This article critically re-evaluates the evolution of African higher education by tracing its development across three key epochs: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. Drawing on over 120 secondary sources--including legal ordinances, policy documents, archival records, and peer-reviewed literature--the article adopts a historical-analytical…

In China, the Dalton Plan came to the attention of educators in 1921 and enjoyed its heyday in both educational discourse and practice from 1922 to 1925. Thereafter its popularity declined significantly while criticism dramatically increased. When examining the causes for this rapid growth and precipitous decline, previous research has taken the…

Schools are crying out for a robust policy agenda that takes lessons from prior efforts, aligns with what is known about how to improve schools, and keeps partisan controversies out of the classroom. Real education reform progress is possible if the focus is on strengthening public education's capability to deliver what families and communities…

China's rural rejuvenation strategy, Rural Revitalization, has brought drastic socioeconomic and educational changes to its vast rural regions. With more policy and public attention, rural schools are expected to make improvements to showcase rural development. School leaders are held accountable for anchoring rural schools in fast-changing rural…

The modernization of the educational system and the use of digital technologies contribute to the socio-economic development of the country. Continuity of education, available in the country of residence and business, is a driver of international activity. In the context of the global transformation of all sectors of life in the conditions of the…

Classroom culture is of vital significance for the accomplishment of educational objectives. This study is an examination of the differences in the impact of teacher leadership on classroom culture construction between schools within and outside the New Education Initiative (NEI) network. Its research findings reveal that teachers at the NEI…

This action-oriented guide details how school leaders can take an active role in transforming school systems so that they are truly inclusive--promoting belonging and academic success for exceptional learners and across all student subgroups. Centered around the key idea that learner variability is the norm rather than the exception, and that…

The aim of this article is to stretch spatial theorising in the field of comparative education. Among the different spatial theoretical approaches that have been explored in educational research in the last 10 years, we review social topology, spatial-temporalities, and beyond-human spatialities and how they have been used in comparative education…

In this paper, we deploy the concept of "aporia" to consider the ways in which enactments of policy become 'stuck' as policy "flows" between national and sub-national education systems. We illustrate the overlapping political, governmental and bureaucratic spheres of influence that mediate how national school reform agendas are…

Discussions on the importance of decolonising peace education have become prevalent in recent years with continuing presence of coloniality and Eurocentrism in peace education coming under sustained critiqued. In this article, we contribute to discussions on decolonising peace education by bringing it together with the notion of agonistic…

This article aims to investigate the national and transnational influences Mr. Lysimaco Ferreira da Costa had in matters concerning gymnastics. The time frame represents the period in which the educator was in charge of the Normal School of Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil, and published the document "Educational bases for the reorganisation of…

This paper describes the results from a fully integrated longitudinal mixed model study examining the nature of, changes in, and interaction between the upper secondary and higher education aspirations of Croatian pupils. The research was carried out over two academic years in which pupils approached the transition from single-structure elementary…

This empirical study aimed to introduce the concept of destruction and transformation into secondary school art education as a potential way of incorporating conceptual and contemporary artistic practices. Experts have highlighted the absence of such content in art education, emphasising the responsibility of teachers to integrate it into the…

Grant writing is an important component of academic research success across disciplines, especially in the biosciences. It also tends to be an activity that is perceived with significant anxiety and stress. Typical grant writing training programs focus on the mechanical aspects of grant writing, but what is often left out of the conversation on…

The Chinese international education landscape is dominated by nontraditional international schools that are affected by many issues, such as commercialisation, weak leadership, pedagogical challenges, faculty divides, and high turnover. Although teacher mobility in international schools has received much scholarly attention, the Chinese context…