The international community is currently witnessing the highest influx of forced migration, displaced people, and refugees compared to any other time in history. More than 230 million people worldwide have fled their homes, seeking refuge elsewhere due to war and political, econ…
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This study explores the experience of becoming English teachers in two multicultural countries through narratives from preservice teachers in the United States and Malaysia. In general, the United States and Malaysia share similarities in the demographic landscapes whereby both …
Most of the research that pertains to study abroad focuses heavily on students, but not professionals who work in the field of international education. This thesis argues that a different perspective is useful to understand the growing trend of students who are studying abroad i…
Our practical context -we teach gifted fifth grade students in an International School- has greatly influenced this research. Indeed, the International Primary Years Programme (International Baccalaureate Organization, 2007) fosters transdisciplinary themes, including one intitl…
International education served a dual function in the American-Iranian relationship during the thirty-seven-year reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. On the one hand, education was the most important component to the shah's project of authoritarian development - a model of rapid…
In the current era of globalization, the world has experienced unprecedented changes compared to any era of human experience. It is in these changes that operating in the world has become an increasingly complex phenomena dictated by transnational processes. And, it is in these …
Growing evidence suggests that evaluation designs that are sensitive to cultural dimensions contribute to the validity and utilization of evaluation findings (Klitgaard, 1995; Shulha & Cousins, 1997). Program-theory-type evaluation represents a recent trend that typically involv…
In an age of globalisation, conflicting identities and cultures continue to remain a source of seemingly intractable conflict. Educative interventions are meanwhile increasing in trend among academics, politicians and multilateral aid organisations. Each regard education as a lo…
This dissertation examines the nexus of complexity theory and peace education and its implications for developing educational praxis that engages with the demands of global complexity. In this thesis, I argue that as societies become more globalized and complex (global complexit…
The purpose of this research was to explore how students developed over a four-year international higher education experience, the first longitudinal study of student development through undergraduate careers completed entirely abroad. One hundred six students representing forty…
This inquiry was prompted by a desire to understand ‘partnership working’ (DfE, 2012, p.3) with the diverse parental body of a British International School Pre-Nursery based in Bangkok. It was hypothesised that this necessitated the co-construction of a shared understanding betw…
A comparative case study of integrated schools in two regions of conflict, this study addresses the potential and limitations of education to promote individual and societal processes of change and peace building. In modern societies, education is expected to play a central func…
This dissertation addresses the interplay between the shifts in "reference societies" accompanied by the changes in foreign policy climate in a given developing country's context, on one end, and individual choices of local nationals to pursue their education in a "former ally" …
An increasing number of people in our world are growing up crossing national and cultural boundaries on a regular basis. This profoundly affects their perception of culture. Many of these individuals, whether they are American or not, depend on American international schools (AI…
Between April, 2007 and March, 2008 two teachers, one in northeastern Ohio, the other in Israel, began an uncertain collaboration in the construction of a virtual, technically-mediated interactional space for the conduct of a social studies curriculum for each of their two sixth…
An Ethiopian cluster-based in-service teacher professional development program used student-centered strategies to increase teacher knowledge and skills, thereby improving teacher pedagogy and, theoretically, increasing student achievement. This program is similar to dozens of o…
Internationally-educated nurses come from a wide range of educational programs around the world and bring a variety of skills and abilities to Canada. This study used grounded theory method to explicate the experiences of internationally-educated nurses as they began their journ…
This quantitative investigation focused on women high school principals at Jewish secular schools throughout Israel. Despite challenges, Israeli women have succeeded in obtaining over half of the principal positions at Jewish secular high schools, but the degree to which there i…
This case study of an Egyptian school sought to explore staff perceptions of which characteristics of a professional learning community, as posited by Hord (1997), were found in ABC School's culture. Educational staff (52 (100%)) completed the School Professional Staff as Learni…