Professor Michele Schweisfurth

Professor of Comparative and International Education (Educational Leadership & Policy)

telephone: 0141 330 4445
email: Michele.Schweisfurth@glasgow.ac.uk

St Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6nh

Biography

Career

I joined the School as Professor of Comparative and International Education in January 2013 from the University of Birmingham. Originally from Canada, I have a wide range of international experience as a researcher, teacher, and advisor.

Qualifications

PhD (Education) University of Warwick
MSc (Comparative and International Education) University of Oxford
BEd University of Western Ontario
BA (English Language and Literature and French) University of Western Ontario

Research interests

I am a comparative educationist interested in the tensions between global frameworks (such as children’s rights, and notions of ‘best practice’ in teaching and learning) and local and cultural imperatives. My current and recent research takes a comparative and international perspective on:

pedagogy - especially learner-centred pedagogy as a travelling policy and practice;
democratic education and education for democracy;
global citizenship education;
the relationship between education and various forms of development, especially political development
university internationalisation and the transnational, intercultural and academic experiences of mobile students.

Publications

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2025

Brown, Rhona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6487-6883 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2025) Considering “context” in comparative and international education. In: Thomas, Matthew A. M., Jules, Tavis D., Schweisfurth, Michele and Shields, Robin (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education. Series: Bloomsbury handbooks. Bloomsbury Publishing: London, pp. 43-55. ISBN 9781350421257

Thomas, Matthew A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6950-5726, Jules, Tavis D., Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Shields, Robin (Eds.) (2025) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education. Series: Bloomsbury handbooks. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781350421257 (In Press)

Osborne, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1609-385X, Nesterova, Yulia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8999, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Roy, Shilpi and de los Reyos, Mario (2025) Learning Neighbourhoods – why they matter. PASCAL Briefing Paper 31. Documentation. PASCAL Observatory, Glasgow.

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2025) Bordering, de-bordering and re-bordering comparative and international pedagogy. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, (doi: 10.1080/03057925.2025.2459926) (Early Online Publication)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2025) What connects, works: toward epistemic humility and meaningful action. In: Polarised Logics of Pedagogy: Crises, Contexts and Classrooms in the Global South. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9781032438290

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2025) Polarised Logics of Pedagogy: Crises, Contexts and Classrooms in the Global South. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9781032438290

Thomas, Matthew A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6950-5726 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2025) Method matters: an introduction to method in comparative and international education. In: Thomas, M.A.M., Jules, T.D., Schweisfurth, M. and Shields, R. (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Method in Comparative and International Education. Bloomsbury. (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Brown, Rhona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6487-6883 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2024) Making context matter through Massey's relational space: methodological and theoretical implications for Comparative and International Education. Comparative Education Review, 68(3), pp. 469-488. (doi: 10.1086/731786)

2023

Hermannsson, Kristinn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-3914, Chiziwa, Symon, Odena, Oscar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-7842, Nyamulani, Opalhawaye, Mkonkholo Kamanga, Joyce, Read, Barbara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8125-8550 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2023) The Long-term Impact of School Performance Review (SPR) in Engaged Schools and Residual Impact in Past Schools in Malawi. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2023) Disaster didacticism: pedagogical interventions and the 'learning crisis'. International Journal of Educational Development, 96, 102707. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2022.102707)

2022

Xu, Yuwei, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Read, Barbara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8125-8550 (2022) Men’s participation in early childhood education and care (ECEC): comparative perspectives from Edinburgh, Scotland and Tianjin, China. Comparative Education, 58(3), pp. 345-363. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2022.2062950)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2022) The development discourse of "quality teachers": implications for teacher professional development. In: Menter, Ian (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 9783030595333 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-59533-3_67-1)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Thomas, Matthew A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6950-5726 and Smail, Amy (2022) Revisiting comparative pedagogy: methodologies, themes, and research communities since 2000. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 52(4), pp. 560-580. (doi: 10.1080/03057925.2020.1797475)

Wang, Sihui ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0052-5221, Moskal, Marta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-9310 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2022) The social practice of silence in intercultural classrooms at a UK university. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 52(4), pp. 600-617. (doi: 10.1080/03057925.2020.1798215)

2021

Nesterova, Yulia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8999 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2021) Neighbourhood Effects on Educational Opportunities: Insights from Bangladesh, India, and Tanzania. Documentation. GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC).

Thomas, Matthew A.M. and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2021) Constructivism and learner-centeredness in Comparative International Education: where theories meet practice. In: Jules, Tavis D., Shields, Robin and Thomas, Matthew A.M. (eds.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory in Comparative and International Education. Bloomsbury Academic: London. ISBN 9781350078765

Nesterova, Yulia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8999 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2021) 2D Animation “Educational inequalities across neighbourhoods". [Audio]

2020

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2020) Future Pedagogies: Reconciling Multifaceted Realities and Shared Visions. Documentation. UNESCO.

