Week 2: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Education
Spring, Joel. Globalization of Education : An Introduction. New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015. Chapter 1.
Brock, Colin and Nafsika Alexiadou. Education Around the World : A Comparative Introduction. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Chapter 5.
Week 3: Education in a Globally Competitive World
Seth Michael J. Education Fever: Society, Politics, and the Pursuit of Schooling in South Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaiʻi, 2002. (Chapter 5)
Week 4: Education, Power, and Social Class
Woronov, T.E. Class Work: Vocational Schools and China's Urban Youth. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016. Chapters 1 & 2.
Khan, Shamus Rahman. Privilege : The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. Chapters 3 & 4.
Week 5: Special Education
Eskay M., Onu V. C., Igbo J. N., Obiyo N., Ugwuanyi L. "Disability Within the African Culture." US-China Education Review B 4 (2012): 473-484.
Oreshkina, Maria. "Education of Children With Disabilities in Russia: On the Way to Integration and Inclusion." International Journal of Special Education 24.3 (2009): 110 - 120.
Week 6: Indigenous and Minority Perspectives on Education
Barnhardt, Ray. "Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Alaska Native Ways of Knowing." Anthropology & Education Quarterly 36.1 (2005): 8-23.
Ortiz, Patricio Rodolfo. "Intercultural Bilingual Education, Indigenous Knowledge and the Construction of Ethnic Identity: An Ethnography of a Mapuche School in Chile." The University of Texas at Austin, 2007. Dissertation.
Week 7: Race & Ethnicity in Education
Shimahara, N. Ken. Ivan Z. Holowinsky, Saundra Tomlinson-Clarke. Ethnicity, race, and nationality in education: a global perspective. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2001.
James, Carl. "Students “at Risk”: Stereotypes and the Schooling of Black Boys." Urban Education 47.2 (2012): 464-494.
Week 8: Language and Education in Global Comparative Perspective
Cenoz, J. and Gorter, D. "Minority Languages, State Languages, and English in European Education" in The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education (eds W. E. Wright, S. Boun and O. García).Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 473 - 483.
Zsiga, Elizabeth C., One Tlale Boyer, and Ruth Kramer. eds. Languages in Africa : multilingualism, language policy, and education. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2014. Chapter 3.
Week 9: Gender and Education in Global Comparative Perspective
Adely, Fida J. Gendered paradoxes : educating Jordanian women in nation, faith, and progress. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012. Chapter 5.
Ali, Akhtar and Muhammad Ayub Buzdar. "Parents’ Attitude Toward Daughters’ Education in Tribal Area of Dera Ghazi Khan (Pakistan)." Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry 2.1 (2011): 16-23.
Week 10: Religion and Education in Global Comparative Perspective
Adely, Fida J. Gendered paradoxes : educating Jordanian women in nation, faith, and progress. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012. Chapter 4.
Tawasil, Amina. "Towards the Ideal Revolutionary Shi’i Woman: The Howzevi (Seminarian), the Requisites of Marriage and Islamic Education in Iran." Hawwa 13.1 (2015): 99-126.