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Cultural Literacy and Empathy in Education Practice edited by Gabriel García Ochoa and Sarah McDonald. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. vii+186 pp. US$109.99 (cloth); US$79.99 (paper); US$84.99 (e-book). Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Nico Irawan,Tri Febrianti Valentina,Nizamuddin Sadiq
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Local Appropriations of “Readiness” in a Global Era of Schoolification: An Ethnographic Study of Kindergarten Teachers in Israel Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Miranda Shemesh,Deborah Golden
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Expanding Available Futures: Ideological Contestation in Angola’s Emerging Higher Education Sector Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Jess Auerbach
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Sistemi scolastici nel mondo globale: Educazione comparata e politiche educative (School systems in the global world: Comparative education and educational policies) by Monica E. Mincu. Milan: Mondadori, 2020. 195 pp. €18.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-88-6184-620-3. Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Jose Henrique Arzani
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The Conscience of a Progressive by Steven Klees. Winchester, UK: ZerO Books, 2020. 191 pp. US$23.95. ISBN 978-1-78904-496-6. Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Salim Vally
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Educating Transnationally Mobile Students: A Multidimensional Framework Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Maxie Gluckman,Leslie Gautsch,Megan Hopkins
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A Troubled Body of Knowledge: The Durability of Racial Science in Human Anatomy Research in South Africa Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Cyrill Walters,Jonathan D. Jansen
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“You Can’t Win a Cold War with Hot Weapons”: Frank C. Laubach’s Educational Project, Adult Literacy Campaigns, and US Foreign Policy (1945–1961) Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Alexis Cherewka,Esther Prins
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Unlocking the Black Box: To What Extent Are Interactive Classrooms Effective Classrooms in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India? Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Rhiannon Moore,Caine Rolleston,Ana Grijalva
Universalization of basic education in India has increased demand for access to secondary schooling, yet concerns about quality and equity remain. While evidence of poor learning attainment continues to accumulate, less is known about classroom interactions or how these relate to student outcomes. In this article, we employ a unique data set that links school effectiveness and classroom observation
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Making Sense of Schooling during COVID-19: Crisis as Opportunity in Korean Schools Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Taeyeon Kim,Sunbin Lim,Minseok Yang,Soo Jung Park
This article explores how policy actors in South Korea understand and make meaning of school-related policies responding to COVID-19. Using sensemaking and crisis theory as a framework and informed by literature on policy culture, we analyzed qualitative data collected from interviews with teachers, educational leaders, and parents. The findings show that our participants initially thought the crisis
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Kun Koulu Vapautui Vankilasta (When School Broke Out of Prison) Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Zsuzsa Millei
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Teachers in Neoinstitutional and World Culture Theory Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Gerald Letendre
Theorizing the role that teachers play in national education systems in a period of rapid globalization has proven challenging for social scientists and comparative education theorists alike. In accounting for the manifold roles and functions of teachers over time, theory must account for both cultural persistence (institutionalization) as well as cultural change at multiple levels. As teachers did
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This Is Home: A Refugee Story Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Vidur Chopra,Manar Marouf
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Teacher Training and Textbook Distribution Improve Early Grade Reading: Evidence from Papua and West Papua Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Htet Thiha Zaw,Suguru Mizunoya,Dominic Richardson,Despina Karamperidou,Hiroyuki Hattori,Monika Oledzka-Nielsen
While numerous studies evaluate the effectiveness of teacher training and textbook distribution programs, few look at the effects of training programs on vulnerable students, those at the lower end of academic performance. Addressing this gap is important to improve the efficiency of student learning and address the equity gaps in early education. Our study makes this point with two models of a program
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We Are the Radical Monarchs Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Supriya Baily
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Facing the Anthropocene: Comparative Education as Sympoiesis Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Iveta Silova
Comp It is usually at the edges where the great tectonic plates of theorymeet and shift that we find the most dramatic developments and upheavals. When four tectonic plates of liberation theory—those concerned with the oppressions of gender, race, class, and nature—finally come together, the resulting tremors could shake the conceptual structures of oppression to their foundations. (Plumwood 1993,
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Do Private Schools Improve Learning Outcomes? Evidence from Within-Household Comparisons in East Africa and South Asia Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Rob J. Gruijters,Benjamin Alcott,Pauline Rose
A contentious debate in academic as well as policy circles relates to the growth in private schooling in the Global South. While proponents highlight the superior learning outcomes of pupils in private schools, others have argued that this is merely a reflection of the more advantaged family background of private school pupils, rather than an effect of private schooling itself. We contribute to this
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Beyond Cancel Culture: Reflections on the Criticisms of “Comforting Histories” Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Keita Takayama
