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A comparative study of critical reading abilities among students in Malaysia and Vietnam: Insights from PISA-based assessment Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Ha Van Le, Long Quoc Nguyen
This study conducted a comparative analysis of critical reading skills among engineering students at private universities in Malaysia and Vietnam, using the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) reading framework. Involving 182 undergraduates, the research included a quantitative critical reading test followed by statistical analysis (T-tests) to examine score variability among first-year
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International student experience of employment integration in Finland Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Wei Lu, Tayla Everson Härkälä
International students have the potential to contribute significantly to host countries through cultural enrichment, economic growth, and human capital development. However, their successful integration into the host society is crucial to realise these benefits. By applying the framework of the two-way integration process from acculturation theory, this study examines the employment integration of
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International students’ burnout and self-efficacy profiles and their relation to writing conceptions Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Yufan Yin, Anna Parpala, Auli Toom
International students are at risk of burnout during their studies and face challenges in their writing. This study explores the burnout and self-efficacy profiles of international students and how these profiles differ in writing conceptions. Participants were 162 international students at a research-intensive Finnish university. They completed the HowULearn Questionnaire and the Writing Process Questionnaire
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Effectiveness of the online and blended teaching methods in developing professional engineering cross-curricular skills: A study for Latin America Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Mario Alberto de la Puente Pacheco, Juan Diego Rios Mahecha, Mauro Maury Campo, Jose Torres
This study explores the effectiveness of online and blended teaching methods in developing cross-curricular skills crucial for an ideal engineering profile among undergraduate students. Involving 587 online and 635 blended students across 11 Latin American universities, the research incorporates Likert tests for student perceptions and Mann-Whitney statistical tests for hypothesis scrutiny. Challenges
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Disentangling the complexities of English language education policies in diverse contexts: A comparative study Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Sutraphorn Tantiniranat, Siti Masrifatul Fitriyah, Elisa Pérez Gracia
This ecologically framed study highlights the complexities of English language education (ELE) policy making in Indonesia, Spain, and Thailand. The primary objectives are, first, to disentangle the complex influences that may have shaped the English language policies in the three contexts through an ecological lens, and second, to compare the crucial elements in their ELE policy making. Using an analytical
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Future-readiness and its educational implications: A Daoist interpretation Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Charlene Tan
This paper explores the extent to which our past and present knowledge can help us to be future-ready, and suggests a theoretical basis for future-readiness. Drawing on the thought of the Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi, it is argued that future-readiness is primarily about having an open and flexible mindset where one responds appropriately to emerging realities and challenges. Two salient key Daoist
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Exploring the supervisors’ writing experiences and their effects on undergraduate thesis supervisory practices: A comparison of Japanese and Swedish contexts Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Naoki Fujimoto-Adamson, John L Adamson, Mariya Aida Niendorf
This study explored the effects of the writing experiences of supervisors on undergraduate English language thesis supervision, specifically focusing on the Japanese and Swedish tertiary contexts where English medium instruction (EMI) is delivered to students whose first language is not English. Employing a Collaborative Autoethnographic (CAE) approach, three teacher-researchers working at universities
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Internationalisation and English medium education in Vietnamese universities: Professional role transformation among English language lecturers Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Min Pham, Viet-Nga Nguyen, Hoa Hoang, Thi-Thien-Huong Nguyen, Duc-Hanh Le, Jenny Barnett
This paper investigates an emerging professional role transformation in Vietnamese universities, whereby English language teaching (ELT) lecturers transform themselves into English medium instructi...
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Internationally-national schools: A critical review of this developing sector and the frameworks that define international schools Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Sarah Pearce
Across the world, the international school sector is changing at a rapid pace, having an impact on all facets of international schools, from curriculum to clientele. This article describes an emerg...
