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 .
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
School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex
Empathy-Based Pedagogical Approach to Global Citizenship Education: Kazakhstani Secondary Schools Context
University College London (UCL), Institute of Education (IOE)
Essays on the Economics of Education in Developing Countries
University of Sussex
An Investigation into the Transnational Identity of Chinese Student Returnees from the UK
University of Nottingham
The Politics of Competencies: policy trajectory study of the re-contextualisation of the 2009-2011 competency-based curricular reform of Mexican primary education
University of East Anglia, School of International Development
The Role of Teachers’ Beliefs in the Implementation of Learner-centred Education in India
UCL Institute of Education, London, UK
Supporting intercultural collaborations in blended and online settings: A randomised control trial of internationalised academic content
Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University
Between Bureaucrats: Education and the Making of the State in Ghana
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ensuring meaningful lifelong learning opportunities for groups at risk
University of Groningen
Educational Participation of Girls in Nepal:An Ethnographic Study of Girls’ Education in a Rural Village
Canterbury Christ Church University
The things they learned: Aspiration, uncertainty, and schooling in rural Rwanda
University of Bath, UK
National identity and European integration in secondary education: the case of Slovakia
London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Language in education policy and literacy acquisition in multilingual Uganda: a case study of the urban district of Kampala
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Global Citizenship Education: The development and application of an analytical framework using Model United Nations case studies
University College London (UCL), Institute of Education (IOE)
“Like Blood is to the Body”: The Role of Teachers in Building Liberia’s Peace
McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Separate to Unite: the Paradox of Education in Deeply Divided Societies
King’s College London, London, UK