PhD Abstracts

These are abstracts of recently awarded PhDs which highlight new contributions to the field of international and comparative education. To submit an abstract, send your name, university, year awarded, thesis title, and abstract of no more than 350 words, to ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-340a9b@yraterces.

  • The deprofessionalisation of teachers in Thailand’s education reform
    Thornchanok Uerpairojkit,
    King’s College London
  • Analysing the Implementation of Cambridge International Curriculum
    Gulbahar Yilmaz,
    Ankara University
  • Parents and School Choice in Lebanon
    Tamara Al Khalili,
    University of Exeter
  • Exploring Diverse Adolescents & Youth Education Across the Displacement Linear: Education in Emergencies (EiE) Experiences and Colonial Entanglements
    Jessica Oddy,
    University of East London
  • Perceptions and experiences of urban school, home and neighbourhood learning spaces, and implications for pedagogy in Tanzanian primary schools: A comparative case study
    Rhona Brown,
    School of Education, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
  • Being Rooted and Living Globally: A critical approach to the (re)presentation of history in Social and Modern Studies textbooks
    Evelyne Payen-Jackman,
    Lancaster University
  • Discourses of incapacity and emancipation: an autoethnographic study of CPD courses delivered by Western educators in a Ugandan context
    Sharon Smith,
    University of Chester
  • The discursive and social practices of actors in Benin involved in the provision of pre-school and primary education in the context of the 2010 decentralisation policy
    Eva Bulgrin,
    School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex
  • Empathy-Based Pedagogical Approach to Global Citizenship Education: Kazakhstani Secondary Schools Context
    Natalya Hanley (née Kan),
    University College London (UCL), Institute of Education (IOE)
  • A Comparative Study of the Beliefs about and Practices of Secondary School Mathematics in England and China concerning Teacher Questioning
    Dr Wenping Zhang,
    University of Warwick
  • Essays on the Economics of Education in Developing Countries
    Lee Crawfurd,
    University of Sussex
  • An Investigation into the Transnational Identity of Chinese Student Returnees from the UK
    Suyang Wang,
    University of Nottingham