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Thailand as a new international higher education hub: Major challenges and opportunities, a policy analysis Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Pongsin Viseshiri, Nuttaporn Lawthong, Gerald W Fry, Lakeesha Ransom, Seongdok Kim, Ngoc Nguyen Thi My
The major analytical research question addressed in this paper is: What are Thailand’s strengths and weaknesses as an international education hub for students from the Asian region? The key descrip...
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‘It’s a few weeks I’ll cherish forever’: Transformative curriculum-specific learning, language awareness and cultural literacy development for Australian students in Vietnam through New Colombo Plan mobility programs Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Ly Thi Tran, Huyen Bui
Despite a range of internationalisation efforts at the government and institutional levels, Vietnam remains on the periphery of the existing scholarship on international education, especially inbou...
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Promises and realities of foreign language medium instruction in the light of internationalization: A case study on EMI and AMI at an Indonesian Islamic University Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Irham Irham, Ribut Wahyudi
The desire to improve institutional profile and students’ linguistic skills leads to the growth of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI). While studies regarding EMI have been sufficiently docum...
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International students in the lesser-known part of Asia: The mosaic of experiences in a Vietnamese higher education institution Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Mai Thi Kim Khanh, Chau Huy Ngoc
The quest for global ranking has motivated higher education institutions (HEIs) in Vietnam to increase the number of international students in their enrolments. However, little is known about exper...
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Global citizenship education practices in Singapore and Australia: Tensions between educational and market rationales Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Suraiya Hameed, Bob Lingard, Sue Creagh
This article draws on a qualitative comparative research study of global citizenship education (GCE) in two primary schools, an international school in Singapore and an independent school in Austra...
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Predicting adjustment of international students: The role of cultural intelligence and perceived cultural distance Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Elok D. Malay, Sabine Otten, Robert J. Coelen
Despite years of investigation on international students’ adjustment, cultural distance and cultural intelligence, the definitions of and the relationship between these concepts are not yet suffici...
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The role of overeducation and horizontal mismatch for gender inequalities in labor income of higher education graduates in Europe Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Giampiero Passaretta, Petra Sauer, Ulrike Schwabe, Katarina Weßling
Evidence on gender inequality in the labor market is extensive. However, little is known about the potential role of overeducation and horizontal mismatch in explaining women’s labor-market disadva...
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Higher education and active citizenship in five European countries: How institutions, fields of study and types of degree shape the political participation of graduates Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Kai Mühleck, Andreas Hadjar
Higher education is expected to contribute to graduates becoming active citizens of democratic societies. Still, little is known about how heterogeneities within higher education are connected to p...
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A regionalism shift? Chinese undergraduate students’ choice of study in Asia Under COVID-19 Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Feifei Gu, Wenqin Shen, Kun Zhang
This paper draws attention to the current and possible effects of COVID-19 on the mobility trajectories of mainland Chinese students studying in Asia. By drawing on 35 biographical interviews, this...
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“Honeymoon” acculturation orientation preferences of new international students: Influence of intercultural attitudes and intentions in an international learning environment Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Adedapo T Aladegbaiye, Menno DT de Jong, Ardion D Beldad
Research routinely suggests that international students often struggle in engaging with other student groups. This study, therefore, examines to what extent and how the intercultural attitudes and ...
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Juxtaposing Acquired and Required Skills: Latent Class Analysis of Self-Assessment Scales in an International Survey Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Vítězslav Lounek, Radim Ryška
Ensuring comparability of Likert-style items across different countries is a widespread challenge for authors of large-scale international surveys. Using data from the EUROGRADUATE Pilot Survey, th...
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Employers’ perceptions of young higher education graduates’ employability in Belarus Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Adela García-Aracil, Rosa Isusi-Fagoaga, Isidora Navarro-Milla
This paper explores the employability of young Higher Education (HE) graduates in Belarus, from the point of view of employers. Graduate employability can be defined by six items: starting a job; l...
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Multilevel analysis of teacher professional well-being and its influential factors based on TALIS data Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Masoumeh Kouhsari, Junjun Chen, Shahin Baniasad
The current study examines how teachers’ professional wellbeing is affected by teacher-level and school-level factors using the TALIS 2018 data. Teacher-level factors consist of teachers’ instructi...
