migration; nations; peace; policy; security; united", "summary": "Greater investments in dedicated climate capacities, climate education, and climate capacity assessments in conflict and displacement-affected countries. In this regard, the following recommendations are made: To understand the need for differentiated climate capacities in developing countries vis-\u00e0-vis conflict and displacement-affected settings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13416", "words": "7962", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "28", "author": "Scherrer, Benjamin; jules, tavis", "title": "Rethinking Climate Change in Education: From Climate Coloniality to Decolonial Educational Ecologies in Comparative and International Education", "date": "2025", "keywords": "change; change education; climate; climate change; climate coloniality; climate education; colonial; coloniality; development; ecologies; education; global; international; issues; jules; knowledge; scherrer", "summary": "When this occurred, climate education or climate change education became a top priority, highlighted by the UN and the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which laid the groundwork for future initiatives during two major global events: Agenda 2030 and the UN Climate Conference in Paris. Rousell and Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (2020) draw attention to how it is \u201cwidely acknowledged that innovative and effective forms of climate change education are needed for children and young people worldwide who will be forced to grapple with the uncertain effects of climate change brought forth by previous generations\u201d (p. 192).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13479", "words": "12007", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Pizmony-Levy, Oren; Wagner , Sarah Alice ", "title": "Between Urgency and Uncertainty: The Challenge of Being a Human and an Educator in the Age of Climate Change", "date": "2025", "keywords": "action; cce; change education; climate change; education; educators; environmental; human; issues; levy; pizmony; research; school; science; spring; students; teachers; teaching", "summary": "Current Issues in Comparative Education 23 Between Urgency and Uncertainty: The Challenge of Being a Human and an Educator in the Age of Climate Change Figure 6 Importance of environmental issues facing NYC (mean) Educators' attitudes toward climate change education We have examined educators' beliefs and attitudes toward climate change. This study uses survey data from a research-practice partnership between Teachers College, Columbia University, and New York City Public Schools to explore educators\u2019 beliefs, attitudes, and practices on climate change and education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13545", "words": "1176", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Pan-Algarra, Sara", "title": "Editorial Introduction: Human Rights in Comparative and International Education", "date": "2025", "keywords": "cice; education; issue; rights", "summary": "How can human rights education be reimagined and recreated to meet the needs of current and future generations? Contrasting Adivasi narratives with a thematic analysis of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization\u2019s (UNESCO) recommendations to advance human rights education, the article reveals a disconnect between top-down policies and the daily realities Adivasi Peoples face.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-13974", "words": "1694", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Pan Algarra, Sara", "title": "Editorial Introduction Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Lessons in Education", "date": "2025", "keywords": "change; cice; climate; development; education; teachers", "summary": "While some explore the historical progress in international agreements on climate change that are relevant to education policy and practice, other authors analyze primary data about the experiences of teachers vis-\u00e0-vis climate change education. Pizmony-Levy and Wagner (2025) identify that the school time devoted to climate change education has increased, but teachers continue to perceive the topic as one relevant to the STEM curriculum.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8135", "words": "7304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Le, Hang M.", "title": "Language, education, and power in refugee camps: A comparison of Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya) and Thai-Myanmar refugee camps", "date": "2021", "keywords": "camps; children; community; education; english; issues; kakuma; karen; language; myanmar; policies; policy; power; refugee; refugee camps; refugee education", "summary": "Recent policy discourse and practice in this area also signals a growing recognition that language is a central issue in refugee education, whether in pre-resettlement, post-resettlement, or repatriation settings (Dryden-Peterson et al., 2018; Chopra & Dryden-Peterson, 2015). In the next section, I will provide a brief context of refugee education and review how language issues have been discussed in the refugee education literature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8136", "words": "7342", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Simon, Sandrine", "title": "Territorial Education through Urban Agriculture: Contributing to Building Sustainable Cities in Times of a Pandemic", "date": "2021", "keywords": "agriculture; cities; city; current; development; economic; education; food; global; issues; learning; lisbon; sustainability; systems; urban", "summary": "From this, four main clusters (boosting agricultural production, stimulating sustainable food distribution, developing food education and valuing waste) emerged. UA as a core ingredient to making cities more sustainable The dimensions of sustainability that we are most interested in here focus on food security and sustainable food systems as key ingredients to transforming the city into a resilient, no-waste and environmentally friendly environment.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8138", "words": "1713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Fasih, Tazeen; Patrinos, Harry A. ; Shafiq, M. Najeeb ", "title": "Economic Crises and Returns to University Education in Middle-Income Countries: Stylized Facts and COVID-19 Projections", "date": "2021", "keywords": "billups; education; qualitative; research; templates", "summary": "They had all spent time reading research studies, writing about potential research they would conduct, and discussing theoreticals, but this was the opportunity to design and conduct their own research. Learning how to navigate qualitative research can be particularly murky.