Reconceptualising Education Support Services in South Africa

Since inclusive education was introduced in South Africa in 2001, its success has depended on robust support services for both learners and teachers facing barriers. This book examines support systems at multiple levels—school-based teams, district-based teams, and special/full-service schools—highlighting their current fragmented implementation across the country.

Will Schooling Ever Change?

This insightful meta‑narrative examines the global “natural experiment” of COVID‑19–induced distance education and explores its effects— or lack thereof—on school culture and traditional educational norms. Despite the massive shift to online teaching precipitated by the pandemic, the authors argue that core roles, relationships, and hierarchies between students and teachers in sch…

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Education for Children with Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

This book examines the educational experiences of children with disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It highlights barriers to access, inclusion challenges, and the efforts of schools, families, and policymakers to support inclusive education in an urban African context.

Global Agendas and Education Reforms A Comparative Study

This open-access volume critically examines how global education agendas—such as digitalization, innovation and entrepreneurship, education in emergencies, globalization/internationalization, diversity, and sustainability—are reshaping national education reforms across different regions. By analyzing case studies from Algeria, Pakistan, Ukraine, Canada, and beyond, it highlights the growing…

The Political Economy of Education in Central Asia

This book analyzes how politics and economics influence education systems in Central Asia, highlighting reforms, international influence, and local challenges in countries like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Multilevel Pedagogical Leadership in Higher Education

This open-access volume provides a solid theoretical foundation and empirical insight into the pedagogical dimensions of leadership in higher education. Framed by Non-Affirmative Theory (NAT), the book explores how educational leadership operates simultaneously across multiple levels—supranational/national policy, organizational structures, and interpretive interactional practices within clas…

Radical Solutions and Open Science

This open-access book explores how Open Science practices can transform higher education, especially in response to global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It promotes a shift toward openness, collaboration, and transparency in research, education, and innovation. The contributors examine how open data, open access publishing, and citizen science can enhance the quality, relevance, and…

Palgrave Studies in Race, Inequality and Social Justice in Education

This series examines how race, inequality, and social justice intersect within educational systems around the world. It highlights critical perspectives on power, privilege, and marginalization, exploring how education can both challenge and reproduce social injustices.

Self-directed in higher education multimodal learning

This book explores how students in higher education can take charge of their own learning using multiple modes—such as text, video, and digital tools. It highlights strategies that promote self-directed learning and examines how multimodal approaches enhance student engagement, autonomy, and academic success

Vocational Education and Training in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book offers an in-depth analysis of Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring their current structures, challenges, and development potentials. It brings together case studies and research from various countries in the region, focusing on how VET can contribute to economic growth, employment, and poverty reduction. The volume highlights the diversity …

Plurinationality and epistemic justice

This book explores the challenges of implementing intercultural education in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It examines how plurinationality and epistemic justice are addressed in schools, highlighting tensions between Indigenous knowledge systems and formal education practices. The book calls for more inclusive, culturally respectful educational approaches.

Handbook of Educational Reform Through Blended Learning

This handbook explores how blended learning is used as a strategy for educational reform. It presents global case studies and research showing how combining online and face-to-face learning can improve teaching effectiveness, student engagement, and educational access.

Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education

The book explores how universities around the world engage in mergers and alliances to improve efficiency, quality, and competitiveness. It presents international case studies and analyzes the policy, management, and strategic outcomes of institutional collaboration in higher education

Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers

This edited volume explores the learning trajectories and identities of non-traditional adult learners across varied educational settings, emphasizing both continuity and discontinuity in their learning careers. Based on European and international case studies, the book examines how social inequalities—including class, gender, ethnicity, age, and disability—both enable and constrain adults …

Quality Education

This open‑access volume, edited by Muchativugwa L. Hove and Martha Matashu, explores the complex interplay between education, social justice, gendered violence, and human rights within South African schools and universities. Drawing on rich and diverse classroom-based scholarship, the contributors examine how the “economies of education” and social justice imperatives shape the live…

Global Citizenship Education

The book explores how global citizenship education (GCE) prepares students to engage with global issues like human rights, sustainability, and diversity. It examines both theory and practice, highlighting how GCE can empower learners to think critically and act responsibly in a globalized world.