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Differences in transition to the labour market across STEM graduates Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred, Kjersti Nesje
This study compares the transition from education to work for Norwegian graduates with a professional STEM master’s degree to that of their peers with a non-professional STEM master’s degree. We fi...
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International student mobility and labour market outcomes: The role of personality dimensions Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Talieh Sadeghi, Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen, Mikkel Magnus Thørrisen
International student mobility (ISM) is often perceived to enhance career prospects. Surprisingly, the role of personality traits in explaining why students go abroad and relationships between ISM ...
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The influence of sustainability knowledge and attitude on sustainable intention and behaviour of Malaysian and Indonesian undergraduate students Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Mohamad Saifudin Mohamad Saleh, Ali Mehellou, Miao Huang, Rizki Briandana
The study aims to examine Malaysian and Indonesian undergraduate students’ sustainability knowledge and sustainable attitudes and the impact on their sustainability intention and sustainable behavi...
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Satisfaction of business students with the quality of classes during the pandemic: A mixed study in the Latin American context Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Lida Esperanza Villa-Castaño, William Fernando Durán León
Emergency remote education (ERD) adopted by universities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic has pursued to maintain students’ satisfaction. The current research inquiries into perception of the satisfact...
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Distinguishing challenging and overchallenging jobs: Cognitive and affective skills mismatches and their impact on job satisfaction Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Ana Santiago-Vela, Anja Hall
This study supplements the existing conceptualisation of skills mismatch based on cognitive evaluations (being underskilled or overskilled) with an affective aspect that captures how workers cope w...
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Understanding the international student’s experiences in a multilingual university context from a sociolinguistic perspective Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
This paper takes a sociolinguistic perspective in understanding the international student’s experiences in a multilingual university context. Drawing on a narrative inquiry approach, the present qu...
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Locally- and globally-oriented L2 teacher education research: A synchronic analysis of topics and research methodologies Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Hussein Meihami, Fateme Husseini
Research in second language teacher education (SLTE) is critical for making short- and long-term policies and decisions about SLTE programs, materials, methods, etc. Therefore, it is essential to k...
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Between pressure to act and framework for action – the actors in the German and Swiss vocational education and training systems in the face of digitalisation Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Ute Hippach-Schneider, Elena Rieder
The governance of Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems in Germany and Switzerland is determined by a constellation of actors that has grown over many years. This constellation has long-t...
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The development of theory in comparative and international education: An analysis of doctoral theses at North American universities Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Edith Mukudi Omwami, Robin Shields
Comparative and international education (CIE) claims to be an interdisciplinary field embracing a diversity in methodologies and theoretical perspectives. Over the years, there has been an expansio...