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2020) Edmund King (1914–2002): other schools, other ideas, other methods, and ours. In: Phillips, David (ed.) British Scholars of Comparative Education. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780429285615 (doi: 10.4324/9780429285615)

2019

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2019) Qualitative Comparative Education Research: perennial issues, new approaches and good practice. In: Suter, Larry E., Smith, Emma and Denman, Brian D. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Studies in Education. SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 9781526419460

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Elliott, Julian (2019) When ‘best practice’ meets the pedagogical nexus: recontextualisation, reframing and resilience. Comparative Education, 55(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2018.1544801)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Elliot, Julian (2019) Comparative Education [Guest Editors]. Comparative Education, 55(1),

Vanderhoven, Ellen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7373-1275, Bravo, Angela, Valiente, Oscar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9590-6822, Hermannsson, Kristinn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-3914, Lowden, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1678-0665, Doyle, Lesley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-6456, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Capsada-Munsech, Queralt ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0361-3772 (2019) YOUNG_ADULLLT Scotland: Key Messages for Scottish Policy Actors. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Britton, Alan, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Slade, Bonnie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9737-7004 (2019) Of myths and monitoring: learner-centred education as a political project in Scotland. Comparative Education, 55(1), pp. 30-46. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2018.1541667)

2018

Dimmock, C. et al. (2018) Building capacity of Vietnam schools to implement fundamental and comprehensive reforms: Designing and piloting interventions through professional development. Phase 2 Report of Research Project to The Head Foundation, Singapore, British Council, Vietnam, and University of Glasgow. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Carney, Stephen and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (Eds.) (2018) Equity In and Through Education: Changing Contexts, Consequences and Contestations. Series: Comparative and international education (Sense Publishers). Koninklije Brill NV: Leiden. ISBN 9789004366725

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, Lynn, Pe Symaco, Lorraine and Valiente, Oscar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9590-6822 (2018) Higher education, bridging capital, and developmental leadership in the Philippines: Learning to be a crossover reformer. International Journal of Educational Development, 59, pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.09.001)

Moskal, Marta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-9310 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2018) Learning, using and exchanging global competence in the context of international postgraduate mobility. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 16(1), pp. 93-105. (doi: 10.1080/14767724.2017.1387768)

Spiel, Christiane, Schwartzman, Simon, Busemeyer, Marius, Cloete, Nico, Drori, Gili, Lassnigg, Lorenz, Schober, Barbara, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Verma, Suman (2018) The contribution of education to social progress. In: International Panel on Social Progress (ed.) Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel for Social Progress. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 753-778. ISBN 9781108399661 (doi: 10.1017/9781108399661.006)

2017

France, J. et al. (2017) Impact Evaluation of Connecting Classrooms Programme. Interim Report to British Council. Project Report. Ecorys UK.

2016

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, Lynn, Pe Symaco, Lorraine, Valiente, Oscar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9590-6822 and Robles, Chelsea (2016) Developmental Leadership in the Philippines: Educational Experiences, Institutions and Networks. Research paper: 39. Other. DLP.

Bhagavatheeswaran, L. et al. (2016) The barriers and enablers to education among scheduled caste and scheduled tribe adolescent girls in northern Karnataka, South India: A qualitative study. International Journal of Educational Development, 49, pp. 262-270. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2016.04.004)

Dimmock, C. et al. (2016) Capacity building through professional development and collaborative research to enable educational reform implementation in Vietnam. Phase 1 Report of Research Project to University of Glasgow and British Council, Vietnam. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Gu, Q. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2016) Studying abroad and coming home: the experiences of Chinese students and returnees. In: A Handbook of Chinese Education. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.

2015

Gu, Qing and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2015) Transnational connections, competences and identities: experiences of Chinese international students after their return 'home'. British Educational Research Journal, 41(6), pp. 947-970. (doi: 10.1002/berj.3175)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2015) Make learning, not war. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 45(4), pp. 644-647. (doi: 10.1080/03057925.2015.1045748)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (Ed.) (2015) Fifty Years of Comparative Education. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138853331

Barrett, Angeline, Sayed, Yusuf, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Tikly, Leon (2015) Learning, pedagogy and the post-2015 education and development agenda. International Journal of Educational Development, 40, pp. 231-236. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.11.003)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2015) Learner-centred pedagogy: towards a post-2015 agenda for teaching and learning. International Journal of Educational Development, 40, pp. 259-266. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.10.011)

Gu, Qing and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2015) Transnational flows of students: in whose interest? For whose benefit? In: McGrath, Simon and Gu, Qing (eds.) Routledge Handbook of International Education and Development. Series: Routledge handbooks. Routledge: London, pp. 359-372. ISBN 9780415747547

