ProspectsPub Date : 2022-02-16DOI: 10.1007/s11125-021-09589-z
G. Nikolić, M. Cvijetić, V. Minić, Borka Vukajlović
{"title":"What kind of textbooks do we use in special schools?","authors":"G. Nikolić, M. Cvijetić, V. Minić, Borka Vukajlović","doi":"10.1007/s11125-021-09589-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-021-09589-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":"35 1","pages":"487-501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78084347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProspectsPub Date : 2022-02-16DOI: 10.1007/s11125-022-09598-6
Matthew A. Witenstein, Joanne Abdallah
{"title":"Applying the street-level bureaucracy framework for education policy discernment to curriculum and exam policies in India","authors":"Matthew A. Witenstein, Joanne Abdallah","doi":"10.1007/s11125-022-09598-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-022-09598-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":"195 1","pages":"437-452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79841862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProspectsPub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1007/s11125-021-09584-4
Anwynne Kern
{"title":"Using a combined bio-ecological and capability perspective to understand inclusive education in South Africa","authors":"Anwynne Kern","doi":"10.1007/s11125-021-09584-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-021-09584-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":"4 1","pages":"469-485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86444488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProspectsPub Date : 2022-01-20DOI: 10.1007/s11125-021-09585-3
Martyna Elerian, Emilios Solomou
{"title":"International schools, international mindedness, and the development of global citizenship: Reflections from a case study of international schools in Cyprus","authors":"Martyna Elerian, Emilios Solomou","doi":"10.1007/s11125-021-09585-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-021-09585-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86016386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProspectsPub Date : 2022-01-19DOI: 10.1007/s11125-021-09596-0
Yi Hong
{"title":"How will a conceptualized GCE curriculum function within Chinese secondary schools?","authors":"Yi Hong","doi":"10.1007/s11125-021-09596-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11125-021-09596-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Global citizenship education (GCE) advocates global interdependency and interconnectedness, encouraging students to actively defend social justice, equity, and sustainable development at both local and global levels. When putting GCE into use, educators need specifications to transform it from normative ideals into knowledge suitable for conceptual learning. This case study explores Chinese educators' views on GCE regarding operationalized intents, practices, and preparation for implementation in a curriculum. It aims to understand how the conceptualization of GCE functions as a curriculum innovation at secondary school level. Principals (<i>n</i> = 6) and teachers (<i>n</i> = 10) from six participating schools in an anonymous city in Jiangsu province were purposely sampled, providing data for the researcher in semistructured interviews. The study reveals a GCE curriculum prototype in which the intents were subject to Confucian values and Moral Education's disciplines, whereas pedagogies and instructional approaches were planned to be consistent with constructivist teaching and delivered in an authentic learning context.</p>","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767779/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39851828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProspectsPub Date : 2022-01-15DOI: 10.1007/s11125-021-09586-2
C. Johnstone, Bethany Schowengerdt
{"title":"More than skills: The importance of social and community connections in youth development","authors":"C. Johnstone, Bethany Schowengerdt","doi":"10.1007/s11125-021-09586-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-021-09586-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":"58 1","pages":"101 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90186680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProspectsPub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1007/s11125-021-09592-4
Maria del Pilar O’Cadiz, O. Pescador, D. Schugurensky, C. Torres
{"title":"Teaching values, valuing experience: A pedagogical model from the Global South to address the ethical dimension of citizenship education","authors":"Maria del Pilar O’Cadiz, O. Pescador, D. Schugurensky, C. Torres","doi":"10.1007/s11125-021-09592-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-021-09592-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73049708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProspectsPub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1007/s11125-021-09593-3
H. Le, Bich-Hang Duong
{"title":"Global citizenship education in Vietnam: Exploring contested terrains for a new ideal citizen","authors":"H. Le, Bich-Hang Duong","doi":"10.1007/s11125-021-09593-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-021-09593-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":"58 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82899896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProspectsPub Date : 2022-01-04DOI: 10.1007/s11125-021-09594-2
Evan Saperstein
{"title":"Post-pandemic citizenship: The next phase of global citizenship education.","authors":"Evan Saperstein","doi":"10.1007/s11125-021-09594-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11125-021-09594-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As globalization has grown, the concept of \"global citizenship\" has also evolved. The drive to expand citizenship beyond national borders spurred a nascent discipline known as global citizenship education (GCE). This article examines the continuum from globalization, to global citizenship, to a global pandemic (Covid-19)-and how the lessons from this growing age of globalism can serve as a blueprint for a new form of global citizenship following the pandemic, defined as \"post-pandemic citizenship\". The first part chronicles the drive toward globalization since the second half of the 20th century. The second part details the defining traits of global citizenship. The third part calls for a new form of global citizenship that should become part of GCE and be included in global-studies-related secondary-school courses and curricula in the wake of Covid-19-a so-called post-pandemic citizenship education (PPCE)-that emphasizes public health, empathy and compassion, self-sacrifice, and cooperative spirit.</p>","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8724740/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10694766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ProspectsPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s11125-022-09623-8
Margo O'Sullivan
{"title":"Teacher absenteeism, improving learning, and financial incentives for teachers.","authors":"Margo O'Sullivan","doi":"10.1007/s11125-022-09623-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-022-09623-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We know that learning is in crisis. We know that teachers are key to addressing the crisis. Yet, the significant investments in supporting teachers to improve learning have not enabled improved learning outcomes. This article examines a key reason for this: teacher absenteeism. Poor teacher motivation is highlighted as an explanation for teacher absenteeism, with poor remuneration emerging as teachers' main reason for not attending school and/or class. This article explores the use of financial incentives, which have been sidelined within the education aid architecture, to improve teacher motivation, address teacher absenteeism, and improve learning. It distils the successes and lessons learned from the research literature, which can be used to devise a framework to guide financial-incentive-focused strategies. The framework is currently informing a research-based intervention in schools in Uganda that is using a cost-effective mobile-phone-based and teacher-motivation-focused strategy and tools to improve learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":35870,"journal":{"name":"Prospects","volume":"52 3-4","pages":"343-363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9665017/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10479579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}