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Direct linkAbotsi, Emma; Hoechner, Hannah – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2022
Studies on migration and education have examined homeland returns as part of family strategies around acquiring desired cultural capital. However, the impact of return migration and transnational mobility on homeland educational landscapes remains under-researched. Using ethnographic data from Ghana, Senegal, the UK and the US, this paper shows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Educational Change, Immigrants
Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
Vesna Radivojevic – ProQuest LLC, 2024
School culture affects all facets of teaching and learning. Starting from individual international teachers' perspectives and their accounts relating to school culture, new insights and perspectives on the problem of practice were gained. The research focused on answering the questions: What are teachers' experiences of school culture in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reflection, School Culture, Teacher Attitudes
Washington, Janay C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation investigated the racial bias and discrimination perceived by self-identified Black teachers in international schools. The literature starts with a historical account of the racial prejudice and discrimination in the United States toward Black teachers and the founding of the first schools in North America, Asia, Africa, South…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Blacks, International Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textLehman, Clayton – Journal of English Teaching, 2022
International school educators hold various opinions about language acquisition. These opinions are often formed during their training and previous teaching experiences in their home countries. This quantitative cross-sectional survey-based study explored and compared the opinions of 283 English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Primary, and Secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
O'Malley, James E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Teacher retention is an area of importance for school leaders. Attrition rates are especially high in international schools (Hayden & Thompson, 2008). School leaders working in small West African international schools (500 students or less) face a more challenging landscape than many schools in other regions. The significance of this challenge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Principals, International Schools
Fisher, Darlene – Journal of Research in International Education, 2021
Research into what is effective leadership in different cultures provides guidance for leaders moving from one culture to another (House et al, 2014). There is a paucity of empirical research into how culture impacts effective educational leadership in culturally diverse communities, which provides the direction and focus for this study. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Trust (Psychology), Leadership Training, Cultural Differences
Erlandson, Peter; Bengtsson Lau, Mathias – Ethnography and Education, 2022
All over the world, there are schools that represent a different educational system and a different curriculum than the country these schools are situated in. Swedish Schools in turn are located in different parts of the world. The main purpose of this study is to describe and analyse some aspects of the social life at one of these schools, as…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Social Life, Correlation, African Culture
Winnard, Nigel J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Recent years have seen large-scale growth in the international school sector, with schools reporting increasing competition to recruit and retain expatriate teachers, particularly in hardship locations. Using a gap analysis framework (Clark & Estes, 2008), this study seeks to identify the knowledge, motivational, and organizational factors…
Descriptors: International Schools, Teacher Persistence, Principals, Administrator Role
Roberts, Laura; Mancuso, Steven V. – Journal of Research in International Education, 2014
This mixed-methods study of 84 job advertisements for international school leaders on six continents from 2006 to 2012 entailed both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Job advertisements were obtained from the most active recruiting agency for school leaders worldwide. Conventional and summative content analysis procedures were used to…
Descriptors: International Schools, Leadership, Recruitment, Leadership Qualities
Hirsch, Sally E. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The number of international schools and their student populations are increasing around the world. These schools are culturally diverse educational spaces, providing opportunities for cultural understanding but also cultural conflicts. Teachers working in international schools need to be able to provide culturally relevant and responsive…
Descriptors: International Schools, School Culture, Cultural Awareness, Teacher Competencies
Argento-Smith, Constance A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The specific focus of this action research study was to improve the institutional process for preservice teacher candidates in diversity awareness. A diversity workshop intervention was designed to help prepare nonminority teacher candidates to work with demographically diverse populations in P-12 classrooms. The study was conducted at a private,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Multicultural Education, Diversity (Institutional), Workshops
Benson, John – Journal of Research in International Education, 2011
This article explores chief administrator turnover in international schools. Quantitative and qualitative data from the 83 chief administrators who participated in the study suggests that the average tenure of an international school chief administrator is 3.7 years and that the main reason chief administrators leave international schools is…
Descriptors: International Schools, Administrators, Labor Turnover, Tenure
Streitwieser, Bernhard, Ed. – Symposium Books, 2014
Continuous and rapid developments in global higher education today more than ever before present new questions, greater challenges, and vast new opportunities for institutions, policy makers, scholars and students alike. This book is a collection of studies and essays by many of the leading experts in international higher education who share their…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Student Mobility, Comparative Education
Bunnell, Tristan – Comparative Education, 2008
The year 2007 was a highly significant one for "international education" in an "internationally minded school" context. It marked the fortieth anniversary of the first trial exam of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). This paper charts the rather random global growth of this programme, from it being a…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, International Schools
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