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8139", "words": "6047", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "\u00d6z, Yakup", "title": "Geographies of Participation in Learning Abroad Mobility Among European Youth: A Comparison of Student and Non-student Groups in the EU Member States", "date": "2021", "keywords": "countries; country; european; groups; learning; mobility; non; participation; students; youth", "summary": "In this regard, starting by focusing on student mobility, different mechanisms have been established to improve young people\u2019s mobility across Europe with different exchange programs abroad. International student mobility: the role of social networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8140", "words": "7185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Aung, Thu Ya ; Straubhaar, Rolf ", "title": "A Policy Shift from State to Non-state in Education Aid: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the UK\u2019s Development Policies", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aid; analysis; children; countries; dfid; documents; education; international; policy; schools; state", "summary": "Across the board, unlike previous DfID documents, DfID (2018) used particularly strong language to describe developing country education systems: \u201cprecious resources go to waste\u201d (p. 1) \u201ctragic waste\u2026risks to stability\u2026enormous waste\u201d (p. 3) \u201cvulnerable education system\u201d (p. 3) \u201cstagnant public sector\u201d (p. 4) \u201clearning crisis\u201d (p. 5) McCormick\u2019s analysis of education policy documents in Lao PDR and Cambodia led him to conclude that \u201caccess to formal, primary education is promoted in the service of growth, and private provision to the benefit of the few, at the expense of improving quality in education for the marginalized or even the poor majority\u201d (McCormick, p. 39).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8141", "words": "6625", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Foley, William J. ", "title": "Suggestions for Critical Awareness, Accountability, and Transformation in Human Rights Education", "date": "2021", "keywords": "accountability; education; history; hre; learners; model; power; rights; students; tibbitts; transformation; udhr", "summary": "Does Human Rights education exist. Using Tibbitts\u2019 revised typologies of Human Rights Education, this paper offers suggestions for critical pedagogy for the teaching of, for, and through Human Rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8143", "words": "8332", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Acquah, Alfred ", "title": "Higher Education Finance Between Ghana and the United States", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aid; cost; countries; education; enrollment; finance; funding; ghana; government; institutions; international; students; u.s; world", "summary": "Since then, the government\u2019s aid for supporting higher education now comes in the form of government grants that are often shown in the national budget for developing higher education institutions (tertiary education). In a new proposal for higher education funding in Ghana, performance-based funding was enacted as one strategy to distribute public funds to higher education institutions (Newman & Duwiejua, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8144", "words": "1713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Fornaro, Christopher J.; Sterin, Kimberly; Struloeff, Katrina Lynn", "title": "Qualitative data collection tools: Design, development, and applications by Felice D. Billups", "date": "2021", "keywords": "billups; education; qualitative; research; templates", "summary": "They had all spent time reading research studies, writing about potential research they would conduct, and discussing theoreticals, but this was the opportunity to design and conduct their own research. Learning how to navigate qualitative research can be particularly murky.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8175", "words": "823", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Mantilla-Blanco, Paula ", "title": "Editorial Introduction", "date": "2021", "keywords": "education; issues; post", "summary": "Tarc reflects on the global transition to online education and how the challenges posed by Covid-19 might shape a future return to face-to-face education. The author conducts an analysis of the relationship between educational outcomes and education finance models in 40 OECD countries to identify whether fiscal decentralization is effective in closing the gaps between two different socio-economic communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8178", "words": "8556", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Jules, Tavis D. ", "title": "La Mission Civilisatrice, Le Bourguibism, and La S\u00e9curitocratie: Deciphering Transitological Educational Codings in Post-spaces \u2013 the Case of Tunisia", "date": "2021", "keywords": "codes; codings; cowen; education; french; issues; mission; national; patterns; post; state; system; transitologies; tunisia", "summary": "Independence from France signaled the movement from the pre-modern educational patterns categorized as La Mission Civilisatrice to modern educational codings classified by what is term Bourguibisme. Throughout the struggle for independence, the emergence of modern educational codings during the Tunisian transition can be seen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8179", "words": "6709", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Mount-Cors, Mary Faith ; Gay, Jill; Diop, Rokhaya", "title": "Towards a radical transformation: Promoting gender equality when children start school", "date": "2021", "keywords": "boys; children; education; equality; gender; girls; grade; learning; primary; reading; school; senegal; unesco; usaid; women", "summary": "The authors point to promising strategies and opportunities to make early grade education efforts gender transformative and thus more effective. Towards a radical transformation: Promoting gender equality when children start school MaryFaith Mount-Cors EdIntersect, LLC Jill Gay EdIntersect, LLC; What Works Association Rokhaya Diop Chemonics International; Universit\u00e9 Gaston Berger, St. Louis du S\u00e9n\u00e9gal Two of the current United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim for quality education and gender equality, which are inextricably linked.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8363", "words": "8149", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Gallagher , Matthew ; Bauer, Carrie ", "title": "Refugee Higher Education and Future Reconstruction Efforts: Exploring the Connection through the Innovative Technological Implementation of a University Course in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "access; course; current; education; efforts; issues; knowledge; level; literacy; post; program; reconstruction; refugee; skills; students; university", "summary": "Crea (2016) learned from refugee students enrolled in HE that access to technology helped increase their technical and professional skills. Additionally, refugee HE programs should adopt a structure that supports inclusivity, tolerance, gender equity, teamwork, and critical thinking and problem-solving skills.