In 2018, I published in this journal “Beyond Comforting Histories: The Colonial/Imperial Entanglements of the International Institute, Paul Monroe, and Isaac L. Kandel at Teachers College, Columbia University” (“Beyond Comforting Histories” hereafter). My intention was to complicate the much-celebrated founding histories of the field by situating the so-called founding fathers and institution within
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The Teaching Professions and Globalization: A Scoping Review of the Anglophone Research Literature Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Tore Bernt Sorensen,Xavier Dumay
Based on a scoping review of anglophone, peer-reviewed studies published in the period 1990–2018, we analyze and discuss the research literature on teachers, teaching, and globalization. Distinguishing between three categories of globalization theories, centered on (i) culture, (ii) political economy, and (iii) flows and systems, we trace the uses of these theories in the literature over the period
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Teachers and the Teaching Profession in Global Education Policy Theory: A Commentary Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Antoni Verger
How does globalization affect teachers and teaching? How are teachers represented in globalization studies? Are globalization theories sufficiently equipped to capture contemporary changes in teachers’work? These are some of the core questions addressed in this special section in Comparative Education Review on Teachers, Teaching and Globalization. The section opens with a scoping review of peer-reviewed
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From Responsible to Radical: Reimagining the Aims and Boundaries of Education through Film Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Jorge Baxter,Hugh MClean,Adriana Cepeda
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Making Sense of Teacher Education in a Globalizing World: The Distinctive Contribution of a Sociocultural Approach Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Katharine Burn,Ian Menter
This article examines the potential of sociocultural approaches for making sense of the way in which globalization shapes teacher education policy and practice in particular contexts. It argues that the value of such approaches lies in their reframing of many conventional dualities that tend to characterize analyses of the process of globalization: dichotomies drawn, for example, between the global
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Comparative Education Review Guide to Searching for World Literature 2021 Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Kathryn Anderson-Levitt
This is the fourth in a biannual series of guides to finding literature in comparative education, which Comparative Education Review (CER) began publishing when the journal’s long-standing annual bibliographies could no longer keep up with publications in the field. This version returns to one of the questions that first prompted this series: Why should English-language speakers make the effort to
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CER Moderated Discussion on “‘Participation Does Not Equal Voice’: Gendered Experiences in an Academic and Professional Society” Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Christine Min Wotipka,Emily W. Anderson,Catherine Vanner,Kristy Kelly,Ritty Lukose,Keita Takayama,Gerardo L. Blanco,Nicole Webster,Esther O. Ohito
Adding to the regular features of the Comparative Education Review (CER)— research articles informed by theory and practice, editorials, and media and book essays and reviews—CER has published eleven moderated discussions since 2004, most recently in 2018 (Ginsburg et al. 2018) and 2021 (Cohen et al. 2021). Moderated discussions offer scholars and practitioners in the field of comparative and international
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Educational Administration Research in Comparative Education, 1995–2018 Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Joseph Flessa,Daniela Bramwell,Gisele Cuglievan Mindreau
For the past several decades there has been a solid research and policy consensus that school level leadership is an important lever for school improvement and is an integral component of the policy implementation process. Although broadly concerned with both improvement and policy implementation, the field of comparative education has engaged questions of school level leadership and administration
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Merit Pay for Schoolteachers in Italy, 2015–2016: A New Regime of Education Accountability? Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Daniele Checchi,Paola Mattei
In 2015, a new performance-related pay scheme was introduced for schoolteachers in Italy as part of education accountability policies aimed at improving their performance. Beginning in that year, all Italian state school principals were offered the opportunity to distribute wage bonuses to deserving teachers. During the first year of implementation, 82 percent of the schools appointed ad hoc internal
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Equitable, Quality Education for Ethnic Minority Students? A Case of “Positive Deviance” in Vietnam Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Padmini Iyer,Caine Rolleston,Vu Thi Thanh Huong
Vietnam has achieved near-universal access to compulsory schooling over the past two decades. However, inequalities between ethnic majority and minority students are stark at post-compulsory levels, where progression is selective based on academic criteria and ability to pay. In this article, we adopt a mixed-methods approach to examine quality and equity for ethnic minority students in upper secondary
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College behind Bars, part 1, “No One Ever Taught Me Any of That”; part 2, “I’m Trying to Get Home to My Family, Too”; part 3, “Every Single Word Matters”; part 4, “Home Is a Work in Progress” directed by Lynn Novick, produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns. Skiff Mountain Films, 2019. 57 minutes (part 1), 56 minutes (part 2), 57 minutes (part 3), 57 minutes (part 4). Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Sanfeng Miao
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Education Activism in the Syrian Civil War: Resisting by Persisting Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Kjetil Selvik