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Interstices: Workplace satisfaction, inclusion, and the cultural adjustment of expatriate academics at South Korean universities nationwide Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Douglas R Gress
The number of expatriate faculty members in Korea has been falling since 2013, intimating that Korean universities face a problem with international faculty satisfaction. This research develops a model for expatriate faculty overall workplace satisfaction at Korean universities by integrating acculturation and enculturation theory, social interaction and social connectedness, and workplace inclusivity
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A comparative study of country satisfaction of UAE and Bahrain teachers: The mediating effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Laura L Matherly, Yi Zhang, Balqees Ahmed
Countries increasingly compete for global talent in the education sector to facilitate the transfer of knowledge. This research examines the extent to which the larger, national context, that is, satisfaction with the country, impacts job satisfaction and organizational commitment in a sample of teachers from the UAE and Bahrain. Survey data was collected from 92 teachers. MANOVA was used to compare
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Three-faced: The conflicting roles of citizenship education in conflict-affected societies – A comparison of Northern Ireland and Israel Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Aline Muff, Caitlin Donnelly
The purpose of this article is to compare teachers’ and students’ interpretations of citizenship education (CE) across different communities in conflict-affected societies. By drawing on qualitative research that was conducted in four different schools in Northern Ireland and Israel (Catholic, Protestant, Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Palestinian), we show what may be universal and particular about teaching
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Economic competences of young adults around the world Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Roland Happ, Matthias Pilz
Young adults around the world face many similar challenges. This also applies, among others, to the field of economic thinking. On the one hand, young adults have to make various economic decisions on a daily basis, for example, when shopping. On the other hand, they are confronted in various ways with different areas of economics in relation to their choice of career. As a result, a growing interest
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How does instructional leadership influence opportunity to learn in mathematics? A comparative study of pathways for grade 4 students in the U.S. and Belgium Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Angela M Urick, Timothy G Ford, Alison S Page Wilson, Els Consuegra
While achievement gaps have been well-established, much remains to be understood about the manner and extent to which school leadership either increases or decreases student access to opportunity to learn. The current study uses nationally representative samples of U.S. and Flemish students in Grade 4 from the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS2011) to test a series of
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Comparison of financial education and knowledge in the United States and Germany: Curriculum and assessment Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Andreas Kraitzek, Manuel Förster, William B. Walstad
Changes in the economy and society lead to a growing necessity of financial education. In this context, we investigate the approaches to financial education in secondary schools in the United States and Germany. We seek to answer the question if and how the implementation of financial education is similar and different between the two countries. We address this question for financial education by comparing
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Trans-regional generic competences: The core of an internationalized curriculum Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Pablo Beneitone, Maria Yarosh
If we admit that students must be prepared for life and work in increasingly culturally-diverse and ever changing contexts through core curricula which are the competences that must be prioritized? What competences are ‘strong candidates’ to be considered as trans-regional and can lead to inclusive excellence in higher education? Does, this, perhaps depend on the region where students are educated
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School-entry predictors of lower primary reading and mathematics achievement in Kenya Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Linda M Platas, Lindsey Perry, Benjamin Piper, Yasmin Sitabkhan, Leanne Ketterlin-Geller
Using a longitudinal data set, this paper examines to what extent school-entry (N = 553; mean age 6.32 years) early mathematics and literacy skills predict students’ later achievement in a lower-middle-income country, Kenya. Controlling for socioeconomic status, intervention status, rural versus urban settings and parental literacy, the findings reveal that school-entry mathematics skills were significantly
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The long-term effects of students’ economic competencies on the transition from school to university in the international context Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Michael Jüttler, Stephan Schumann
Because of the high social relevance of an economics education, many countries now focus on the enhancement of economic competencies in schools. International results show strong deficits in basic economic knowledge, especially for students in upper secondary education, who usually enter higher education. Furthermore, it is not clear what effects these competencies have on subsequent transitions, which
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How public media and governments co-construct the adult skills agenda. The OECD's Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies in Italian and Danish newspapers Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Palle Rasmussen, Marcella Milana, Sandra Vatrella, Anne Larson
The ‘Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies’ (PIAAC), developed and managed by the OECD, is an important source of knowledge about adult skills as well as an intervention in the field of education policy. One level of the intervention is the presence of PIAAC results in public media and debate. This article presents a comparative analysis of the way major newspapers in Italy
