Theorising Research, Innovation and Internationalisation in African Higher Ed…

This book delves into the evolving landscape of African higher education, examining the complex interplay between research, innovation, and internationalisation. It addresses the challenges and opportunities shaped by colonial legacies, globalisation, decolonisation, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The volume highlights the significant contributions of African scholars to global higher education and…

Raising The Impact Of Education Research In Africa

his scholarly volume addresses the low demonstrable effect of education research in South Africa and Africa, focusing on recommendations from scholars in various educational sub-fields. It revisits the history of research outcomes and offers informed recommendations based on in-depth investigations and analyses. The book aims to stimulate scholarly discussion on increasing the recording of the …

Perspectives on Transitions in Refugee Education

This open-access volume examines the multifaceted transitions refugees encounter—individual, social, and cultural—and their intersections with educational experiences. Drawing on studies from diverse national contexts, the book explores the complex relationships between individuals, culture, society, and institutions. By analyzing these transitional processes, the work aims to deepen unders…

Self-Directed Learning Curriculum implementation, praxis and scholarship in …

This open-access scholarly volume offers an in-depth analysis of self-directed learning (SDL) across curriculum design, teaching practice, and academic research. Drawing on a wide range of original studies, it highlights how SDL can be strategically embedded in curricula to foster learners’ autonomy and readiness for 21st-century challenges. Grounded in constructivist, socio-constructivist, a…

Becoming a Teacher

This book presents original research on learning through practical experience in pre-service teacher education. It reveals the student-teaching practicum—also known as work-integrated learning (WIL)—as the pivotal "elephant in the room," where theory meets real teaching environments

Perspectives on comprehensive internationalisation of higher education

This open‑access volume argues that internationalisation in higher education must be competitive, sustainable, and contribute meaningfully to both local and global educational development. It explores how higher education institutions (HEIs) balance economic imperatives—such as rankings, revenue from international student enrolment, and recruitment of top researchers—with educational goal…

DISCIPLINARY STRUGGLES IN EDUCATION

This edited volume examines "disciplinary struggles" in education through three intertwined perspectives. The first section explores how educational practices and institutions are inherently disciplinary in nature.

Theorising Curriculum in Unsetting Times In African Higher Education

Curriculum lies at the core of education and higher learning, yet its study and practice grow more complex amid global challenges. This volume explores how African universities navigate curriculum in the context of COVID-19, calls for decolonisation, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, it examines the tensions between traditional, Eurocentric edu…

Opening Up Education

A collection of essays by leading experts explores how open education—encompassing open technology, content, and knowledge—can fundamentally shift the economics and dynamics of learning. Drawing on diverse initiatives—from courseware and simple games to open-source platforms—contributors highlight the untapped potential of shared educational resources. They call for not just technical i…

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…

Dire StraitS-eDucation reformS

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978-1-80064-933-0

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364 page

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379

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

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…

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 …

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…

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

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…

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.

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…

Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship

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Volume 15

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978-90-04-41194-4

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202 page

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370

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.

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 …

Scholarship of education and human rights in diversity

This open-access volume foregrounds the intersections of education, human rights, and diversity from a Global South vantage point. Edited by Serfontein, Wolhuter, and Naidoo, it critiques Western-dominated perspectives and reframes scholarship through African and SADC-region lenses. Chapters unpack themes such as citizenship education, human rights literacies, pedagogical approaches, school dis…

Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education

Northern Lights on Civic and Citizenship Education presents findings on how civic knowledge, attitudes, and engagement are taught and experienced by students in Nordic countries. It highlights trends, challenges, and opportunities in promoting democratic citizenship through education

Equity Policies in Global Higher Education

This open‑access volume critically explores global policies and practices designed to promote equity in participation and attainment within higher education. Despite the mass expansion of university systems facilitating access for students from underprivileged backgrounds, significant socioeconomic inequalities persist—especially in admission to selective institutions and programs. The book…

Global Citizenship Education

This open-access volume provides a critical, international examination of GCE as it becomes mainstreamed globally. It focuses on issues like diversity and indigeneity, global inequality, human rights, and sustainability. While GCE is promoted as a way to equip youth for an inclusive world, the concept remains contested across different national and cultural contexts. Through geographically dive…

Critically Assessing The Reputation Of Waldorf Education In Academia And The …

Volume One brings together international perspectives to critically examine how Waldorf (Steiner) education was received and understood in academic and public discourse during its formative years, from 1919 to 1955. Spanning six countries—Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Austria, and Finland—the book challenges the historical view of Waldorf as a uniformly “progressive educa…

