To investigate the role of agents in policy and institutional change, the book draws on cross-country case studies, with a specific focus on agential actors within institutional settings and processes of entrepreneurship that facilitate isomorphism and policy change.

How children and young people experience belonging shapes their social worlds and futures. This edited collection is the first book to address how ‘belonging’ is understood, enacted and experienced among culturally and geographically diverse groups of young people in schools...

This book presents an in-depth investigation into the semantic and syntactic properties of Chinese classifiers, and conducts a comprehensive examination on the use of different quantity constructions in Mandarin Chinese. The book deals with one of the most cutting-edge themes...

Concern about responsibility and responsibilisation pervades contemporary social and political life. This edited collection examines the operation of responsibility and responsibilisation in education settings around the world, how the two concepts are brought into being...

Asia’s growing global importance means more needs to be known about its schools and their contribution to young people’s development. This Handbook, with 19 separate sections and 100 chapters, provides a comprehensive analysis of key areas including curriculum...