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8371", "words": "9887", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Kang, Seulgi ", "title": "Should Unified Korea Choose Fiscal Decentralization for Education? Testing the Decentralization Theory on Education Finance with Cross-country Analysis for Korean Unification", "date": "2021", "keywords": "capita; countries; decentralization; deconcentration; devolution; education; education finance; finance; gdp; gini; korea; local; south; unification", "summary": "Education decentralization in Africa: A review of recent policy and practice. Results Descriptive Analysis To understand how education finance models are differentiated by the academic/economic status (GDP per capita and Gini Index), the table is first divided countries into high GDP per capita (Table 1) and low GDP per capita (Table 2); then, 3 Since this analysis is based on strict criteria that a country has to participate in PISA and provide OECD advanced information on its education expenditures, it leaves out most countries from Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America and some countries in East Europe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8373", "words": "8484", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Badami, Hasnain R. ; Fatima, Rubab ", "title": "Praxis for a Post-Information Future: Evaluating the Impact of a Pedagogical Framework Based on Experiential Learning", "date": "2021", "keywords": "class; current; education; experience; framework; instructor; issues; learning; lesson; plastic; process; students; teachers; world", "summary": "Students are prompted to follow the new temporary policy: students are not allowed to take plastic-based trash outside of their classrooms. Students complete short quizzes at various points in the learning process such as after watching a documentary in Explain phase and after the discussion in Engage phase, Student are marked for participation in Engage discussion using a pre-established rubric.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8374", "words": "6968", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Brown, Kara D. ; Shah, Payal P. ; Stevick, E. Doyle ", "title": "Labeling the World: The 3P Framework for Critiquing and Reconstructing Our Categorization Processes", "date": "2021", "keywords": "development; east; education; estonia; global; issues; labeling; labels; post; postcolonial; power; region; south; world", "summary": "An example of the latter is the powerful turn to the label post-colonial, which, worked better [than other labels like non-Western, Emergent, Minority, and Third World]: it lacked the derogations of the former labels, it specified what unified its compass (a former subjugated relation to Western powers), it embodied a historical dimension, and it opened analytic windows onto common features of peoples who had only recently, and to the extent possible, thrown off their European chains. Aside from geographical descriptors, other labels often applied to the region also allude to the core-periphery relationship described in World Systems Theory (Wallerstein, 1974).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8375", "words": "1961", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Tarc, Paul", "title": "Education post-\u2018Covid-19\u2019: Re-visioning the face-to-face classroom", "date": "2021", "keywords": "classroom; education; f2f; face; teaching", "summary": "Re-visioning the face-to-face classroom Paul Tarc University of Western Ontario For better and worse, the Covid-19 crisis will necessarily advance a number of instrumental responses for online education under the global shutdown of face-to-face classrooms. Unfortunately, it will also be employed as \u2018shock doctrine\u2019 (Klein, 2007) to advance a much more aggressive move to online education that would be hardly possible in more normal times, but that is a different story.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8450", "words": "8807", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Thevenot, Yvonne", "title": "Innovation as a Consideration for Being a Social Justice Decolonization Construct Within Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "black; design; education; innovation; justice; knowledge; learning; people; science; social; society; stem; students; teachers; teaching", "summary": "The 19th Century, however, was an important milestone for the education of Black people in the U.S., as many public schools were established to allow for the education of Black students (The History Engine, n.d.). In 1787, Prince Hall, the founder of the Negro Masonic Order, an organization created to advance the social order of Black people, drafted a petition to the Boston state legislature to appeal for equal educational rights of Black students (Aptheker, 1951).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8451", "words": "8597", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Indah, Rosaria", "title": "Freire, dialogic feedback, and power issues: An authoethnography", "date": "2021", "keywords": "dialogue; education; feedback; freire; health; iman; indah; issues; learning; patients; power; research; students; study; teacher", "summary": "This paper draws on autoethnographic experiences of providing dialogic feedback for medical students using Paulo Freire's dialogue concepts. This so-called platonic dialogue may evoke negative emotions in medical students.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8486", "words": "5795", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Desrochers, Monica; Murray, Jessica", "title": "Applying Critical Discourse Analysis in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators", "date": "2021", "keywords": "analysis; cda; discourse; education; language; oppression; power; step; students; teachers; use", "summary": "Murray, J., & Desrochers, M. (2021) Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Volume 23, Issue 2, Special Issue 2021 Applying Critical Discourse Analysis in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators Jessica D. Murray University of Vermont Monica C. Desrochers University of Vermont In this conceptual article, we provide a guide for educators to use Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to: (1) critically examine their teaching and behavioral support practices, (2) guide future interactions with students and families, and (3) teach students to empower themselves through critically analyzing texts, media, and society. This is illustrated in vast research confirming academic and discipline discrepancies between youth of color and White students, as well as the discrepancies for LGBTQIA+ youth and students with disabilities (Schiff, 2018; Mallett, 2016; Welsh & Little, 2018; Taylor et al, 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8488", "words": "2275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Simpson, Peter", "title": "What Can Decolonial Critiques & Critical Pedagogy Teach the Field of Human