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The Dynamic Integrated Approach to teacher professional development: rationale and main characteristics
(2015)
This paper refers to the Dynamic Integrated Approach (DIA) towards teacher professional development, which attempts to merge research findings on teacher effectiveness and teacher professional development. The theoretical ...
On Ugliness in Words, in Politics, in Tour-ism
(2015)
Many educational theoretical approaches to cosmopolitanism tend towards an unconditional appreciation of mobility, diversity and rootlessness. The recent interest of educational philosophy in the rhizome, de-territorialization ...
(De)constructing Modalities of Thinking about Comparative Education through Video-Use
(Research in Comparative and International Education, 2015)
This paper examines the utilization of video in comparative education teaching and is shaped by two interconnected arguments. Underpinning the paper is the argument that students have certain assumptions about comparative ...
Michael A. Peter's dircursive Universalism
(Addleton Academic Publishers, 2015)
This essay discusses one aspect of Michael Peters' diverse, rich and thoughtful engagement with political challenges in postmodern times. It argues that this aspect allows us to grasp what I term "a discursive universalism" ...
How Students’ values are intertwined with decisions in a socio-scientific issue
(2015)
The present study incorporated a scaffolding decision making procedure on an authentic environmental socio-scientific issue and investigated how students' decisions are intertwined with their values. Computer-based activities ...
Global Governance in Education: A Plea for an Agenda of Shape-Shifts
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)
An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss various reports within the issue on topics including the governance of education, the Soviet university aid program in the Cold War and the conditionality of globalization.
Governing educational spaces: knowledge, teaching and learning in transition
(Sense Publishers, 2015)