International Journal of Comparative Education and Development: Volume 21 Issue 1

TEFL/TESOL teachers on the move: mobility and culture

Lydia Sin Ting Lam

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the story of 15 TEFL/TESOL English language teachers who spend their lives working globally.

School feeding as a social protection programme or a political largesse: a review

Issah Iddrisu, Muhideen Sayibu, Shuliang Zhao, Abdul-Rahim Ahmed, Amran Said Suleiman

In an attempt to tackle the incidence of poverty and social exclusion in the Ghanaian society, a number of social protection programmes including the school feeding programme is…

I am an internationalising teacher: A Chinese English teacher’s experiences of becoming an international teacher

Adam Poole

This paper was written in response to the tendency for the international education literature to position the international teacher in essentialist and western-centric terms. The…

Diffusion of lesson study as an educational innovation

Mitsuko Maeda, Yumiko Ono

Lesson study (LS) is a professional development approach that has been attracting attention as an educational innovation since the late 1990s. The purpose of this paper is to…

Mixed implications of private supplementary tutoring for students’ learning: Urban and rural disparities in Bangladesh

Rafsan Mahmud

Private supplementary tutoring, common in many countries, has mixed (both positive and negative) dimensions that impact student learning. Private supplementary tutoring runs…