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Michele Schweisfurth

Other affiliations: University of Birmingham
Bio: Michele Schweisfurth is an academic researcher from University of Glasgow. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Comparative education. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 57 publications receiving 2102 citations. Previous affiliations of Michele Schweisfurth include University of Birmingham.


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01 Jan 2010-Compare
TL;DR: This paper explored the complexities of international students' transitional experiences both in terms of their maturation and human development and their intercultural adaptation within a different educational environment and a different culture and society.
Abstract: This paper discusses the background and key findings of a two‐year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded mixed‐method research project (2006–2008) which was designed, within the context of university internationalisation, to provide an investigation of the experiences of first‐year international students during their undergraduate study at four UK higher education institutions. The research explored the complexities of international students' transitional experiences both in terms of their maturation and human development and their intercultural adaptation within a different educational environment and a different culture and society. These two types of transition interactively influenced the nature and process of students' change and development over time. Findings of the research challenge the psychological model of international students' linear intercultural adaptation and point to the presence of a complex set of shifting associations between language mastery, social interaction, persona...

365 citations

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TL;DR: Learner-centred education (LCE) has been a recurrent theme in many national education policies in the global South, and has had wide donor support through aid programmes and smaller projects and localised innovations as discussed by the authors.

332 citations

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01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Epstein this paper made comparisons between comparative education and international education and found that comparative education has developed over the last 50 years and has been used extensively in education and national development research.
Abstract: Foreword by Professor Erwin H. Epstein Introduction 1. Making comparisons 2. How comparative education has developed 3. Domains of practice and fields of inquiry in international education 4. Education and national development: An introduction to key ideas and questions 5. Comparative education: method 6. Researching education and development: Perspectives, practicalities, and ethics 7. Comparative education research: survey outcomes and their uses 8. Outcomes of comparative education: Selected themes Conclusions References

215 citations

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TL;DR: The authors analyzed Chinese learners' intercultural experiences in Chinese and British educational contexts and revealed a change process in the learners, affected by a range of inter-related personal, cultural, social, psychological and contextual factors.
Abstract: From a comparative perspective, this paper analyses Chinese learners' intercultural experiences in Chinese and British educational contexts. In the Chinese context, interview and questionnaire research was carried out in 24 universities that hosted the British Council's English teaching development programmes. The research uncovered perspectives on change in the Chinese teachers, who were the learners in this teacher training programme. In the UK, a current study is probing into the challenges Chinese learners face in adapting to the British higher education teaching and learning culture. Early results reveal a change process in the learners, affected by a range of inter-related personal, cultural, social, psychological and contextual factors. Research literature on the links between the Chinese cultural context and Chinese learning styles has provided an important basis for understanding the interface between Chinese learners and Western modes of education. However, in comparing the perspectives of Chine...

164 citations

Book
06 Mar 2013
TL;DR: One of the latest monographs from Education, Poverty and International Development Series, is the groundbreaking work of Michele Schweisfurth which is entitled Learner-centered Education in International Perspective.
Abstract: One of the latest monographs from Education, Poverty and International Development Series, is the groundbreaking work of Michele Schweisfurth which is entitled Learner-centered Education in International Perspective. A highly recommended book "for academics and post-graduates with a focus on comparative and international education" (p. i), the book is meant to feature as a contributory work to deal with "global debates about how to achieve education for all" (p. ii). The main theme of the book centers around LCE (Learner-Centered Education), a widely endorsed, yet partially debatable 21st-century concept.

160 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a critical examination of democratic theory and its implications for the civic education roles and contributions of teachers, adult educators, community development practitioners, and community organizers is presented.
Abstract: Course Description In this course, we will explore the question of the actual and potential connections between democracy and education. Our focus of attention will be placed on a critical examination of democratic theory and its implications for the civic education roles and contributions of teachers, adult educators, community development practitioners, and community organizers. We will survey and deal critically with a range of competing conceptions of democracy, variously described as classical, republican, liberal, radical, marxist, neomarxist, pragmatist, feminist, populist, pluralist, postmodern, and/or participatory. Using narrative inquiry as a means for illuminating and interpreting contemporary practice, we will analyze the implications of different conceptions of democracy for the practical work of civic education.

4,931 citations

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12 Jul 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the ecology of human development, those forces in the person's environment that affect and influence development, i.e., social, economic, and environmental factors.
Abstract: This chapter explores the ecology of human development, those forces in the person's environment that affect and influence development. Urie Bronfenbrenner's model of the human ecosystem guides the discussion, making connections between children in families and in communities and the larger society that surrounds them. The human ecosystem model is much like the study of the natural ecology, focusing on the interactions between subjects at various levels of the environment as they affect each other. The interaction between individual and environment forms the basis of an ecological approach to human development. This view sees the process of development as the expansion of the child's conception of the world and the child's ability to act on that world. Risks to development can come from both direct threats and the absence of opportunities for development. Sociocultural risk refers to the impoverishment in the child's world of essential experiences and relationships.

2,149 citations

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TL;DR: A detailed review of the education sector in Australia as in the data provided by the 2006 edition of the OECD's annual publication, 'Education at a Glance' is presented in this paper.
Abstract: A detailed review of the education sector in Australia as in the data provided by the 2006 edition of the OECD's annual publication, 'Education at a Glance' is presented. While the data has shown that in almost all OECD countries educational attainment levels are on the rise, with countries showing impressive gains in university qualifications, it also reveals that a large of share of young people still do not complete secondary school, which remains a baseline for successful entry into the labour market.

2,141 citations