Development, Education and Learning in Sri Lanka an International Research Jo…

This book presents a rich, longitudinal narrative spanning over 50 years of research into Sri Lanka’s education system. It highlights the nation’s early strengths in literacy and education—once viewed internationally as a development benchmark—and examines how these gains evolved amid political, economic, and social upheavals. Through collaborations with local researchers, educators, …

Teaching and Learning with Research Cognitive Theory

This open‑access volume by Noora J. Al‑Thani and Zubair Ahmad introduces Research Cognitive Theory (RCT) as a transformative approach across all educational levels. It emphasizes inquiry‑driven pedagogy to foster curiosity, creativity, innovation, and problem‑solving skills in students, while also supporting professional growth in teachers

Coherence in European Teacher Education

This open-access volume compiles research on coherence in teacher education from a transnational European perspective. Through theoretical-conceptual, empirical, and instructional lenses, the contributions investigate structural, curricular, conceptual, and personnel dimensions of coherence in teacher education

Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms

The book explores how deeper learning and 21st-century education reforms are implemented in schools. It highlights strategies that promote critical thinking, collaboration, and real-world problem-solving, and discusses the challenges and changes needed to support innovative, student-centered learning

Social Inclusion and Higher Education

This open‑access volume, edited by Tehmina N. Basit and Sally Tomlinson, examines the experiences of students from non‑traditional backgrounds—including working-class, ethnic minority, mature students, and those with disabilities—once they enter higher education institutions across the UK, USA, and Australia. While much research has focused on access to university, this book fills…

Impacts of Study Abroad on Higher Education Development

This book explores how study abroad programs influence the development of higher education systems. It examines the academic, institutional, and policy-level impacts of international student mobility

Schooling For Social Justice, Equity and Inclusion

This open-access volume critically examines the roles of social justice, equity, and inclusion in K–12 schooling, questioning the common assumption that schools can straightforwardly “solve” societal inequalities.

The Educational Turn

This open-access volume explores how educational researchers are rethinking the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education, especially post-COVID. It highlights innovations in pedagogy, assessment, leadership, and cultural transformation, and presents case examples of practice-driven research shaping the future of teaching and learning

Audacious Education Purposes

This book examines how eight countries—Brazil, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal, and Russia—have redefined the goals of their education systems to respond to 21st-century challenges. It investigates how governments develop “audacious” education purposes aimed at promoting inclusion, sustainability, democratic participation, and economic adaptability.

Education Policies in the 21st Century

This open-access volume examines education policy agendas of the 21st century through comparative case studies. It highlights how historical, political, economic, and globalisation factors shape national education policies and explores emerging international trends and future directions

Living Well in a World Worth Living in for All

An open-access volume presenting diverse narratives—from asylum-seeking youth, Aboriginal communities, climate activists, to international students—illustrating how different groups envision and enact a world worth living in. It invites reflection on education's role in fostering transformed selves and equitable, sustainable futures

The Governing- Evaluation- Knowledge Nexus

This open-access work examines how governance, evaluation, and knowledge intersect in Swedish higher education. Based on empirical studies, it reveals how quality assurance reforms, professional “qualocrats,” and European policy influence university practices and portray knowledge as a central tool of governance

The Importance of Sociology of Education for a Sustainable Future

The Special Issue of the journal Sustainability—The importance of Sociology of Education for a sustainable future, aims to offer a contribution to the deepening of the relationship between the Sociology of Education and sustainability. There are seven published papers that, to a greater or lesser degree, problematize this relationship. This editorial presents this Special Issue, the publishe…

Education and Climate Change

This open-access volume examines how universities can lead climate change education through partnerships with schools and communities. It reviews gaps in current efforts and presents case studies—from the Middle East to Guatemala, Haiti to Pakistan—demonstrating a five‑step process for designing context-specific curricula that foster deep learning and social action

The Lives and Work of 12 Further Education Based Teacher Educators in England

Inspired by Dutch teacher-educators Peter Lorist and Anja Swennen, this compact volume (88 pages) presents firsthand narratives from 12 further education (FE)–based teacher educators working in England. Editors Roy Fisher and David Powell trace their journeys—from becoming classroom teachers to assuming roles as teacher-educators—while analyzing shared experiences and professional identit…

The End-Purpose of Teaching Social Sciences and the Curricular Inclusion of…

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The State, Business and Education

The series reflects the mission of the global Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training (NORRAG) to produce, disseminate and broker critical knowledge on topical issues that emerge in education and development. Through its programs, knowledge production and dissemination, NORRAG contributes to enhancing the conditions for participatory, informed, and evi…

The Curriculum of Everything Understanding education and curriculum

explores the evolving nature of education and curriculum in the context of technological advancements, globalization, and societal shifts. Pacheco, a leading scholar in curriculum studies, examines the interplay between knowledge, power, and technology, emphasizing the transformative impact of digitalization and artificial intelligence on subjectivity and learning