Rights Education?", "date": "2021", "keywords": "current; education; field; foley; issues; rights", "summary": "It is time: Critical human rights education in an age of counterhegemonic distrust. Suggestions for critical awareness, accountability, and transformation in human rights education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8523", "words": "1626", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Cataldo, Kevin", "title": "I Was Once an Oppressor, But I Found the Strength Within to Free Myself ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "education; oppressor; students", "summary": "Capitalization is used as a means to empower this marginalized group of students. https://https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en Cataldo Current Issues in Comparative Education 176 In urban America, oppressors see students and their cultures, identities, and lived experiences as test scores and opportunities for federal funding rather than as human beings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8535", "words": "1889", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Hassoun, Mariam", "title": "Situating Iraq in Oxford: Reflections on identity, place, and justice", "date": "2021", "keywords": "education; oxford; people; research; university", "summary": "Tuck\u2019s letter calls on us to question our epistemological biases - what types of stories do we share about displaced people? In \u201cSuspending Damage: A Letter to Communities,\u201d Eve Tuck (2009) discusses \u201cdamage- centered research,\u201d which in essence aims to document people\u2019s pain and suffering and identifies the long-term negative impacts of this type of research on our conceptualization of communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8539", "words": "2152", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Wijetunga, Minoli", "title": "Who made the yardstick? An Oppressed critique of the comparative and the international", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cie; comparative; data; education; field", "summary": "Wijetunga, M. (2021) Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Volume 23, Issue 2, Special Issue 2021 Who Made the Yardstick? Kandel, for example, stresses the importance of context, advocating Wijetunga Current Issues in Comparative Education 180 for an inclusive approach.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8541", "words": "2097", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Bora, Anisa; Choi, Grace; Moore, Thomonique; Tang, Rongwei; Zheng, Yiming", "title": "The ARt of Inequality: A Youth Social Justice Exhibition in Augmented Reality", "date": "2021", "keywords": "art; digital; education; issues; museum; students", "summary": "The development of digital technologies also provides new opportunities for digital arts. Upon completing the program, students can exit with the knowledge and skills to further engage in forms of digital art activism moving forward, thus enabling them to continue designing their own interventions and assert previously unseen narratives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8560", "words": "6158", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Diaz, Katia", "title": "COVID-19 and Digital Learning in The Dominican Republic: Implications For Marginalized Communities", "date": "2021", "keywords": "access; country; covid-19; digital; dominican; education; issues; learning; needs; republic; schools; students; system", "summary": "Lack of education access for special needs and low-income students has been a continuous issue. Once again education access is being denied, either intentionally or unintentionally.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8563", "words": "2133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Robinson, Elizabeth; Rhodes, Curt", "title": "Freire\u2019s Time: Unlocking Energy and Options for Out-of-School Youth in Jordan", "date": "2021", "keywords": "education; freire; jordan; learning; nfe; youth", "summary": "Fostering a culture of learning with teachers as cultural workers, and making a path for them to walk alongside students, is a vital solution to the dysfunction of youth education and the social disconnection of these COVID-influenced days. Strengthening youth opportunities: A pilot impact and process study of empowerment-based non-formal education for out-of-school youth in Amman, Jordan.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8566", "words": "8044", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Melo Ferreira, Ana Lu\u00edsa", "title": "O papel da Bibliografia das Publica\u00e7\u00f5es Ind\u00edgenas do Brasil na reafirma\u00e7\u00e3o das identidades intelectuais amer\u00edndias", "date": "2021", "keywords": "academia; acad\u00eamica; ainda; assim; bibliografia; brasil; ci\u00eancia; como; comunica\u00e7\u00e3o; conhecimento; current; das; de uma; deste; dos; education; educa\u00e7\u00e3o; eles; ensino; ferreira; foi; forma; grupos; ind\u00edgenas; isso; issues; mais; mas; meio; melo; munduruku; nos; nossa; n\u00e3o; para; pela; pelo; pessoal; por; povos; povos ind\u00edgenas; produ\u00e7\u00e3o; publica\u00e7\u00f5es; qual; que; ser; seu; seus; sobre; sua; suas; superior; s\u00e3o; tamb\u00e9m; uma; universidade", "summary": "Escolhemos este tema a partir do entendimento de que a produ\u00e7\u00e3o que aborde o protagonismo ind\u00edgena na academia ainda \u00e9 limitada e n\u00e3o d\u00e1 o devido Na cosmovis\u00e3o dos povos origin\u00e1rios, valores como como a prote\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 natureza, a valoriza\u00e7\u00e3o das suas hist\u00f3rias, de suas viv\u00eancias e de suas vidas em comunidade atuam como baluarte de sua pr\u00f3pria exist\u00eancia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8570", "words": "7904", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Peeples, Elena", "title": "People, Policy, and Praxis: Freirean Pedagogy and Local-Level Policy Implementation", "date": "2021", "keywords": "dialectic; education; exam; freire; hse; juntos; language; policy; praxis; program; relationships; spanish; students; test; testing", "summary": "Concerns around rigor, technology, and cost were framed as problems of operational capacity for state education or workforce agencies, local test centers, and local test prep programs as often as they were described as personal challenges for students. Poverty, reframed here as a lack of economic stability, is a social problem with a technocratic solution wherein local test centers and test prep programs are coordinated through state policy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8571", "words": "11152", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Bartlett, Tara; Schugurensky, Daniel ", "title": "Reinventing Freire in the 21st century: : Citizenship education, student voice and school participatory budgeting", "date": "2021", "keywords": "budgeting; citizenship; community; democracy; education; engagement; freire; issues; learning; participation; participatory; process; project; research; school; school