We have agreed that the journal will invite and include notices of recently completed theses in the Sociology of Education. This will be an important resource for readers to follow through as well as provide the names of colleagues who are new entrants to the discipline.
This is an open invitation starting with theses completed from 2017 onwards. We would like the following information:
Name of author.
Thesis title.
Awarding university.
Degree and year.
A 200-word synopsis of the thesis (which must include an indication of overall purposes, theoretical elements, research design and method, nature of conclusions and significance for the sociology of education).
Email address.
Please forward these to Helen Oliver, BJSE Editorial Office. Email: [email protected]
We will include this call for the above information in forthcoming issues of the journal.
Executive Editors
Name of author: Yu-Chih Li
Thesis title: Comparison as Translation: Internationalisation in the International Baccalaureate and Taiwanese schooling
Awarding university: University of Queensland, Australia
Degree and year: PhD, 2017
This research investigates the internationalisation of education in the globalising world through comparing the International Baccalaureate and the internationalisation of schooling in Taiwan. The former is an international non-governmental organisation proclaiming to cultivate ‘international-mindedness’, while the latter is a national education system in a post-colonial society located in complex geopolitics. To compare the two education systems without presuming similarities in-between, the research makes theoretical and methodological contributions through proposing and employing an approach that sees comparison as translation. That is, the ideas of internationalisation in one case are used to understand and interpret the other, and vice versa. It is argued that similarities and dissimilarities of the two cases are not innate, but created through a dialogical comparative process in accordance with the researcher’s positionalities in the comparison. Through such a translative and dialogical process, the research argues that international education articulates a particular cosmopolitanism through incarnating the imagined global community, elaborating a deterritorialised multiculturalism, and developing a specific kind of mobility. The research also develops the concept of pan-Sinicisation in Taiwanese education practice, which contributes to discussion of the extended transnational educational/cultural impact of a regional great power, China, in the globalising world.
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