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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 ...
The Schoolyard Gate: Schooling and Childhood in Global Perspective
(2005)
The spread of Western-style schooling, in spite of the very different ways in which it is practiced on the ground, means that children growing up around the globe have a more uniform experience of socialization than in the ...
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 ...
Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea
(2001)
This chapter examines ideals of “best practice” or “good teaching,” beginning from the premise that pedagogical ideals represent cultural and social constructions, not the simple discovery of scientific truth. But, if ...
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 ...
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. ...
Teachers’ Work: Comparing Ethnographies from the United States and Latin America
(2017)
The authors compare ethnographic studies of teachers' work, el trabajo docente, conducted in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, using Noblit and Hare's meta-ethnography as a guide to their analysis.
Comparing ethnographies when comparison seems impossible
(2018)
This essay examines comparison in a double sense. Focusing on ethnographies of teachers’ work in the published literature, I ask whether it is possible to compare ethnographic studies across national borders without losing ...