pb; schugurensky; students; university; youth", "summary": "Several cities in Brazil (especially S\u00e3o Paulo, Porto Alegre, and Recife), have implemented School PB processes in over 200 schools (Best et al., 2011). Beyond Brazil, School PB processes are taking place in other Latin American countries like Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, and Chile (Cabannes, 2006; Taft & Ramirez, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8572", "words": "8002", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Strong, Krystal; Nafziger, R. Nanre", "title": "Education for Black Liberation: Freire and Past/Present Pan-Africanist Experiments", "date": "2021", "keywords": "african; cabral; education; freire; global; issues; liberation; movements; nyerere; organizers; pan; social; solidarity; strong; struggle", "summary": "These themes offer valuable lessons that we can learn in applying Freirean concepts to contemporary Pan-African movements. Though much of the literature on Freire in Africa focuses on his impact on Africa (Godonoo, 1998; Assi\u00e9-Lumumba et al., 2019), we argue that a closer examination of Freire\u2019s influence on African popular education reveals that he often borrowed heavily from African revolutionary leaders, whose rich ideas were often unacknowledged or only narrowly theorized in his writings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8577", "words": "6443", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Cortina, Regina; Winter, Marcella", "title": "Paulo Freire\u2019s Pedagogy of Liberation", "date": "2021", "keywords": "dussel; education; freire; latin; liberation; paulo; pedagogy; process; teachers; teaching; world", "summary": "Becoming conscious about an issue or apprehending the reality is not enough to develop a critical stance in which individuals 1 The documentary Paulo Freire, um homem do mundo (Paulo Freire, A Man of the World), directed by Cristiano Burlan (2020), narrates Freire\u2019s experiences in Angicos, recounting the stories told by the main characters in the endeavor, teachers and students who participated in the experiment. Sharing her fieldwork notes, Tarlau (2019) quotes one of MST's national leaders, who explained how Freire influenced their quest for social justice: Paulo Freire taught us that we are the subjects of the process of social change, not objects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8580", "words": "8941", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Penalva Vieira da Silva, Renata; Marcondes Machado, Adriana ", "title": "Intersections between education and health reforms in Brazil: when the \"target population\" is an active builder of the public policy", "date": "2021", "keywords": "actions; brazil; brazilian; education; freire; health; issues; machado; mental; paim; participation; paulo; penalva; population; public; reforms; school; service; social; system; workers", "summary": "One of these collective health \u201cbuilders\u201d, Joaquim Alves Cardoso de Mello (Zancan & Matilda, 2015), for instance, argued in 1986 that health education should not be focused on teaching the population not to get ill, as this position would entail that it is their individual responsibility for getting sick. So, for Cardoso de Melo, Health education would better fit Brazil\u2019s reality if it focused on issues such as agrochemicals, pollution, and human rights claims.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8773", "words": "8639", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Schuelka, Matthew; Kezang Sherab", "title": "Educational Values in Complex Systems: An Introduction to the Educational Values Evaluation and Design Framework and a Case Study of Inclusivity in Bhutan ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bhutan; bhutanese; education; eved; framework; happiness; inclusion; national; school; schooling; schuelka; students; system; utility; values", "summary": "Keywords: Inclusion, Education, Bhutan, Complex Systems, Values, Utility Introduction Throughout the history of comparative education, there has been an attempt to compare various elements of education systems \u2013 e.g., curriculum, pedagogy, policies, national character \u2013 often in reference to normative Global North models of education (see Steiner- Khamsi, 2004). The march towards the scientization and quantification of education through comparison has attempted to analyze education systems according to a disaggregation and regression of various widgets, inputs, and outputs (Sobe, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8776", "words": "2193", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Collins, Madison", "title": "Shadow Education in Africa: Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications by Mark Bray ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "bray; data; education; shadow", "summary": "Therefore, after presenting the landscape of African shadow education, Bray provides policy recommendations to prevent the recurrence of many of the harmful effects of private tutoring seen in other parts of the world. Researchers and practitioners can gain a foundational awareness from this book regarding the implications of global education development standards and the progression of shadow education in practice in Africa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8778", "words": "7970", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Bonzanini Bernardi, Ana Julia; Liegi Vieira Costa, Andressa; Azambuja de Morais, Jennifer ", "title": "What is the Political Culture for Young Brazilians: The process of political socialization through social networks", "date": "2022", "keywords": "agents; brazil; culture; democracy; internet; issues; mass; media; new; people; politics; social; socialization; young; youth", "summary": "Results confirm that the political culture of the young remains apathetic, but those socialized by new agents seem to be closer to developing an assertive type of political culture. Keywords: Brazil, youth, political culture, political socialization, social networks Introduction The apathy for political affairs among young people is not recent in the Brazilian scenario.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8779", "words": "1402", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Hang B.", "title": "Shadow Education in Myanmar: Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications", "date": "2022", "keywords": "education; myanmar; shadow; tutoring", "summary": "While there has been increasing research on private tutoring in SEA countries such as Cambodia, Singapore, and Vietnam, I wonder if this practice is also prevalent in Myanmar. Having written extensively on private tutoring, the book\u2019s co-authors--Mark Bray, Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze, and Ora Kwo--provided an in-depth analysis of the private tutoring situation in Myanmar.