Teachers and Teaching in Teacher Education

A decade has passed since Goodwin and colleagues asked who teacher educators are and what they need to know and be able to do [1]. During that time, multiple answers were provided concerning teacher educators’ roles such as second-order teachers, researchers, curriculum developers, and coaches [2]. The answers continue to multiply and change in response to global policies and local contex…

South Korean Migrants in China

This chapter frames the central questions and key concepts that this book aims to examine. First and foremost, migrant education is regarded as a lens through which to assess South Korean migrants’ socio-political positionality in China. I adopt ‘in-between’ as an analytical framework to elaborate on the subjective and structural aspects of this positionality. Furthermore, ‘educati…

Teacher Education in the Nordic Region Challenges and Opportunities

This book explores teacher education systems across the Nordic region, highlighting their strengths, challenges, and international relevance. It presents case studies from various Nordic countries and examines how these systems prepare teachers to meet modern educational demands.

POWER TO TEACH Learning through Practice

: Learning Through Practice by Wendy Robinson highlights the importance of real teaching experience in developing effective and reflective educators. It argues that teaching is not just about content delivery but also about building professional identity and understanding the social context of learning. The book is a valuable resource for education students and teacher trainers.

Round and Round: The Journey of the School Bus

The proper education of any people includes sympathetic touch between teacher and pupil; knowledge on the part of the teacher, not simply of the individual taught, but of his surroundings and background, and the history of his class and group; such contact between pupils, and between teacher and pupil, on the basis of perfect social equality, as will increase this sympathy and knowledge; f…

Audacious Education Purposes

This open-access volume presents a comparative analysis of eight national education reforms—in Brazil, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal, and Russia—that aimed to equip students with the diverse skills needed to succeed in a rapidly changing world. It explores how governments redefine the purposes of education systems, identifying five guiding perspectives—cultural, psycholog…

Power and Possibility Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex World

This open-access edited volume critically explores how power and possibility intersect within adult education across diverse, complex social landscapes. The collection presents theoretical, historical, and practical perspectives, examining how power operates in educational policy, programs, and practices. It highlights shifts in policy drivers, measurement regimes (e.g., PIAAC outcomes), and ex…

Critical Perspective on Refugee and Migrant Integration in Education

This open-access anthology critically explores how “integration” is conceptualized and enacted in educational contexts across diverse geopolitical and socio-cultural environments. Featuring chapters by scholars from Cyprus, Ethiopia, Germany, Mexico, Pakistan, the UK, and the US, it examines both conflict/post-conflict and non-conflict settings. Through grassroots narratives, the book highl…

Influences of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Studies:

The book discusses how civic education has evolved through international assessments, highlighting the importance of fostering democratic values, civic knowledge, and active participation in youth. It presents comparative findings, policy uptake, and the role of these studies in shaping curriculum development across countries.

Respecting the Voices of Individuals from Marginalised Communities in Research

The document is a reprint of a special issue from the journal "Education Sciences," focusing on the importance of respecting the voices of individuals from marginalized communities in research.

Creating The Desire Of Change In Higher Education

This open-access, evidence-informed volume explores strategies for fostering institutional change in higher education by strengthening the integration of research and teaching. Drawing on international scholarship and the Amsterdam model, editors and contributors present pathways toward sustainable “hybrid” institutions where both research and education are deeply intertwined.

Adult and Continuing Education in France

This open-access study offers a comprehensive overview of adult and vocational education in France. Tracing its historical foundations, it examines key political, legal, and financial frameworks, along with institutional structures, program offerings, participation trends, and characteristics of teaching staff.

Global Agendas and Education Reforms

Global Agendas and Education Reforms: A Comparative Study analyzes how global education agendas—such as digitalization, entrepreneurship, emergency education, internationalization, diversity, and sustainability—shape national education reforms across various countries. It highlights convergence in policies and examines their impact on pedagogy, curriculum, teacher training, and administration

Manifesting For A Post-Critical Pedagogy

This manifesto critiques the conventional critical pedagogy’s focus on revealing injustice and striving for an ideal future. Instead, it proposes an affirmative, present-focused pedagogy rooted in five core principles. These principles encourage educators and researchers to recognize and nurture what is already educational in current practices—anchored in love for the world and hope in the …

Multilevel Pedagogical Leadership in Higher Education

This book examines pedagogical leadership in higher education as a dynamic, multi-level phenomenon—spanning global policy, institutional management, and classroom supervision. Using Non‑Affirmative Theory (NAT), it explores how leaders at different levels interpret, translate, and enact educational strategies to influence teaching, learning, and curriculum development in coherent yet contex…