ABSTRACT

In recent years, there has been increasing attention placed on international and transnational aspects of school and higher education curricula, and the different research approaches and lenses through which these issues are studied. This edited volume explores diverse perspectives and discourses of curriculum studies contributed by scholars both within and outside the "majority world". In addition, it tackles both transnational cross-border endeavours involving national governments and policy measures, and the promises, challenges and failings of those formal relationships.

The book consists of three sections. The first section provides an introduction and overviews of transnational education in connection with curriculum studies, schooling and higher education. The second section deals with transnational and international perspectives on curriculum studies, schooling and education. The final, third section highlights transnational and international perspectives on higher education.

This timely volume tackles the questions often posed by curriculum scholars and educational researchers around the possibility of a transnational approach to curriculum studies and how (and if) a common set of means can transcend national boundaries and sensitivities. It looks at the common issues and problems across nations that international and transnational curriculum and educational research work could address.

This volume will appeal to researchers and policy makers interested in transnational education and curriculum studies.

part 1|37 pages

Introduction and overview

chapter 1|19 pages

Introduction

Transnational and international perspectives in curriculum studies, schooling, and higher education

chapter 2|16 pages

Transnational curriculum inquiry

Building postcolonialist constituencies and solidarities

part 2|113 pages

Transnational and international perspectives in curriculum studies, schooling and education

chapter 3|14 pages

What makes South Korean students world-class learners?

Postcolonial analysis of their academic achievements and learning culture

chapter 4|13 pages

The transnational frontiers of Japanese education

Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and global isomorphism

chapter 5|15 pages

Investment in curricular normativity in Brazil

A critical-discursive perspective 1

chapter 6|16 pages

Reconceptualising transnational perspectives within the Australian school curriculum

A prism for the future, not a mirror of the present

chapter 7|15 pages

Environmental/sustainability education in a global context

Stories of political and disciplinary resistances

chapter 8|14 pages

Transnational meritocracy?

Parent ideologies and private tutoring

chapter 9|24 pages

Reconceptualising transnational citizenship

Migration, unconditional hospitality, and urban priority schools 1

part 3|92 pages

Transnational and international perspectives in higher education

chapter 10|17 pages

Internationalisation at home

A comparison of approaches in China and Japan

chapter 12|14 pages

Teaching and learning in transnational education contexts

Teaching English communication skills in law courses in Singapore

chapter 13|13 pages

Governance of transnational higher education in Vietnam

Issues and ways forward

chapter 14|18 pages

Decolonising the university curriculum

The what, why and how

chapter 15|11 pages

Afterwords

Opportunities and challenges for transnational and international curriculum studies, schooling, and higher education