TWENTY YEARS OF EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION

This open-access volume offers a comprehensive review of the Gauteng Department of Education's (GDE) evolution over two decades, from 1994 to 2014. Comprising 15 essays by various specialists, the book examines the GDE's policies, resource allocation, and project implementations. It provides insights into the department's operations, decisions, and their consequences, presenting a balanced pers…

Understanding China’s School Leadership

This open-access book explores the unique terminology of school leadership in China, providing insights into its political, legal, financial, administrative, and cultural contexts. By analyzing key terms used in Chinese educational policies, laws, and school practices, the author offers a comprehensive understanding of how school leadership operates within China's educational system

Changing The Course Of AIDS

Changing the Course of AIDS offers an in-depth evaluation of a grassroots educational approach to mitigating the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Drawing upon six years of research in major South African workplaces, the author, David Dickinson, reveals how ordinary workers serving as peer educators can be as—if not more—effective at promoting behavioral change than traditional expert-led interventions. T…

Research & Multicultural Education From The Margins To The Mainstream

Edited by Carl A. Grant, this volume examines the evolution of multicultural education research in the United States. It argues that multicultural perspectives have historically been marginalized within mainstream scholarship and seeks to bring these voices to the forefront.

Improvement in Developing Countries

This open-access volume examines rural school improvement initiatives across four developing contexts—China, Myanmar, Uganda, and Kenya. It investigates the challenges these rural schools face, the models and interventions applied to address them (such as teacher professional development, community partnerships, technology integration, and leadership training), and evaluates their effectivene…

The Governing- Evaluation- Knowledge Nexus

This open-access book examines the intricate relationships between governance, evaluation, and knowledge within Swedish higher education. It delves into the origins, logics, and mechanisms of evaluation and quality assurance reforms, analyzing their dynamic interactions with institutional, national, and European policy contexts. Through extensive empirical studies, the chapters provide detailed…

Open Education International Perspectives in Higher Education

Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education is an insightful collection of essays that explores how open education can democratize access to higher education globally.

Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road?

This book presents a comparative analysis of Germany and Great Britain to demonstrate how national institutional frameworks influence the labor market outcomes of higher education graduates. It identifies four key institutional dimensions—higher education system structure, study content, graduate labor market organization, and labor market flexibility—that shape these transitions.

THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

The Global South and Comparative and International Education proposes and elaborates on the construct of “Criticism against Northern Hegemony” within the field. The author, Charl C. Wolhuter, integrates diverse critical strands—including critiques of development theories, foreign aid regimes, globalization, neoliberal economics, racism, and calls for decolonization—to argue for the …

Education systems and inequalities

Education Systems and Inequalities explores how various national education systems shape and perpetuate social disparities. It examines mechanisms through which education systems generate unequal outcomes based on factors like social background, gender, ethnicity, migration status, and ability. Drawing on international comparative research, the book analyzes structural features—such as tracki…

HERITAGE EDUCATION

This doctoral research explores how indigenous heritage is represented and taught in Caribbean school social studies, focusing on the Dominican Republic, Dominica, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Through analyses of educational policies and classroom practices, Aguilar centers teachers' interpretations of heritage content, pedagogical methods, and their relationships with the past.

Philosophies of Catholic Education

This interdisciplinary volume offers an authoritative account of modern Catholic educational philosophy, bridging education, religious studies, philosophy, and theology

Translating Human Rights in Education

This open-access monograph examines how Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)—which enshrines the right to inclusive education—has been implemented in two very different contexts: Nigeria and Germany. Despite formal commitment to inclusive education, both nations have paradoxically upheld segregated schooling systems: Nigeria due to a lack of fo…

Empowering At-Risk Youth in and Through Vocational Education

This open-access book presents insights into the resilience strategies of at-risk vocational education and training (VET) students in the fields of learning, employment, and social integration across the Baltic countries and Norway. It investigates how VET can enhance the social inclusion of at-risk youth by combating school dropout rates and promoting transitions between various learning conte…

Shadow Education in the Middle East

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of private supplementary tutoring, commonly known as shadow education, across 12 Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East. It explores the educational and cultural commonalities among these nations, examining the drivers of demand and supply for shadow education, and assessing its impact on mainstream schooling. The study highlights the significan…

International and Comparative Studies in Adult and Continuing Education

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978-88-5518-154-9

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241 page

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374

The Economic Impact of Christian Missionaries in Zambia

This open-access study explores how Christian missionaries shaped Zambian and broader sub-Saharan African development across nearly a century. It traces missionary interventions in Western-style education and healthcare, highlighting how these services were delivered unevenly across gender and regions. By examining missionary legacies, the book reveals how inequities in educational access and r…