Presenting a wide range of new research from World Education Research Association (WERA)-affiliated scholars pertaining to democracy and education, this volume including topics such as school readiness in Mongolia, high stakes teacher evaluation policy in Japan, and family and community involvement in global educational advocacy. This collection arrives at a time of extreme global challenges, leaving researchers, teachers, students, families and policymakers without a baseline of how to act, react and be proactive to stem the chronic flow of disruption to global education systems. These challenges require researchers worldwide to consider how evidence can support individuals and systems to buffer against extreme global health distress and conflict whilst simultaneously supporting continued functioning education systems and processes. Such processes must allow students, teachers, leaders, administrators, and members of the educational communities to retain positive self-esteem and maintain supportive relationships and systems that provide the appropriate conditions for such processes. Global Perspectives on Education Research pulls together contributions from different contexts and cultures to distil vistas and research results that can enlighten a worldwide community of researchers, education professionals and practitioners, as well as policymakers and local, national or supra-national decision makers. This text is also the ideal companion for educators and leaders alike as they navigate the uncertainty within global health and social justice.

Presenting a wide range of new research from World Education Research Association (WERA)-affiliated scholars pertaining to democracy and education, this volume including topics such as school readiness in Mongolia, high stakes teacher evaluation policy in Japan, and family and community involvement in global educational advocacy. This collection arrives at a time of extreme global challenges, leaving researchers, teachers, students, families and policymakers without a baseline of how to act, react and be proactive to stem the chronic flow of disruption to global education systems. These challenges require researchers worldwide to consider how evidence can support individuals and systems to buffer against extreme global health distress and conflict whilst simultaneously supporting continued functioning education systems and processes. Such processes must allow students, teachers, leaders, administrators, and members of the educational communities to retain positive self-esteem and maintain supportive relationships and systems that provide the appropriate conditions for such processes. Global Perspectives on Education Research pulls together contributions from different contexts and cultures to distil vistas and research results that can enlighten a worldwide community of researchers, education professionals and practitioners, as well as policymakers and local, national or supra-national decision makers. This text is also the ideal companion for educators and leaders alike as they navigate the uncertainty within global health and social justice.

"This is a splendid, sensitively written manuscript indicating reflective and dialogical thinking moving in the direction of a dialectical perspective. An important contribution is that the author(s) argue that resilience may be collective in itself, and that this idea remained under-explored." -Marie Wissing, North-West University "Ebersohn provides the overarching framework for all of the contributors by arguing for the importance of both a bottom-up, crisis management perspective and a top-down, integrative psychosocial perspective. And all of the research contributors reflect in one way or the other on the significance of using existing social institutions - especially schools - to deliver interventions to children that will provide social support, bolster coping skills, and therefore boost resilience. The traditional medical model neglects these aspects of human development, a deficiency made all that much clearer in the context of the pandemic." -From the Foreword by Peter Salovey, PhD, Yale University What new understandings concerning children and significant others in their life-worlds have become apparent because of the HIV&AIDS pandemic? This innovative book argues that new insights on education and psychosocial aspects surface when research in the realm of HIV&AIDS is viewed through a positive psychology lens. By converging in-depth exploration and description, the book pinpoints vital persons supporting children's wellbeing, and posits changed roles due to pandemic-related stressors. The significance of different education role-players (children, teachers, caregivers, community-members) is addressed in separate chapters, using pioneering theory and empirical data that are integrated with dynamic case examples, visual data and narratives. Ebersohn's edited book emphasises supportive persons and networks as buffers children access to mediate their coping when confronted by HIV&AIDS-related stressors. Throughout, the links between psychosocial support, changed roles and responsibilities, and resilience in the advent of adversity are clearly and thoughtfully demonstrated. A concluding chapter questions why and what happens to children's wellbeing when society fails to provide supportive networks and services.