World Education Research Yearbook 2015 World Education Research Yearbook Series

The World Education Research Association (WERA) is an association of major national, regional, and international specialty research associations dedicated to advancing education research as a scientific and scholarly field. WERA undertakes initiatives that are global in nature and thus transcend what any one association can accomplish in its own country, region, or area of specialization.

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Reflective of the latest trends in education research, this inaugural volume of the World Education Research Yearbook captures the diverse concepts and various arenas of inquiry that are engaging education researchers across the globe. Comprised of nine chapters, the 2015 Yearbook brings together some of the most accomplished and emerging scholars in the field, from a breadth of universities and research institutions in the United States, Europe, Australia, Asia, and South America.

The Yearbook opens with the Presidential Address given at the 4th WERA Focal Meeting by Yin Cheong Cheng, who proposes a new paradigm of educational reform to address the challenges impressed upon educators by the increased globalization of the modern world. Subsequent chapters make vivid the strengths of research with a broader work view. Chapter contributions shift the discourse through a global lens, addressing such topics as how international children?s TV can be used to further global health education and awareness, strategies for remedying low academic achievement among marginalized social and culture groups, and a new global model designed to aid countries in developing more effective indicators of quality education.

The 2015 World Education Research Yearbook is a crucial and long-awaited contribution to the field of education research. Its relevance extends beyond the borders of any single country or continent to encompass a worldwide perspective on educational developments which are of great value to researchers, educators, and students alike.

Contents

Introduction

1 Paradigm Shift in Education: Toward Third Wave Research

Yin Cheong Cheng

2 Promoting Children's Academic Performance and Social Inclusion in Marginalized Settings: Family and Community Participation in Interactive Groups and Dialogic Literary Gatherings

Rocío García-Carrión, Sandra Girbés-Peco, and Gabriela Gómez-Zepeda

3 Health and Wellness on Sesame Street: Muppets, Media, and the Development of a Global Approach to Health Education

Abigail Bucuvalas and Charlotte F. Cole

4 Assessing the Intended Participation of Young Adolescents as Future Citizens: Comparing Results from Five East Asian Countries

Wolfram Schulz, John Ainley, and Julian Fraillon

5 LGBT Equity and School Policy: Perspectives from Canada and Australia

Tania Ferfolja

6 Celebrating the Complexity and Multidimensionality of "Quality" in Education: Toward a New Process of Choosing Indicators That Measure in Ways That Better Reflect Context

Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

7 Methodological Challenges in Measuring Change in Students’ Learning Processes

Sari Lindblom-Ylänne, Anna Parpala, and Liisa Postareff

8 Decolonial and Applied Critical Leadership (ACL) in Education: International Cross-Cultural Collaboration for a New Century

Lorri J. Santamaría and Nathalia E. Jaramillo

9 Cross-National Teacher Effectiveness Research: Challenges, but also Opportunities to Reveal Differential Effects?

Gudrun Vanlaar, Leonidas Kyriakides, Machteld Vandecandelaere, Bieke De Fraine, Anastasia Panayiotou, and Jan Van Damme

Lori Diane Hill is a Visiting Scientist at the American Educational Research Association and a Faculty Associate at the University of Michigan.

Felice J. Levine is the President-Elect of WERA and Executive Director of AERA, the American Educational Research Association.