This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016. The findings are of particular relevance to educators at all levels, from school education t…
lahe Haschemi Yekani is Professor of English and American Literature and Culture with a Focus on Postcolonial Studies at the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Haschemi Yekani is the author of Familial Feeling and The Privilege of Crisis. Magdalena Nowicka is a sociologist and Professor of Migration and Transnationalism at the Institute of Social S…
This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention
Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, is the Educational Leader in Residence and a full-time faculty member at the University of Calgary, Canada. In March 2020, she was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2020. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Integrity and the co-founder and co-editor of Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity. She has…
This open access book investigates the transnationally connected history of Arab Christian communities in Palestine during the British Mandate (1918-1948) through the lens of the birth of cultural diplomacy. Relying predominantly on unpublished sources, it examines the relationship between European cultural agendas and local identity formation processes and discusses the social and religious tr…
The papers by Jack Stenner included in this book document the technical details of an art and science of measurement that creates new entrepreneurial business opportunities. Jack brought theory, instruments, and data together in ways that are applicable not only in the context of a given test of reading or mathematics ability, but which more importantly catalyzed literacy and numeracy capital i…