| List of Contributors | ix |
| About the Volume Editor | xi |
| Preface | xiii |
| Acknowledgments | xvi |
| Introduction: Reflecting on Trends in Comparative and International Education: A Three-Year Examination of Research Publications | |
| Petrina M. Davidson, Calley Stevens Taylor, Maureen Park, Nino Dzotsenidze and Alexander W. Wiseman | 1 |
| PART I COMPARATIVE EDUCATION TRENDS AND DIRECTIONS |
| Chapter 1 Understanding Students’ Academic Engagement in Learning amid Globalising Universities | |
| Yusuke Sakurai and Kirsi Pyhältö | 31 |
| Chapter 2 Rethinking Higher Education Investment in Developing Countries | |
| Chavanne Peercy and Nanette Svenson | 39 |
| Chapter 3 Reflecting on the Research into China’s Soft Power in International Education with Comparative Perspective: The Case of Confucius Institutes | |
| Joe Tin-yau Lo and Suyan Pan | 49 |
| Chapter 4 Aid to Education: Framing Accountability Research and Its Prospects | |
| Abby Riddell | 59 |
| Chapter 5 Bridging the Policy/Practice Divide: A Focus on Policy Learning, Pedagogy, and Equality | |
| Karen Ashton | 67 |
| Chapter 6 Imperatives of Comparative and International Education: Some Reflections from the South | |
| Poonam Batra | 75 |
| Chapter 7 Adult Education under a Comparative Lens: Areas of Influence | |
| John Holford, Marcella Milana and Palle Rasmussen | 85 |
| Chapter 8 Comparative and International Education Research in China in the Context of Globalization: A Case Study of the Journal of International and Comparative Education Research | |
| Wang Yingjie and Su Yang | 95 |
| Chapter 9 Three Models of Comparative Analysis: Time, Space, and Education | |
| Luis Enrique Aguilar | 105 |
| PART II CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS |
| Chapter 10 Negotiating, Shifting, and Balancing: Research Identities in Transnational Research | |
| Stacey J. Lee, Shuning Liu and Sejung Ham | 119 |
| Chapter 11 Educational Regime Complexity: Nested Governance and Multistakeholderism in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | |
| Tavis D. Jules | 139 |
| PART III RESEARCH-TO-PRACTICE |
| Chapter 12 Schooling Inequality in South Africa: Productive Capacities and the Epistemological Divide | |
| Patricia K. Kubow | 161 |
| Chapter 13 Using or Misusing the Early Grade Reading Assessment? Examining a Measure of Payment by Results in the Girls’ Education Challenge | |
| Shirley J. Miske and Alison B. Joglekar | 187 |
| PART IV AREA STUDIES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS |
| Chapter 14 Shifting Boundaries and Education Development Discourses: Implications for Comparative and International Education in Oceania | |
| Juliana Mohok McLaughlin | 205 |
| Chapter 15 International Student Recruitment Efforts of Turkish Universities: Rationales and Strategies | |
| Enes Gök and Sedat Gümüş | 231 |
| Chapter 16 Comparative Education in Romania: Seeds of Comparative Approaches in Debating Results of International Student Assessments | |
| Roxana Maria Ghiaţău and Nicoleta Laura Popa | 257 |
| Chapter 17 Context in Comparative and International Education Studies | |
| Teklu Abate Bekele | 275 |
| About the Authors | 301 |
| Index | 311 |