Introduction to the Series

• In Event: Education in global perspective: a CIES/SUNY Series workshop

Proposal

This 5 minute presentation offers an overview of the series. The Education in Global Perspective series will feature questions about educational access, equity, and quality, addressed by authors who bring their disciplinary perspectives to bear on global educational policy and practice. Books in the series will address key themes, including: educational policy and practice; learning, teaching, and schooling for individual and social development; or schooling, difference, and inequality. Studies of global educational policy may examine how similar educational reforms and discourses are implemented in different contexts. In addition, books in this series may address questions related to teaching and learning and educational development. Furthermore, there is a need to publish studies based on big data that address big-picture questions, such as the impact of schooling on civic outcomes, the relationship between schooling and violence, the equity implications of teacher preparation and distribution in developing countries, and the role of policy-relevant variables in ensuring equal educational opportunities for disadvantaged children. Books in this series may compare cross-nationally; they may feature controlled- or paired-comparisons; they may use large datasets to conduct sophisticated quantitative analyses; they may feature multi-sited ethnography; they may be in-depth case studies. They may primarily compare and contrast, or they may trace phenomena historically across sites and scales.

Authors

• M. Najeeb Shafiq, University of Pittsburgh

• Frances Vavrus, University of Minnesota