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8785", "words": "6960", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Fu, Yiwei; Hu, Die; Liu, Xitao", "title": "International Doctoral Students Negotiating Support from Interpersonal Relationships and Institutional Resources During COVID-19", "date": "2022", "keywords": "chinese; covid-19; current; education; institutions; issues; pandemic; participants; relationships; research; students; study; support; university", "summary": "Keywords: social support, international doctoral students, COVID-19, institutional response and support, American higher education institutions Introduction Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the higher education system has been hit particularly hard and Chinese international students are among a few student groups that have been greatly affected. Fu et al., 2022 Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE), Volume 24, Issue 1, Winter 2022 International Doctoral Students Negotiating Support from Interpersonal Relationships and Institutional Resources during COVID-19 Yiwei Fu New York University, USA Die Hu Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Xitao Liu Claremont Graduate University, USA The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected international students around the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8809", "words": "1791", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Winter, Marcella", "title": "Editorial Introduction: When the Oppressed Rise: Education as a Tool for Decolonization", "date": "2021", "keywords": "education; freire; issues; paulo; pedagogy; students", "summary": "In the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paulo Freire, this Special Issue of Current Issues in Comparative Education pays homage to his legacy. \u2014Paulo Freire Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was born in Recife, Brazil, on September 19, 1921.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8844", "words": "8254", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Hu, Luanjiao", "title": "Opportunities and Challenges: An Examination of Educational Landscape for People with Visual Impairment in China", "date": "2022", "keywords": "blind; china; disabilities; disability; education; impairment; mainstream; number; people; pwd; pwvi; schools; students", "summary": "The Compulsory Education Law (1986) mandates that all children are entitled to nine years of free public education, including six years of primary school education and three years of secondary school education. In regards to PWVI, the lack of awareness also prevents some parents from sending their children with VI (low vision) to special education schools for the fear of being labeled as having a disability (Xu & Ji, 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8850", "words": "10010", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Saini, Ruchi", "title": "Using \"Positioning\" Theory to analyze a female school teacher\u2019s experiences with care-work during COVID-19 in India: Towards Decolonizing Feminist Research", "date": "2022", "keywords": "care; care work; disha; education; extract; feminist; husband; mother; narrative; pandemic; positioning; research; school; study; women; work", "summary": "An understanding of how the teacher positions herself, as well as those around her, will not only contribute to limited existing knowledge about the impact of the pandemic on care work responsibilities of female teachers but also draw attention to the micro-details of the identities that the participant claims throughout the narratives (Bucholtz & Hall, 2005), instead of a singular, monolithic understanding of it. In the specific context of female school teachers, studies in the past have drawn attention to the negative impact of care work responsibilities at home on teachers\u2019 professional lives (Erdamar & Demirel, 2014; Noor & Zainuddin, 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8853", "words": "8635", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Tahir, Izza", "title": "Decolonizing Madrassa Reform in Pakistan", "date": "2022", "keywords": "british; colonial; curriculum; education; government; india; issues; madrassa; madrassa reform; pakistan; reform; riaz; sector; subjects; system", "summary": "Her research interests include education reform, language policy and planning, early grade literacy instruction, and the intersection of policy and teacher classroom practice. In R. M. Hathaway (Ed.), Education reform in Pakistan: Building for the future.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8861", "words": "1546", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Harris, Sheena", "title": "Becoming Rwandan: Education, reconciliation, and the making of a post-genocide citizen", "date": "2022", "keywords": "education; post; russell; rwandan", "summary": "Becoming Rwandan: Education, reconciliation, and the making of a post-genocide citizen will be of interest to scholars in the areas of peace education, post-conflict history education, citizenship and civic education, human rights education, education in emergencies, sociology, and African studies, as well as agencies and curriculum developers involved in designing educational programs and curriculum to foster peace and reconciliation. Her research not only builds upon that of other scholars who have conducted empirical studies on post-conflict history education in Rwanda (e.g., Bentrovato, 2016; King, 2014) by providing a deeper understanding of how Rwandan teachers and students disrupt national educational goals for peace but enhances our knowledge of how peacebuilding and nation-building efforts are limited at the national level.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-8863", "words": "10827", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "jules, tavis, d.; Arnold, Richard ; Donnelley-Power, Caitlin; Jacobs, Holly; Rainey, Madeline ", "title": "Re/diss/assembling \u201cEducational Imaginaries\u201d through Regionalism \u2013 The Construction of the Caribbean Education Policy Space", "date": "2022", "keywords": "caribbean; caricom; cpe; development; documents; economy; educational; imaginaries; imaginary; issues; jessop; jules; policy; region; selectivity; space; sum", "summary": "Findings and Discussion This discussion will apply a CPE approach to selected CARICOM policy documents from 1993 to the present. This contextualization facilitates a reading of how neoliberal forces impact regional education imaginaries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9212", "words": "10142", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Ely, Frank; Mitchell, Fallon; Hirsch, Katherine; Diana, Michael; Munroe-Chandler, Krista; van Wyk, Paula; McGowan, Cheri", "title": "Resilience and Despair: Exploring the Educational Experiences of Graduate Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic to Guide Strategies for Action", "date": "2022", "keywords": "access; degree; department; education; et al; graduate; graduate students; health; learning; online; pandemic; participants; research; restrictions; students; university", "summary": "Recommendations for assisting graduate students during these times include: (1) prioritizing graduate student access to workspace within the constraints of current capacity limits in university buildings, and (2) collaborating with graduate students to develop effective mental health strategies with a high potential for uptake. A full professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Windsor, her research interests include imagery use by performers, youth sport development, and exercise and mental health in university students.