1st Edition
Global Perspectives on Education Research
Introduction
[Lori Diane Hill and Felice J. Levine]
Part I: Global Perspectives on Education Policy
1. Literacy and Language Diversity: Challenges for Education Research and Practice in the 21st Century
[Ingrid Gogolin]
2. Framing Global Education in the United States: Policy Perspectives
[Laura C. Engel and Megan M. Siczek]
3. The Education of Refugee Children: Human Rights Enactment and Educational Policy Discourses in Italy and the UK
[Valentina Migliarini]
4. Differentiation in Middle-Class Identities, Values and Responses when Integrating to Predominantly Working-Class and Multi-Ethnic School of Choice
[Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir]
Part II: Teaching and Learning
5. Education as a Community Project: Understanding Place-based Learning
[Wenche Ronning, Bronwen J. Cohen and Jennifer Wood Adams]
6. "The Children Come and Go" How Educating Military-Connected Students Impacts the Work of School Teachers, Counselors and Administrators
[Johanna K. Garner, Pamela Arnold-Puchalski, and John A. Nunnery]
Part III: School Context Links to Student Outcomes
7. Social Inequality in Attitudes and Behavior: The Implications of the Flemish Tracking System for Equity
[Jannick Demanet, Laura Van den Broeck, and Mieke Van Houtte]
8. A Transnational Analysis of Students' Interests in Science and Science Related Research Careers
[George L. Wimberly]
Part IV: Assessment and Measurement
9. Exploring Possible Effects of Differential Item Functioning on Reading Achievement Across Language Subgroups: A South African Perspective
[Surrette van Staden]
10. The Conceptualization and Measurement of Student Engagement in Science: A Cross- Cultural Examination from Finland and the United States
[Justina Spicer, Barbara Schneider, Katariina Salmela-Aro, and Julia Moeller]
List of Contributors
Index
Biography
Lori Diane Hill is Associate Executive Director for Programs and Policy and a Research Scientist at the American Educational Research Association.
Felice J. Levine is President of WERA and Executive Director of the American Educational Research Association.
