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Pearce, Sarah – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2023
Across the world, the international school sector is changing at a rapid pace, having an impact on all facets of international schools, from curriculum to clientele. This article describes an emerging concept from this sector that I have termed the internationally-national school, borne from the nationally affiliated schools that currently exist…
Descriptors: International Schools, Educational Development, Educational Change, Curriculum Implementation
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Hameed, Suraiya; Lingard, Bob; Creagh, Sue – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2023
This article draws on a qualitative comparative research study of global citizenship education (GCE) in two primary schools, an international school in Singapore and an independent school in Australia. This paper focuses on the implementation of GCE within the two specific school contexts, Singapore and Australia, examining the tensions which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Elementary Schools
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Estaji, Masoomeh; Tabrizi, Sarvenaz – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
This study explored international school teachers' views and experiences on how the teachers' and students' intercultural communicative competence perceptions could be developed. In the study, nine teachers working in international schools in Iran were selected through purposive sampling to be part of a semi-structured interview. The interview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Intercultural Communication
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Poole, Adam – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
In order to address the paucity of research on Chinese teachers and to foreground their 'Other (ed)' ways of knowing and experiencing, this paper draws on interviews with 15 host country Chinese teachers from three internationalised schools in China. Specifically, this paper explores the participants' pathways into internationalised schooling.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Teacher Background, Teacher Motivation
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McIntosh, Shona; Hayden, Mary – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
Recently, increases in numbers of international schools have been fuelled by a growth in numbers of aspirational families selecting them. The perception that international education affords children access to social advantages has been established in the school choice literature, but there has yet to be an examination of this trend in relation to…
Descriptors: International Schools, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Advantaged
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Chapman, Kay – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
Where there is a demand for English-medium schooling and English academic qualifications in a former British colony such as Sri Lanka, questions about power relations and the construction of knowledge are raised. Geography is a school subject that claims to make sense of the world. In this article I propose a postcolonial theoretical framework and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, English, Geography Instruction