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9323", "words": "9597", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Simon, Sandrine; Dantas, Lucimar", "title": "Covid and Higher Education: Crossed Perspectives in the Construction of Knowledge and the Rise of Citizen Science. Theoretical reflections and practical approach in the 11th Encounter of CeiED researchers", "date": "2022", "keywords": "approaches; citizen; citizen science; design; education; issues; knowledge; learning; participatory; people; processes; research; science; students; thinking", "summary": "Environmental education through citizen science and participatory action research. The CeiED aims to explore further how our research could contribute to CS and how we could use CS tools that already exist.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9393", "words": "1945", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Cataldo, Kevin", "title": "Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Post-COVID-19 ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "billings; ladson; students; teacher", "summary": "Ladson-Billings (1995a, 1995b, 2001) defines CRP as a form of teaching where teachers use a student's culture to guide student learning. We live in a nation where classroom teachers often allow their own biases, assumptions, and stereotypes to lead to deficit perspectives of diverse students; I am guilty of this myself.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9395", "words": "11126", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Lam, Man Ho Adrian", "title": "Shifting from the Hidden Shadow to the Bright Sunshine under the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for the Education New Normal from Hong Kong\u2019s Learning System", "date": "2022", "keywords": "covid-19; curriculum; development; education; future; hong; hong kong; issues; kong; learning; online; pandemic; school; students; teachers; teaching; time", "summary": "According to Law et al. (2021), parent-child communication and relationships are reported to be the single most important supportive and protective factor in Hong Kong students\u2019 well-being at home and in school. Coronavirus: Hong Kong students adapt to online learning amid class suspension over pandemic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9399", "words": "8831", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Brooks DeCosta, Dawn; Goyens Ward, Danica ; Cornell, Michael", "title": "Reimagining Education: Restore, Rebuild, Curate, Uplift, and Celebrate", "date": "2022", "keywords": "approach; community; education; experiences; families; instruction; issues; learning; pandemic; practices; research; school; self; staff; students; support; teachers; trauma; ways", "summary": "Reimagining Partnerships: Engaging Stakeholders as Design Partners Our school has many partnerships that support student learning and development. During this time of COVID and even pre-pandemic, partnerships have played an important role in supporting student learning.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9405", "words": "1853", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Harrienger, Samantha", "title": "Innovation in Times of Crisis: Using the COVID-19 Pandemic to Reevaluate Curricula", "date": "2022", "keywords": "curriculum; education; school; students; teachers", "summary": "Additionally, some schools began virtual instruction immediately, while others, like my own, used paper packets to enhance student learning (Darling-Hammond et al., 2020). It was an additional source of frustration for many families as they had to navigate unfamiliar technology, curriculum, assessments, and their personal lives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9414", "words": "2012", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Nordmeyer, Jon; Bettney, Esther", "title": "Equity for Multilingual Learners: A Global Network Response to the Pandemic", "date": "2022", "keywords": "community; global; learning; schools; wida", "summary": "Special issue editors\u2019 introduction: Activity theory and school innovation. At the intersection of innovation and exhaustion, educators worldwide have faced an entirely new reality: how to continue serving diverse school communities while responding to the pandemic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9415", "words": "9398", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Gao, Junjian; Kenyon, Brittany; Choi, Yangwahn; Echavarria, Isaely; Jensen Leichter, Hope; Qiu, Ling", "title": "Blurred Boundaries: An Examination of Learning and Working in the Home During the Covid-19 Pandemic", "date": "2022", "keywords": "boundaries; children; covid-19; education; families; family; home; learning; pandemic; parents; research; roles; school; space; time; work", "summary": "These reimaginings of family space were not always welcome, as described by Laura, whose family transformed their living room into a universal non-family activity center. Therefore, these shifts in the spatial and temporal organization of the home point to a reconfiguration of family roles that have further blurred the boundaries between technology and the work-family context (Schieman & Badawy, 2020; Leichter, 1979).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9474", "words": "6829", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Pineda Munguia, Judith", "title": "Digital Learning Measures in Honduras During the COVID-19 Pandemic", "date": "2022", "keywords": "access; covid-19; de honduras; digital; educaci\u00f3n; education; gobierno; honduras; issues; learning; pandemic; rep\u00fablica; school; secretar\u00eda; students; teacher", "summary": "Con distintas estrategias la Secretar\u00eda de Educaci\u00f3n ha fortalecido la ense\u00f1anza no presencial. Gobierno de la Rep\u00fablica de Honduras.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9495", "words": "5915", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Quezada-Morales , Romina", "title": "Chile's Digital Learning Strategy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connecting Policy with Social Realities?", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aprendo; chile; communication; digital; education; issues; learning; l\u00ednea; mineduc; pandemic; platform; school; students; teachers", "summary": "The state supported public schools, which were administered by the state, and subsidized schools, privately managed but incorporated the voucher system; private schools also existed. School principals in the interviewees\u2019 public and private schools organized training workshops for their teachers, although private schools responded faster than public schools.