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Anne Schippling; Pedro Abrantes – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
Taking the example of educational biographies of alumni of an IB World School in the Lisbon region, the article aims to explore the potential of the concept of transnational educational spaces for biographical research. We focus on the biographical stage of transition to higher education as a crucial phase of students' biographies where we can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biographies, International Education, Higher Education
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Alexander Gardner-McTaggart – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This paper explores the facilitation of the emancipatory in an International Baccalaureate ("IB") context of privilege. It aligns with the idea that capitalism, even in welfare state democracies or 'do good' corporations, maintains the interests of the owners of capital. It is by nature unjust and exploitative and must conceal this…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Aesthetics, Advanced Placement Programs, Neoliberalism
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Resnik, Julia – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
This paper compares the development of International Baccalaureate (IB) schools in four different settings: Argentine, Chile, Spain and Ecuador. The global comparative approach used in this study, based on actor-network theory (ANT), allows us to analyse the connections and interactions between global actors and the plurality of national,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, International Education