Global Perspectives on Education Research echoes the breadth and scope of education research worldwide. It features the work of established and emerging scholars from a range of universities and research institutions in Africa Europe and North America. The bookâs ten chapters are organized around four themes: Education Policy Teaching and Learning School Context and Student Outcomes and Assessment and Measurement. Each chapter offers cross-cultural transnational or comparative insights on some of the most pressing challenges and promising opportunities for improving education around the world. Across thematic areas these perspectives shape new ways of understanding context as an influence on and a framework for conceptual insights into education policy and practice at the international national and local levels. With chapters on topics including the cultural complexities of literacy the effect of socioeconomic inequality on student learning and the tension between education for global competitiveness and education for global citizenship as national policy strategies Global Perspectives on Education Research addresses issues and questions that will interest education researchers educators policy makers and societal leaders worldwide. This volume is a publication of the World Education Research Association (WERA). WERA is an association of major national regional and international specialty research associations dedicated to advancing education research as a scientific and scholarly field. WERA undertakes initiatives that are global in nature and thus transcend what any one association can accomplish in its own country region or area of specialization. . Language: English