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This Handbook analyzes the origins, contributions, and interpretations of international education. The authors identify approaches to research that will enhance our knowledge and understanding of the field, and extend and even redraw it, on the basis of the research evidence presented. Key features includes a historical overview of the ways in which the term "international education" has been interpreted; the theoretical interpretation of international education in its current context; international education in practice: exploration of the issues in terms of students, curricula, pedagogies, and organizing formal institutions; and conceptual challenges for international education in the future.
Voices from Abroad: A Contextual Approach to Educational Research and Cultural Diversity
Voices from Abroad: A Contextual Approach to Educational Research and Cultural Diversity
The cultural diversity of an international school poses many methodological problems for researchers. A lack of cross-cultural validity, for instance, precludes many of the methods commonly used in national educational research from being applied. Part of the problem is undoubtedly due to the fact that international schools, with their mobile, culturally and linguistically diverse student body, are not homogeneous. The use of structural models as a way of understanding schools is thus limited by the absence of uniformity in the identification and measurement of inputs and outcomes. Scientific methodology is also prohibited by a lack of generalizability and the scale of comparative ...
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