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9496", "words": "5945", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Quezada-Morales , Romina", "title": "Advancing Digital Learning in a Traditional System: Uruguay During the COVID-19 Pandemic", "date": "2022", "keywords": "casa; ceibal; communication; digital; educaci\u00f3n; education; issues; learning; nacional; plan; school; students; teachers; uruguay", "summary": "The author would like to thank the school directors and Plan Ceibal leader who kindly accepted to participate in this project, and for their additional feedback and material. The most widely spread one is Plan Ceibal.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9497", "words": "5770", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Quezada-Morales , Romina", "title": "The Provision of Learning in Mexico During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Defining the Digital Divide ", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aprende; casa; communication; digital; education; february; learning; mexico; national; pandemic; school; sep; teachers", "summary": "Quezada Morales Current Issues in Comparative Education 210 Figure 2 Communication between basic education teachers and their students during the first period of Aprende en Casa3 Defining the digital divide in Mexican education The 2019-2023 Educational Digital Agenda (SEP, 2020) took note of previous programs and needs to come up with five working lines: teacher training and updating; digital literacy, inclusion, and citizenship; production, promotion, access and social use of digital learning resources; better connectivity and infrastructure of ICTs together with LTKs (Learning Quezada Morales Current Issues in Comparative Education 206 and Knowledge Technologies) and communication; and research, innovation and creativity in digital education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9513", "words": "4917", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Stinson, Hannah", "title": "Impacts of Remote Learning Measures on Educational Access and Quality in Ecuador", "date": "2022", "keywords": "access; communication; digital; ecuador; education; learning; mineduc; pandemic; school; students; teachers", "summary": "A digital platform specific to high school students called AVA was offered resourced virtual classrooms for Math, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Social Studies, Language, and Literature (MINEDUC, 2020 a). In September 2021, 78% of public school students nationwide had Stinson Current Issues in Comparative Education 168 access to internet connectivity, but only 1 out of 8 had access to a device for personal use (personal communication, August 25, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9590", "words": "5100", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Diaz, Katia", "title": "Uncovering Educational Inequalities: COVID-19 Digital Learning Strategies in the Dominican Republic", "date": "2022", "keywords": "access; communication; covid-19; digital; dominican; education; government; issues; learning; republic; rep\u00fablica; school; students", "summary": "As a result, there are \u201cinsufficient economic resources to cover basic necessities like education\u201d (Vicepresidencia de la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana et al., 2019, p. 8). https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/dominican- republic/2021-05-20/unexcused-absence Vicepresidencia de la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9712", "words": "6339", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Winter, Marcella", "title": "Brazilian Digital Learning Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Impact on Socio-Educational Gaps: An Exploratory Study on Manaus, Rio de Janeiro, and S\u00e3o Paulo", "date": "2022", "keywords": "brazil; brazilian; children; classes; digital; education; families; issues; learning; pandemic; schools; strategies; students; teachers", "summary": "While there was a pressing need to alleviate a crisis scenario and attenuate the lack of coordination between states and municipalities, the Ministry of Education failed to establish recommendations to guide basic education schools and higher education institutions during these unprecedented times. Whereas basic education is compulsory and provided free of charge at public schools, private institutions can also offer schooling according to the guidelines established by the Constitution and participate at all educational levels with government approval (OECD, 2015, p. 14).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9943", "words": "1854", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Winter, Marcella", "title": "Teaching and Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities Amidst Educational Inequalities", "date": "2022", "keywords": "cice; covid-19; education; issues; learning; pandemic", "summary": "Lastly, Judith Pineda Munguia examines accessibility and quality of education for students of various socioeconomic statuses during the pandemic and possible concerns for a society emerging from limited access to quality education in Honduras. Considering the Dominican Republic, Katia Diaz argues that although the country\u2019s education reforms have underpinned technology and online learning to improve quality education, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the strategies achieved little success.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "cice-9969", "words": "10314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Wawire, Brenda; Barnes-Story , Adrienne; Kiru, Elisheba ; Kim, Sungkyum ", "title": "Primary school learning in sub-Saharan Africa during COVID-19: a scoping review of responses and recovery initiatives induced during school closures", "date": "2023", "keywords": "africa; children; closures; countries; covid-19; development; education; et al; grade; instruction; learners; learning; literacy; loss; primary; radio; reading; review; school; scoping; skills; ssa", "summary": "Current Issues in Comparative Education 23(2), 25-50. https://https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en Wawire et al., Primary school learning in sub-Saharan Africa during COVID-19: a scoping review of responses and recovery initiatives induced during school closures The early years of education represent a critical period during which children acquire a range of core competencies correlated with reading comprehension, literacy achievements, and academic outcomes (Shanahan & Lonigan, 2010). Inductive analysis consisted of identifying common themes from the data, reviewing data for patterns of themes, and identifying key themes related to critical aspects of responses, practices, and interventions used to mitigate early grade learning loss.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]