Global Perspectives on Education Researchechoes the breadth and scope of education research worldwide. It features the work of established and emerging scholars from a range of universities and research institutions in Africa, Europe, and North America.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - Lori Diane Hill and Felice J. Levine
• PART I Global Perspectives on Education Policy
• 1 Literacy and Language Diversity: Challenges for Education Research and Practice in the 21st Century - Ingrid Gogolin
• 2 Framing Global Education in the United States: Policy Perspectives - Laura C. Engel and Megan M. Siczek
• 3 The Education of Refugee Children: Human Rights Enactment and Educational Policy Discourses in Italy and the UK - Valentina Migliarini
• 4 Differentiation in Middle-Class Identities, Values and Responses: Parental Choice in a Working-Class, Multi-Ethnic School - Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir
• PART II Teaching and Learning
• 5 Education as a Community Project: Understanding Place-Based Learning - Wenche Rønning, Bronwen J. Cohen, and Jennifer Wood Adams
• 6 “The Children Come and Go”: How Educating Military-Connected Students Impacts the Work of School Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators - Joanna K. Garner and John A. Nunnery
• PART III School Context Links to Student Outcomes
• 7 Social Inequality in Attitudes and Behavior: The Implications of the Flemish Tracking System for Equity - Jannick Demanet, Laura Van den Broeck, and Mieke Van Houtte
• 8 A Transnational Analysis of Students’ Interests in Science and Science-Related Research Careers - George L. Wimberly
• PART IV Assessment and Measurement
• 9 Exploring Possible Effects of Differential Item Functioning on Reading Achievement across Language Subgroups: A South African Perspective - Surrette van Staden
• 10 The Conceptualization and Measurement of Student Engagement in Science: A Cross-Cultural Examination from Finland and the United States - Justina Spicer, Barbara Schneider, Katariina Salmela-Aro, and Julia Moeller
• List of Contributors