International Journal of Comparative Education and Development: Volume 26 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Sustainable education futures

Tamara Savelyeva, Jing Liu

Developmentalism, technocracy and legitimacy crises of humanities: A Third World perspective

Sanchari Bhattacharyya, Reena Sanasam

The visible ill-effects of the developmental enterprises in the ex-colonies and the tendency towards technocratic totalitarianism, in many ways, have altered the way modern humans…

Beyond the classroom: the evolving spectrum of ESD research in Japan

Yuko Ohira

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has been robustly endorsed through policy mechanisms, prompting numerous context-specific voluntary initiatives in Japanese schools and…

Reasonable adjustment for inclusive development: a cautionary case study of Australian VET teachers’ experience

Sonal Nakar, Richard G. Bagnall

Vocational education and training (VET) in Australia has for some time been driven by an agenda of “reasonable adjustment”, in which practices are modified to ensure equitable…

Internationalization of higher education institutions: a comparative study in Taiwan and Japan

Robin Jung-Cheng Chen, Sophia Shi-Huei Ho, Futao Huang, Ying-Yan Lu

The internationalization of higher education institutions (HEIs) is the top stage of international relations among universities, and it is no longer regarded as a goal but as a…

Universities as cities of flows: decoding cross-regional university partnerships for sustainable development in China

Zhou Zhong, Jing Zong

The study conceptualises universities as “cities of flows” to examine the East-West University Partnership (EWUP) in China, which is a pioneering initiative of cross-regional…

Education for sustainability as a way-out to nurture citizens: a reframing in policy practices of Chinese higher education

Chong Xiao, Xiaoxin Du

This study examines education for sustainability (EfS) within the Chinese context, to specifically enrich the understanding on how EfS is structured and implemented to nurture…

Vedic mathematics for sustainable knowledge: a systematic literature review

Ashish Kumar, V.P. Joshith

This research lies in the domain of Vedic mathematics, and it explores the application of the related Vedic sutras in different branches of mathematics, science, education, and…

Envisioning quality education for sustainability transformation in teacher education: perspectives from an international dialogue on Sustainable Development Goal 4

Sunet Grobler, Ann-Kathrin Dittrich

The explanatory study aimed to understand the global perspective of quality education and describe transformative strategies that empower teacher educators and equip the education…

Promoting sustainability literacy for students in Thai higher education institution: a case of Siam University

Chanita Rukspollmuang, Tachagorn Chansema

The objectives of this study were (1) to explore and analyze sustainability literacy of undergraduate students and (2) to propose guidelines for promoting sustainability literacy…