About the Authors
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS Sara Azevedo holds a degree in English and German. She has worked as a research assistant with the Project “Xplika – the private tutoring market, school effectiveness and students’ performance”. She has recently defended her PhD thesis, concerning the use of private tutoring in secondary and higher education, at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Email: [email protected]
Mark Bray is UNESCO Chair Professor in Comparative Education at the University of Hong Kong. He has worked at that University since 1986, prior to which he was a teacher in secondary schools in Kenya and Nigeria and at the Universities of Edinburgh, Papua New Guinea and London. Between 2006 and 2010 he took leave from Hong Kong to work in Paris as Director of UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP). E-mail: [email protected]
Michael A. Buhagiar is Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. His lecturing and research interests focus on assessment, inquiry-based learning, reflective practice and teacher education. Dr Buhagiar’s most recent publications have featured in the European Journal of Teacher Education, and in Reflective Practice. Email: [email protected]
Giovanna Campani is Professor of Intercultural Education, Gender Anthropology, and Intercultural Communication and director of the Master’s degree course on ‘Gender, citizenship and cultural pluralism’. Her research has focused on such topics as social inclusion, comparative education, sociology of migration, and gender issues. She has contributed to and coordinated several EU projects, has authored several volumes, and published widely in peer reviewed journals. Email: [email protected]
Deborah A. Chetcuti is Associate Professor in Science Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. Her research interests include assessment, inquiry based learning in science, use of drama in science and reflective practice. Her most recent publications have appeared in the International Journal of Science Education, and in Reflective Practice. Email: [email protected]
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Jorge Adelino Costa is a Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is the author of several books and articles in national and international journals. His area of teaching and research is educational administration, and his most current research projects deal with the questions of leadership and school management. He collaborates with other universities in Masters Degree and PhD programs. Email: [email protected]
Armand Faganel is Senior lecturer and Chair of Marketing and International Business at the Faculty of Management Koper, University of Primorska. His research areas are qualitative marketing research, higher education services perception, sustainable development and tourism. Email: [email protected]
Dominique Glasman is emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Savoy, in France. Research interests include extra-school help, the relationship between school and parents, the dropping-out process, and boarding schools. Email: [email protected]
Andreia Gouveia holds a Degree in Early Childhood Education and a Masters Degree in Educational Sciences. She has worked as a research assistant with the Project “Xplika International – comparative analysis of the private tutoring market in five capital cities”. She is currently working on her PhD thesis, which focuses on the complex construction of school results in Portugal. Email: [email protected]
Sarah Hartmann is a social anthropologist, Ph.D. candidate at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, and head of the EU-Middle East Forum at the German Council on Foreign Relations. She has taught at the Freie Universität Berlin, and was a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden and at the Centre d’Études et de Documentation Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ) in Cairo. Email: [email protected]
Boris Jokić is a Scientific Associate in Centre for Educational Research and Development at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb. He carried out his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, and he has co-authored a volume on private tutoring in Croatia, and coordinated a research project which led to the publication of a comparative study on the private tuition phenomenon in Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, and Georgia. E-mail: [email protected]
Michael Kassotakis is Professor of Education at the Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology of the University of Athens, in which he has served as Deputy Chairman. He has been President of the National Pedagogical Institute of Greece and of the Greek Centre for Educational Research, and Representative of
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Greece in the Education Committees of the Council of Europe and OECD. He has authored alone or with others many books and articles in Greek and international journals, which address issues related to Educational Evaluation, Vocational Counseling, Teacher Education and several aspects of the Greek Educational System. Email: [email protected]
Hülya Kosar Altinyelken is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Child Development and Education, and at the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her research engages with issues such as globalization, education policy transfer, educational reforms, pedagogy, teachers, migration and gender. She has published in journals such as Journal of Educational Policy, Comparative Education and the International Journal of Educational Development. She has recently co-edited Global Education Policy and International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Policies and Global Education Reforms and Teachers: Emerging Policies, Controversies and Issues. Email: [email protected]
Iasonas Lamprianou is Lecturer at the University of Cyprus. His professional interests focus on quantitative methods of research, measurement and analysis in social sciences, with particular attention to the field of education. He also has a special interest in sociological perspectives of such human activity as education, political participation, and trust. Email: [email protected]
Thekla Afantiti Lamprianou works as a Researcher at the Centre for Educational Research and Evaluation of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Her main research interest is in Mathematics education, and she is specialized in the use of Action Research. Email: [email protected]
André Elias Mazawi is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. He is interested in the political sociology of educational policy making, particularly with regard to the Arab region and the Mediterranean. Email: [email protected]
António Neto-Mendes is a Professor and researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He does research in the areas of sociology of education and educational administration, with a particular interest in questions concerning social construction of school excellence, educational policies and the regulation of education, both at the level of teacher’s work and of the relationship between central and local administration. Email: [email protected]
Anne-Claudine Oller carried out her doctoral studies at the University of Savoy in France, and was Research Assistant at the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement-Sciences Po in Paris, France. Her research interests include educational coaching, extra-school help, parental school support, literacy, and educational guidance. Her recent publications have appeared in Les Cahiers de la
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Recherche sur l’Education et les Savoirs, and in Éducation Comparée. Email: [email protected]
Zrinka Ristić Dedić is a Scientific Associate in the Centre for Educational Research and Development at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Zagreb, and in 2007 co-authored a book on private tutoring in Croatia. Her other research interests include educational equity, self-regulated learning, educational assessment and evaluation. Email: [email protected]
Andrea Soldo is a psychologist working as a researcher at proMENTE social research in Sarajevo at the Centre for Evaluation and the Centre for Educational Policy. Her special field of interest in the field of education focuses on inclusive education, the private tutoring phenomenon, and parental participation in education. Recent publications include The Phenomenon of Private Tutoring in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the National Survey for Participation and Representation in School-based Decision-Making – Report for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Email: [email protected]
Ronald G. Sultana is Professor of Sociology and Comparative Education at the University of Malta, where he also directs the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research. His recent work has focused on comparative analysis of policies regarding career guidance and the transition to work across the European Union, and in the Arab region. Email: [email protected]
Aysit Tansel is Professor of Economics at the Middle East Technical University, having obtained her MA from the University of Minnesota and her Ph.D. from the State University of New York. She was a visiting scholar at Yale and Cornell Universities, and is a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, and of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. Her main area of interest is labor economics with an emphasis on education. She has served on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals, such as the Review of Economics of Education, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Email: [email protected]
Anita Trnavčevič is Professor and Dean of Faculty of Management Koper, University of Primorska. She draws on qualitative research methodologies in her work on education policy, and on marketing education. Her latest publications have focused on sustainable natural and cultural heritage tourism in protected areas, on knowledge management and organisational culture in higher education institutions, and on marketing. Email: [email protected]
Alexandre Ventura is a Professor and researcher in the Department of Education at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also a consultant and an instructor in international institutions. His main interests lie in school administration and
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Athanasios Verdis is a Lecturer in educational research and evaluation in the Department of Philosophy, Education and Psychology of the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens. He teaches research methods and his work focuses on educational evaluation and statistical models, as well as on qualitative research methods and data analysis. Email: [email protected]
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