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Ewan Wright; Cong Lin; Junying Lu – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
This article investigates how the International Baccalaureate's 'global dream' for education interacts with the national priorities of governments. In mainland China, a thriving international school market has been met with tightened government control. We draw on the analytical lens of 'cosmopolitan nationalism' to demonstrate how a cosmopolitan…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Government Role, Politics of Education, Foreign Countries
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Miri Yemini; Claire Maxwell; Ewan Wright; Laura Engel; Moosung Lee – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Cosmopolitanism and nationalism are often presented in binary terms, as standing in opposition to each other, especially with regards to education. In this paper, we establish a framework for studying education policy today through the lens of a concept we have developed: 'cosmopolitan nationalism'. Many education systems around the world are…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Nationalism, Philosophy, Foreign Countries
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Moosung Lee; Youngmin Mo – Multicultural Education Review, 2023
There has been significant focus on multicultural education and particularly culturally responsive teaching (CRT), as classrooms experience an increasing cultural diversity. Within this broader context, this study explores International Baccalaureate (IB) teachers' self-efficacy in a multicultural classroom. This study compares IB teachers with…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Multicultural Education, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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John Stewart Clark – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
The impact of the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum on Chinese teachers' self-efficacy has been unknown. The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to determine the impacts of the International Baccalaureate curriculum on Chinese teachers' reports of self-efficacy. Two groups were studied, the first comprised Chinese public…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Self Efficacy, Public School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Whitmarsh, David – Journal of Research in International Education, 2022
International Mindedness (IM) is recognised as being a key component of an international education (Hill, 2015). However, IM is also acknowledged as an 'under-reported and under-researched aspect of elite [international] education' (Bunnell et al, 2020). This has led to the concept being described as 'enigmatic and under-defined' by researchers…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, International Schools, Foreign Countries, Social Capital
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Li Deng; Shaoyang Wu; Yumeng Chen; Zhengmei Peng – Educational Review, 2024
With the global expansion of International Baccalaureate (IB), tensions have emerged between IB and the national education systems. This poses challenges to international education governance in many countries. In mainland China, IB programmes have rapidly become more prevalent since their introduction in 1991. However, new policies have imposed…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Educational Development, International Education, Governance
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John Stewart Clark; Matthew Terrett – Journal of Research in International Education, 2024
National curriculum standards for different countries mean some International Baccalaureate (IB) schools must often balance IB and national standards. Literature on how schools find this balance is limited. Using a qualitative case study design, we examined the perspectives of teachers of English in a Chinese IB school that recently employed a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Standards, National Curriculum
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Bunnell, Tristan – Educational Review, 2022
The diverse arena of International Schooling concerned with schools delivering a non-local curriculum in English largely outside an English-speaking nation, has grown enormously during the current wave of globalisation. Traditionally, the arena of "International Schools" played an intended ideological and pragmatic role, albeit in a…
Descriptors: International Schools, Private Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Salimpour, Saeed; Bartlett, Sophie; Fitzgerald, Michael T.; McKinnon, David H.; Cutts, K. Ross; James, C. Renee; Miller, Scott; Danaia, Lena; Hollow, Robert P.; Cabezon, Sergio; Faye, Michel; Tomita, Akihiko; Max, Charles; de Korte, Michael; Baudouin, Cyrille; Birkenbauma, Daina; Kallery, Maria; Anjos, Sara; Wu, Qixuan; Chu, Hye-eun; Slater, Eileen; Ortiz-Gil, Amelia – Research in Science Education, 2021
Astronomy is considered by many to be a gateway science owing to its ability to inspire curiosity in everyone irrespective of age, culture, or general inclination towards science. Currently, where there is a global push to get more students engaged in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, astronomy provides an invaluable conduit to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Science Curriculum
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Poole, Adam – Journal of Research in International Education, 2020
This paper responds to Bailey and Cooker's (2019) paper entitled 'Exploring Teacher Identity in International Schools: Key Concepts for Research' in which the authors offer a typology of international school teachers based on interviews with non-qualified teachers. This paper builds upon the typology of international school teachers by offering a…
Descriptors: International Schools, Classification, Foreign Nationals, Professional Identity
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Fisher, Darlene – Journal of Research in International Education, 2021
Research into what is effective leadership in different cultures provides guidance for leaders moving from one culture to another (House et al, 2014). There is a paucity of empirical research into how culture impacts effective educational leadership in culturally diverse communities, which provides the direction and focus for this study. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Trust (Psychology), Leadership Training, Cultural Differences
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Wright, Ewan; Mulvey, Benjamin – Journal of Research in International Education, 2022
The term 'international school' encompasses a broad array of institutions offering a range of different programmes. However, the differences between these programmes have scarcely been explored in the existing literature. This article focuses on three popular international high school programmes (Advanced Levels, Advanced Placement, and…
Descriptors: International Schools, High School Students, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Wright, Ewan; Lee, Moosung; Feng, Siyuan – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2018
This paper outlines the findings of a mixed-method study of private supplementary tutoring received by students at international schools offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) in China. Phase One was an online survey of 151 IBDP graduates across 14 schools, while Phase Two included semi-structured interviews with school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Advanced Placement Programs, Mixed Methods Research
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Barabas, Cris Delatado – TESOL International Journal, 2018
This paper proposes a curriculum design and suggests some evaluation processes of a bridging preparatory English programme for Chinese learners joining the international education system in a school in southern China. Taking into consideration the contextual educational background of the learners and the desired language and social skills that the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Global Approach
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Hacking, Elisabeth Barratt; Blackmore, Chloe; Bullock, Kate; Bunnell, Tristan; Donnelly, Michael; Martin, Susan – Journal of Research in International Education, 2018
International Mindedness is an overarching construct related to multilingualism, intercultural understanding and global engagement (Hill, 2012). The concept is central to the International Baccalaureate (IB) and sits at the heart of its education policies and programmes. The aim of this research study was to examine systematically how schools…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Advanced Placement Programs, Multilingualism, Cultural Awareness
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