Chapter 1: From Pedagogy to Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective

The idea of writing a book that integrates different perspectives about pedagogy and quality assurance in education was developed during researchers’ meetings at international ECER (European Conference on Educational Research, which is part of the European Educational Research Association (EERA)) conferences over a number of years. These annual meetings, at which all researchers presented the quality assurance of education in their countries, led to the understanding that this knowledge should be shared with other researchers around the world. The necessity of these international perspectives is strengthened nowadays, when people are relocating from one country to another, and immigrant children need to integrate in schools all over the world. Thus, an understanding of different approaches towards quality assurance based on different pedagogical approaches has become highly significant.