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Financial knowledge of university students in Korea and Germany Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Roland Happ, Jinsoo Hahn, Kyungho Jang, Ines Rüter
This study compares the financial knowledge of Korean (N = 1006) and German (N = 1346) university students. The country-specific adaptations of the US-American Test of Financial Literacy was used to assess financial knowledge. Financial knowledge can be divided into three areas (everyday money management; banking; insurance). German students show a slightly higher knowledge of everyday money management
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A research design for promoting and examining content knowledge and argumentation skills in socio-economic contexts in German-speaking countries Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Nicole Ackermann, Christin Siegfried
Economic education is an essential prerequisite for coping with economic-characterised problems in various life spheres, especially with socio-economic problems in the societal sphere. Making informed and reasoned decisions on socio-economic problems requires domain-specific content knowledge and domain-specific argumentation skills. Economic education is anchored in many framework curricula at secondary
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Teachers’ perceptions and strategies in the development of intercultural communicative competence: The case of international school teachers in Iran Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Masoomeh Estaji, Sarvenaz Tabrizi
This study explored international school teachers’ views and experiences on how the teachers’ and students’ intercultural communicative competence perceptions could be developed. In the study, nine teachers working in international schools in Iran were selected through purposive sampling to be part of a semi-structured interview. The interview questions were designed by the researchers, drawing on
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Patterns of instruction in Finnish and Norwegian lower secondary mathematics classrooms Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Jennifer Maria Luoto, Kirsti Klette, Marte Blikstad-Balas
This paper focuses on patterns of instructional practices in mathematics classrooms in two Nordic contexts, Finland and Norway. While sharing some key features in terms of ways of organizing schooling and education, these two contexts also exhibit interesting differences in instruction at the classroom level. In using a standardized coding manual to systematically analyze features of instruction in
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A comparative analysis of financial literacy levels and initiatives among students in five European countries Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Marta Cannistrà, Tommaso Agasisti, Aisa Amagir, Kaire Poder, Oliver Holz, Lukas Vartiak, Kristof De Witte
Given the expected advantages for individuals and societies, financial literacy is high on the policy agenda in many countries. This paper reports the results from a unique survey conducted on a sample of 13–16-year-old students in five European countries, aimed at measuring and comparing their level of financial literacy skills. The results indicate significant differences in the level of financial
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Cultural alloys and heterogeneous mixes: Contextualized and comparative language differences in literacy assessment of U.S. and Canadian youth Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-01-17 S. Joel Warrican, Melissa Alleyne, Patriann Smith, Rahat Zaidi, Tala Karkar Esperat, Yi-Hsin Chen, Yue Yin
The United States and Canada, two countries known to have large immigrant populations, have long since reflected a dichotomy, where Canada is generally perceived to be a country with language policies that demonstrate its receptiveness to embrace multiculturalism in schools and classrooms. In contrast, the United States has consistently espoused the notion that one is “American first” and one’s cultural
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‘But you’re white’: An autoethnography of whiteness and white privilege in East Asian universities Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Leon Moosavi
It is well established within the field of Critical Whiteness Studies that white privilege routinely materialises in Western universities. Yet, even though a third wave of Critical Whiteness Studies is increasingly focussing on whiteness in non-Western contexts, there has been insufficient attention toward whether white privilege also exists in East Asian universities. This article seeks to explore
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Cross-national structure of economic competence: Insights from a German and Russian assessment Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Denis Federiakin, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Elena Kardanova, Carla Kühling-Thees, Jasmin Reichert-Schlax, Yuliya Koreshnikova
In this paper, we present a study, which models and measures the competencies of higher education students in business and economics—within and across countries. To measure student competencies in a valid and reliable way, the Test of Understanding in College Economics was used, which assesses microeconomic and macroeconomic competencies. The test was translated into several languages and adapted for
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The media’s role in shaping the public opinion on education: A thematic and frame analysis of externalisation to world situations in the Portuguese media Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Íris Santos, Luís Miguel Carvalho, Benedita Portugal e Melo
This article uses thematisation theory (Luhmann, 1996; Pissarra Esteves, 2016) and frame analysis (Entman, 1993) to analyse externalisations to world situations (Schriewer, 1990) in the Portuguese print media’s discussion of education. Our data constitutes news and opinion articles collected after each PISA cycle’s results was published. The analysis demonstrates that the education themes discussed