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2015) Towards culturally-contextualised pedagogy in Africa. International Journal of Educational Development in Africa, 1(1),

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, L., Pe Symaco, L., Valiente, O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9590-6822 and Robles, C. (2015) Case Study of Developmental Leadership in Educational Experiences, Institutions and Networks. Project Report. Developmental Leadership Programme/DFAT. (Unpublished)

2014

Phillips, David and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2014) Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781441176486

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2014) Among the comparativists: ethnographic observations. Comparative Education, 50(1), pp. 102-111. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2013.872322)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2014) Data and dogma: knowledge and education governance in the global age. Comparative Education, 50(2), pp. 127-128. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2014.892754)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2014) Editorial: the 50th anniversary special issue. Comparative Education, 50(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2013.872320)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2014) Infusing global citizenship into higher education. In: Montemurro, David, Gambhir, Mira, Evans, Mark and Broad, Kathryn (eds.) Inquiry into Practice: Learning and Teaching Global Matters in Local Classrooms. OISE: Toronto, pp. 28-29. ISBN 9781928167013

2013

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2013) The comparative gaze: from telescope to microscope. Comparative Education, 49(2), pp. 121-123. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2013.777508)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2013) Learner-centred education in international perspective. Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2(1), pp. 1-8.

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2013) Learner-Centred Education in International Perspective: Whose Pedagogy for Whose Development? Series: Education, poverty and international development. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415600729

2012

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Harber, C. (Eds.) (2012) Education and Global Justice. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415693493

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2012) Are sojourners natural comparativists? Critical perspectives on the learning experiences of international students. Research in Comparative and International Education, 7(1), pp. 81-89. (doi: 10.2304/rcie.2012.7.1.81)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2012) Beyond converging agendas in education. Comparative Education, 48(3), pp. 281-282. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2012.702010)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2012) Comparative education. In: Arthur, J. and Peterson, A. (eds.) Routledge Companion to Education. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, UK, pp. 246-253. ISBN 9780415583466

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2012) Learner-centred education and teacher professionalism at the local-global nexus. In: Seddon, T. and Levin, J. (eds.) World Yearbook of Education 2013: Educators, Professionalism and Politics: Global Transitions, National Spaces, and Professional Project. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415529143

2011

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2011) Learner-centred education in developing country contexts: from solution to problem? International Journal of Educational Development, 31(5), pp. 425-432. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.03.005)

Grimshaw, T., Gu, Q. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2011) Rethinking University Internationalisation: Towards Transformative Change. Special Issue of the Journal Teachers and Teaching [volume editors]. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 17(6),

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2011) How did we get here? Unintended consequences in education. Comparative Education, 47(4), pp. 407-409. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2011.614070)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2011) Power, politics and process: the challenge of change in and through education. Comparative Education, 47(2), pp. 135-137. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2011.563056)

2010

Cox, S., Dyer, C., Robinson-Pant, A. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (Eds.) (2010) Children as Decision Makers in Education: Sharing Experiences Across Cultures. Continuum International: London, UK. ISBN 9780826425485

Gu, Q., Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Day, C. (2010) Learning and growing in a ‘foreign’ context: intercultural experiences of international students. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 40(1), pp. 7-23. (doi: 10.1080/03057920903115983)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2010) Constructing the local and deconstructing the global in education. Comparative Education, 46(4), pp. 407-408. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2010.519476)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2010) This year's model: international perspectives on educational aspiration and influence. Comparative Education, 46(2), pp. 109-111. (doi: 10.1080/03050061003775306)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Harber, C. (2010) Education and Global Justice. Special Issue of Educational Review [volume editors]. Educational Review, 62(3),

2009

Davies, L., Harber, C., Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Williams, C., Yamashita, H. and Cobbe, S. (2009) Education in Emergencies in South Asia: Reducing the Risks Facing Vulnerable Children. Other. United Nations Children’s Fund, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Otten, M., Allwood, J., Aneas, M.A., Busch, D., Hoffman, D. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2009) Qualitative Research in Intercultural Communication. Special Issue of Forum: Qualitative Social Research [volume editors]. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 10(1),

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Crossley, M. (2009) What lies beneath: comparative education unmasks policy, theory and assumption. Comparative Education, 45(4), pp. 457-459. (doi: 10.1080/03050060903391552)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Gu, Q. (2009) Exploring the experiences of international students in UK higher education: possibilities and limits of interculturality in university life. Intercultural Education, 20(5), pp. 463-473. (doi: 10.1080/14675980903371332)

2008

Phillips, D. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2008) Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice. Continuum: London, UK. ISBN 9781847060594

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2008) Education and democracy in the Gambia: reflections on the position of development projects in a small African state. In: Johnson, D. (ed.) The Changing Landscape of Education in Africa: Quality, Equality and Democracy. Series: Oxford studies in comparative education (19 (1)). Symposium: Oxford, UK, pp. 63-75. ISBN 9781873927113