This article analyzes education activists’ resilience in emergencies, building on life story interviews with Syrians who engaged in civil society initiatives for schooling in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising. It investigates the meaning that education acquires under extreme adversity and how it inspires individuals to act. Finding that these activists think of education as a means to resist authoritarianism
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Action Competence for Gender Equality as Sustainable Development: Analyzing Swedish Lower Secondary Level Textbooks in Biology, Civics, and Home and Consumer Studies Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Elin Biström,Ragnar Lundström
Gender equality constitutes a central aspect of sustainable development. Education is commonly viewed as crucial for achieving both sustainable development and gender equality, and many argue that fostering action competence is a key element in such educational efforts. This article directs attention to the ways in which textbook content about sustainable development and gender equality may support
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“Participation Does Not Equal Voice”: Gendered Experiences in an Academic and Professional Society Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Emily W. Anderson,Catherine Vanner,Christine Min Wotipka,Kristy Kelly
“Male culture” strongly persists in academic and professional societies, including at annual conferences and meetings, where women-identifying individuals report facing various forms of sexual harassment, discrimination, exclusion, and marginalization. This study goes beyond parity metrics to innovate the monitoring of gender by analyzing gender inequalities and inequities in the space of an academic
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25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries: Reform and Continuity edited by Jeroen Huisman, Anna Smolentseva, and Isak Froumin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 510 pp. $31.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-3-319-52980-6. Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Saule Anafinova
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Developing Intercultural Language Learning edited by Michelle Kohler. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 149 pp. €42.79 (e-book). ISBN 978-3-030-59113-7. Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Intan Pradita,Suwarno
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Small Axe, episode 5, “Education” directed by Steve McQueen, produced by Anita Overland and Mike Elliott, and edited by Chris Dickens and Steve McQueen. Turbine Studios, EMU Films, BBC, and Amazon Studios, 2020. 63 minutes. Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Nigel O. M. Brissett,Carol Y. Bailey
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Affect Theory and Comparative Education Discourse: Essays on Fear and Loathing in Response to Global Educational Policy and Practice by Irving Epstein. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 232 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1350043602. Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Florin D. Salajan
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“I Learned That My Name Is Spelled Wrong”: Lessons from Mexico and Nepal on Teaching Literacy for Indigenous Language Reclamation Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Haley De Korne,Miranda Weinberg
Globally many minority and Indigenous communities are searching for ways to reclaim languages that have been marginalized by socioeconomic and political processes. These efforts often involve novel literacy practices. In this article, we draw from ethnographic data in Mexico and Nepal to ask, what are the opportunities and constraints of teaching writing in support of Indigenous language reclamation
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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Comparative and International Education in Light of the COVID-19 Emergency: Imagining the Field Anew Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-05-01 Elisheva Cohen,Laura Wangsness Willemsen,Ritesh Shah,Frances Vavrus,Nelson Masanche Nkhoma,Sonja Anderson,Prachi Srivastava,Sarah Dryden-Peterson
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a global educational emergency. Communities worldwide have struggled to provide education in ways that keep educators, students, and families safe; respond to ongoing uncertainty and trauma; and account for increasingly unequal access to educational and financial resources. For some, the global pandemic also compounded and exacerbated existing crises, furthering threats
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“Too Dangerous to Help”: White Supremacy, Coloniality, and Maya Youth Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Alexandra Allweiss
Global, (trans)national, and local moments frame this article and highlight how white supremacy and modern/colonial processes and logics operate in and through Guatemala, the Chuj nation, and Chuj youth’s lives, organizing work, and educational spaces. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic research with Chuj youth and educators, I argue that education, development, and Indigenous youth are at once targets
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The Dissertation and the Archive: Governing a Field through the Production of a Genre Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Daniel S. Friedrich,Nancy Ku Bradt
The present article analyzes dissertations written by international doctoral graduates at Teachers College during the first two decades of the twentieth century. By focusing on the earliest period of the doctoral program, our work seeks to understand the role of the dissertation archive in producing and governing the emerging field of academic education research with global entanglements. Questions
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Comparative Education Review: A 2020 Retrospective Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Bjørn H. Nordtveit
An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including comparative and international education, COVID-19 pandemic, and white supremacy
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Clustering Secondary Education and the Focus on Science: Impacts on Higher Education and the Job Market in Bangladesh Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Gazi Mahabubul Alam,Md Abdur Rahman Forhad
Many countries continue to follow a policy of clustering educational provision by disciplinary stream as developed during the British colonial era. Whether such an approach enables education to fulfill its developmental purpose is still open to debate. Using multiple qualitative tools, this study investigates the impact of clustering education in Bangladesh. The findings suggest that the clustering
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Negotiated Marketization: Public Universities and Higher Education Markets in Peru (1990–2014) Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Omar Manky,Juan Dolores
Higher education marketization has often been explained either by state weakness or by the articulation capacity of business actors. However, these perspectives overlook the role of other actors in the negotiation processes determining the results of these reforms. Like other countries of the Global South, Peru experienced a radical marketization process throughout the 1990s. Previous studies have
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The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures in Earnings and Income across the World Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-04-08 George Psacharopoulos,Victoria Collis,Harry Anthony Patrinos,Emiliana Vegas
Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to mass school and university closures worldwide. The article provides estimates of the economic loss associated with these closures by mapping lost learning to the lifetime reduction of the earnings of graduates from 205 high-, middle-, and low-income countries. While others have provided estimates of earnings losses due to COVID-19
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Policy Transformation: How Has the Teacher Pay-for-Performance Policy Been Changed from Carrot to Stick? Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Jeong-a Kim
Teacher pay-for-performance policies have been introduced in many countries, including South Korea, in order to improve the quality of teacher workforces. However, such policies cannot be exactly replicated across countries. A policy transferred across borders is transformed within each new situation. Based on policy mobility and transformation frameworks, this study focuses on the influence of contextual
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Running the Wrong Race? The Case of PISA for Development Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 David Rutkowski,Leslie Rutkowski
With the aim of developing an assessment more appropriate for low-income countries, in 2013 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development initiated the Programme for International Student Assessment for Development (PISA-D). Designed as a one-off assessment project resulting in scores comparable to PISA, nine countries joined the project. In this article, we focus on whether PISA-D does
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Beyond Rationality Order and Purpose: A Step into the Dark Side of Global Educational Research Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Jason Beech
Education in Radical Uncertainty is a book about how we address the world through educational research, andhowwe could address it differently. It is about what we consider to be valid knowledge, our notions of reality and representation, and theplace of the knower/researcher/writer in theprocess of knowledge creation. It is about the difficulty that educational researchers face when attempting to break
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Student-Centered Learning and Sustainability: Solution or Problem? Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Hikaru Komatsu,Jeremy Rappleye,Iveta Silova
While discussions surrounding education for sustainable development (ESD) are diverse, most scholars and policy makers view student-centered learning (SCL) as axiomatic. In contrast, we argue that promoting SCL potentially stymies educational contributions to sustainability by extending a culturally specific belief in ontological individualism. We first highlight that countries committed to SCL tend
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Scientific and Social Discourses about Poverty Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Elijah E. Dunbar
In Poverty & Power: The Problem of Structural Inequality, Edward Royce argues that poverty does not derive from the moral weaknesses, inferior abilities, or deviant behaviors of the poor; instead, it is the result of a shortage of well-paying jobs and disparaging cultural discourses about the poor, among other socioeconomic factors that advantage the powerful and the wealthy and disadvantage the powerless
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Special Issue: Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Sharon Walker,Krystal Strong,Derron Wallace,Arathi Sriprakash,Leon Tikly,Crain Soudien
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Sixty-Five Years of the Comparative Education Review: Black Lives Matter, Ethics, New Directions, and New Ideas Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Bjorn H. Nordtveit
The year 2020 was a harrowing year, with a global pandemic that halted the normal socioeconomic functioning of most countries and also disrupted schooling worldwide. Moreover, on May 25, 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, brutality in the United States against the Black community led to the killing of another black man, George Floyd, by the Minneapolis police. The ensuing protests, many of which were
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Demystifying Privatization of Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Poor Households Utilize Private Schooling because of Perceived Quality, Distance to School, or Low Fees? Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Moses Waithanji Ngware,Maurice Mutisya
This article examines why poor urban households utilize low-fee private schools despite the government’s pro-poor free primary education program in Kenya. Cross-sectional data collected in 2010 through a demographic surveillance survey is analyzed. Students’ parents responded to questions concerning their perceptions of the quality of schooling after the introduction of free primary education. In total
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Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters by Jeff Schlegelmilch. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 200 pp. $20.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-231-19041-1. Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Radhika Iyengar,Nachiketa Acharya
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Diversity, Transformative Knowledge, and Civic Education: Selected Essays by James A. Banks. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2020. 221 pp. $47.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-367-86319-7. Comparative Education Review (IF 2.037) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Carlos J. Ovando