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Economic literacy among beginning higher education economics students in Japan and Germany and its socio-demographic influencing factors Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Jasmin Reichert-Schlax, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Roland Happ, Michio Yamaoka, Tadayoshi Asano, Shintaro Abe
In view of cross-national student mobility and increasing internationalization of the labor market, a common understanding of economic concepts as well as awareness for country-specific factors influencing economics education is essential. Therefore, the development of instruments that allow for comparable investigation across countries is crucial. The present study describes economic education in
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Book Review: Researching second language acquisition in the study abroad learning environment: An introduction for student researchers Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Dahlia Dwedar
Researching Second Language Acquisition in the Study Abroad Learning Environment: An Introduction for Student Researchers (Isabelli-García and Isabelli, 2020) presents an overview of some of the major topics relevant to research on study abroad. This book is intended to be a basic primer for advanced students and beginner professional researchers and serves to provide general orientation on various
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To shelter or unshelter? An analysis of international students’ experience in introductory communication courses Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Aayushi Hingle, Rochelle Davidson Mhonde, Melissa Broeckelman-Post
The purpose of this study was to assess the degree to which sheltered versus unsheltered contexts of introductory communication courses impact communication skill development and overall learning outcomes for international students. Specifically, this study examined the following outcome variables: public speaking anxiety, engagement, communication mindset, communication efficacy, and student performance
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Towards understanding of policy transfer and policy learning in adult education in the context of United Kingdom Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Natasha Kersh, Andrea Laczik
Over the past decade, adult education and Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the UK context have been strongly affected by the implications of unstable political, social and economic situations, specifically in relation to social and economic inclusion of vulnerable young adults. This paper argues, that the development of policy transfer and policy learning in adult education has been characterised
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Decolonising recognition of prior learning – The drawbacks of policy mimicking Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2021-11-27 Patrick Werquin
Recognition of prior learning features at the top of the policy agenda in many countries because recognition of prior learning (RPL) has proven effective in some parts of the world; and there is much policy learning taking place. Therefore, many countries want to gain the advantages associated with RPL. It brings benefits to individual end-users and countries as a whole. Whether RPL should be identically
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Reconstructing policy transfer in adult and vocational education and training Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Antje Barabasch, Sandra Bohlinger, Stefan Wolf
The article contributes to the understanding of educational policy transfer with a particular focus on VET and labour-market related training. A review of VET policy transfer literature is followed by a description of travelling VET reforms in adult and vocational education and training around the globe. Historical foundations of VET policy transfer are described with an emphasis on lending and borrowing
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Policy transfer in vocational education and training and adult education Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Antje Barabasch, Sandra Bohlinger, Stefan Wolf
International policy transfer is a key theme within international and comparative education and has not been explored fully in the fields of vocational education, workplace learning and labour market-related adult education. The term refers to the process of exchanging and adopting policy measures, reforms, strategies and ideas from one context to another (Dolowitz and Marsh, 2000; Li and Pilz, 2021)
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Conditions for cross-border policy transfer and cooperation: Analysing differences between higher education and vocational training Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Lukas Graf, Anna P. Lohse
Against the backdrop of an increasingly interconnected world as well as the growing role of inter- and supranational organizations, policy transfer has become a widespread phenomenon, not least in the realm of education. While policy transfer research has focused predominantly on isolated education sectors, less is known about the overall institutional conditions that favour or inhibit policy movement
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The ‘recognition of prior learning’ in vocational education and training systems of lower and middle income countries: An analysis of the role of development cooperation in the diffusion of the concept Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Markus Maurer
‘Recognition of prior learning’ (RPL) has developed into an important instrument to support the permeability of education and training systems. Based on an extensive review of documents, this article analyses the global diffusion of RPL in vocational education and training systems (VET), with a specific focus on its diffusion through development cooperation between multi- and bilateral donors and lower
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International education governance in the francophone microcosm Research in Comparative and International Education Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Isabelle Le Mouillour
International cooperation is high on the agenda of policy makers in times of globalisation and shared challenges such as climate change, poverty, equity or digitalisation. The present paper investigates strategies and actors involved in international cooperation policy in the field of vocational education and training within the francophone area. Using a discursive institutionalism approach as an analysis