International Perspectives on Education and Society

ISSN: 1479-3679

Editor: Dr Alexander Wiseman
Subject: Education (view other series in this subject area)
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Editorial Objectives
Editorial Criteria
Scope/Coverage
Key Audiences
Key Benefits
About the Editor
Contact the Editorial Team
Editorial Advisory Board for Annual Review Volume
Reviews

Editorial Objectives

International Perspectives on Education and Society provides a unique synthesis of the principal developments in and contributions to the field of comparative and international education. Each volume offers an overview and critical examination of the current topics in the field, and includes state-of-the-field reviews, theory-driven syntheses of current scholarship, reports of new empirical research, and critical discussions of major topics.

Editorial Criteria

The IPES series is a blind peer-reviewed publication. Editors review all submitted chapter proposals and invite selected authors to submit complete chapter manuscripts for review. Manuscripts are sent for blind peer review to at least three external reviewers selected for their expertise in the relevant area or topic. This process ensures both the relevance and rigor of all chapters in each volume.

Scope/Coverage

An essential function of the IPES series is to provide help in making sense of the research and its application coming out of the field. The series also provides an opportunity for critical analysis of the field itself as well, which is often neglected in the periodical literature in the field. This annual review series provides a clear sense of where we have been and where we are as a field, and will offer stimulating observations about where we should be going.

Essays representing perspectives of comparative education

The inaugural issue of the Annual Review of Comparative and International Education is a forum for scholars and stakeholders to examine current trends and identify future directions in comparative and international education.

To support this process, comparative education society presidents from around the world were invited to begin the discussion by contributing essays addressing two essential questions as a foundation for this inaugural issue:

How do you define comparative and international education for your community's needs, contexts, and perspectives, and;
What emergent theories, policies, practices, development initiatives, and regional areas of study are being discussed by your society's members?

To orient the discussion, several short essays representing perspectives of comparative education society presidents from China, Brazil, France, Mexico, Spain, and the Arabian Gulf are available for review through the links provided here. The goal of this inaugural issue is to examine current perspectives and future directions for the field using these essays as a context for discussion and analysis.

Key Audiences

IPES’s audience is comprised of scholars, educators, professionals and students working in or with education around the world. All are encouraged to share their experiences and scholarship with the international audience this volume series attracts. Contributors to past volumes have been from every region of the world and affiliated with universities, schools, development organizations and policy institutes among others.

Key Benefits

The series is comprised of themed volumes as well as an annual review of the field. This is the only series dedicated to the annual synthesis and review of education from comparative and international perspectives.

About the Editor

Dr. Alexander W. Wiseman is Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education in the College of Education, Lehigh University, USA. Dr. Wiseman’s teaching and research focus on investigating and understanding global trends in education. He has edited or co-edited the International Perspectives on Education and Society volume series since 2005. Dr. Wiseman’s own scholarship serves as a motivation for his work on the series. His current projects include the implementation and analysis of national educational testing and training systems, a study of the professionalization of comparative and international education, a cross-national study of youth political socialization and an internationally comparative study of gender-segregated national school systems.

To read an interview with the Editor, please click here.

Contact the Editorial Team

Series Editor
Alexander W. Wiseman
Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA
wiseman@comparative-education.com

Publisher
Chris Hart
chart@emeraldinsight.com

Editorial Assistant
Claire Swift
cswift@emeraldinsight.com

Editorial Advisory Board for the Annual Review Volume

Monisha Bajaj
Teachers College, Columbia University
USA

David P. Baker
Penn State University
USA

Steven J. Hite
Brigham Young University
USA

Lihong Huang
NOVA, Norwegian Social Research
Norway

Nancy Kendall
University of Wisconsin, Madison
USA

Daniel Kirk
Macon State College, USA

Shirley Miske
Miske Witt Associates, St. Paul, USA

Diane Napier
University of Georgia
USA

Nikolay Popov
Sofia University
Bulgaria

Francisco O. Ramirez
Stanford University
USA

David Turner
University of Glamorgen
UK

Frances Vavrus
University of Minnesota
USA

John Weidman
University of Pittsburgh
USA

Shoko Yamada
Nagoya University
Japan

Reviews

"International Perspectives in Education offers high quality and thought provoking research, seriously advancing the literature in international and comparative education. Without a doubt this is must reading."
Professor Francisco Ramirez, Stanford University, USA

"International Perspectives on Education and Society is an extremely valuable source of information on current and important issues in an international context advancing the theoretical and methodological discussions. The remarkable readability of the contributions is related to their lucid argumentation and clear structure."
Prof. Dr Karin Amos, Universitat Tubingen, Germany

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