International & Comparative Education Books

New and Published Books

1. History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia

   Divided Memories

   Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel C. Sneider

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Exceptionality in East Asia

   Explorations in the Actiotope Model of Giftedness

   Edited by Shane N. Phillipson, Heidrun Stoeger, Albert Ziegler

   The continual successes of students from East-Asia are confirmed in a variety of international tests of academic achievement and yet, despite this attainment, many scholars have realised that a substantial proportion of these students are also underachieving. Using the actiotope model of...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Comparative Perspectives on International School Leadership

   Policy, Preparation, and Practice

   By Cathryn Magno

   Through a multi-country study, Comparative Perspectives on International School Leadership examines the current global spread of educational leadership, occurring rapidly and widely. Exploring five international case studies of leadership policy, preparation, and practice under the framework of...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. Understanding the Te Whariki Approach

   Early years education in practice

   By Wendy Lee, Margaret Carr, Brenda Soutar, Linda Mitchell

   Series: Understanding the… Approach

   Understanding the Te Whariki Approach is a much–needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Te Whariki approach, introducing the reader to an innovative bicultural curriculum developed for early childhood services in New Zealand. It will...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Education for Civic and Political Participation

   A Critical Approach

   Edited by Reinhold Hedtke, Tatiana Zimenkova

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

   Edited by Robert B. Stevenson, Michael Brody, Justin Dillon, Arjen E.J. Wals

   The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment,...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
7. Education Reform and Education Policy in East Asia

   By Ka-ho Mok

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   This book assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Inhabiting the Borders

   Foreign Language Faculty in American Colleges and Universities

   By Robin Matross Helms

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South

   Challenges for policy, practice and research

   Edited by Leon Tikly, Angeline M. Barrett

   Series: Education, Poverty and International Development

   How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of education, particularly for the most...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. World Yearbook of Education 2013

    Educators, Professionalism and Politics: Global Transitions, National Spaces and Professional Projects

    Edited by Terri Seddon, John Levin

    Series: World Yearbook of Education

    Educators, professionalism and politics offers ways of understanding how and with what consequences national systems of education and the work of education professionals are being reregulated in the context of contemporary global transitions. Globalization does not just create transnational...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge