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Global Flows of Competence-based Approaches in Primary and Secondary Education
(2017)
This essay reviews the history of competence-based approaches and related reforms in the domain of primary and secondary education, seeking to explain how they have come to appear in various countries and international ...
Introduction. Anthropologies and Ethnographies of Education Worldwide
(2011)
In the 1950s, a branch of educational research known as the anthropology of education first appeared in the United States, and by the 1970s its practitioners were publishing the Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Also ...
Significance: Recognizing the Value of Research across National and Linguistic Boundaries
(2014)
Internationalization of educational publishing promises fresh perspectives and new solutions—but not if U.S.-based editors, reviewers and readers fail to recognize the significance of research conducted outside the United ...
La forme scolaire mondiale comme niche de développement
(2012)
Argues that the form of schooling, including age grading and gender mixing, that has spread around the world and now touches 95 percent of the world’s children necessarily shapes children’s psychological development. Draws ...
Introduction. Comparing Ethnographies Across the Americas: Queries and Lessons
(2017)
Crossing borders to compare ethnographic research across the Americas is difficult but imperative. In this volume, the editors and authors demonstrate what education researchers can learn by comparing ethnographic studies ...
Complicating the Concept of Culture
(2012)
This essay argues against a simple, reified view of culture as a set of ideas and norms belonging to a group or nation, and considers the implications of a more complicated concept for discussion of world culture and the ...
Significance: U.S. Blind Spots in Judging Research
(2014)
Opening U.S. educational publishing to the rest of the world promises fresh perspectives and new solutions—but not if U.S.-based editors, reviewers and readers fail to recognize the significance of research conducted outside ...
Review of The NGOisation of Education: Case Studies from Benin by Sarah Fichtner
(2015)
Book review of The NGOisation of Education: Case Studies from Benin by Sarah Fichtner, Cologne: PB-Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2012
Introduction to the dossier. “Competence-based” approaches as “traveling” reforms: Ideas, trajectories and practices in implementation
(2017)
Introduction to a theme issue on competencies as traveling reforms in education.
Coherence, dissonance, and personal style in learning to teach
(2017)
Concern that practical realities in classrooms will 'trump' theories has led some universities to design residency teacher education programs that maximize coherence between university coursework and field experiences. ...