2006

Crossley, M., Broadfoot, P. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (Eds.) (2006) Forty Years of Comparative Education: Changing Contexts, Issues, and Identities. Series: Education heritage series. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415413411

Gu, Q. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2006) Who adapts? Beyond cultural models of 'the' Chinese learner. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 19(1), pp. 74-89. (doi: 10.1080/07908310608668755)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2006) Education for global citizenship: teacher agency and curricular structure in Ontario schools. Educational Review, 58(1), pp. 41-50. (doi: 10.1080/00131910500352648)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2006) Global and cross‐national influences on education in post‐genocide Rwanda. Oxford Review of Education, 32(5), pp. 697-709. (doi: 10.1080/03054980600976510)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2006) Preparing for active citizenship: international comparisons. In: Electoral Training Commission of Korea: Participation-oriented Civic Education Contributing to Political Development. National Electoral Commission: Seoul, Korea, pp. 94-106.

2005

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2005) Learning to live together: a review of UNESCO's Associated Schools Project Network. International Review of Education, 51(2-3), pp. 219-234. (doi: 10.1007/s11159-005-3579-9)

Davies, L., Harber, C. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2005) Democratic Professional Development: A Guidebook for Supervisors and Inspectors of Teachers. Centre for International Education and Research, University of Birmingham: Birmingham, UK. ISBN 9780704425156

2004

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2004) Citizenship education and commonwealth values. In: Matlin, S. (ed.) Commonwealth Education Partnerships. Stationery Office: London, UK. ISBN 9780117032392

2002

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, L. and Harber, C. (Eds.) (2002) Learning Democracy and Citizenship: International Experiences. Symposium: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781873927298

Davies, L., Harber, C. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2002) Democracy and Authoritarianism in Education. Special Issue of Comparative Education [volume editors]. Comparative Education, 38(3),

Davies, L., Harber, C. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2002) Democracy Through Teacher Education: A Guidebook for Use with Student Teachers. Centre for International Education and Research, University of Birmingham: Birmingham, UK.

Davies, L., Harber, C. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2002) Editorial. Comparative Education, 38(3), p. 249. (doi: 10.1080/0305006022000014115)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2002) Democracy and teacher education: negotiating practice in The Gambia. Comparative Education, 38(3), pp. 303-314. (doi: 10.1080/0305006022000014160)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2002) Teachers, Democratisation and Educational Reform in Russia and South Africa. Series: Monographs in international education. Symposium: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781873927342

2000

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2000) Perspectives from the Fourth Seminar. In: Alexander, R.J., Osborn, M. and Phillips, D. (eds.) Learning From Comparing: New Directions in Comparative Educational Research [Policy, Professionals and Development]. Symposium: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781873927632

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2000) Teachers and democratic change in Russia and South Africa. Education in Russia: The Independent States and Eastern Europe, 18(1), pp. 2-8.

1999

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (1999) Coming in from the cold: a reflexive account of an outsider researching education in Russia. In: Sayer, J. (ed.) Preparing Teachers to Meet Special Educational Needs in Russia. Garant: Leuven, Belgium, pp. 41-54. ISBN 9789053508916

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (1999) Gleaning meaning from case studies in international comparison: teachers' experiences of reform in Russia and South Africa. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 29(3), pp. 331-340. (doi: 10.1080/0305792990290310)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (1999) Resilience, resistance and responsiveness: comparative and international education at UK universities. In: Alexander, R.J., Broadfoot, P. and Phillips, D. (eds.) Learning From Comparing: New Directions in Comparative Educational Research [Contexts, Classrooms and Outcomes]. Symposium: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9781873927588

1996

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (1996) Researching National Systems of Primary Education: Sources, Approaches and Cautions. Other. Centre for Research in Elementary and Primary Education, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK.

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Number of items: 90.

Articles

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Elliot, Julian (2019) Comparative Education [Guest Editors]. Comparative Education, 55(1),

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2015) Towards culturally-contextualised pedagogy in Africa. International Journal of Educational Development in Africa, 1(1),

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2014) Editorial: the 50th anniversary special issue. Comparative Education, 50(1), pp. 1-2. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2013.872320)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2013) Learner-centred education in international perspective. Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2(1), pp. 1-8.

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2012) Beyond converging agendas in education. Comparative Education, 48(3), pp. 281-282. (doi: 10.1080/03050068.2012.702010)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Harber, C. (2010) Education and Global Justice. Special Issue of Educational Review [volume editors]. Educational Review, 62(3),

Davies, L., Harber, C. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2002) Editorial. Comparative Education, 38(3), p. 249. (doi: 10.1080/0305006022000014115)

Books

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2025) Polarised Logics of Pedagogy: Crises, Contexts and Classrooms in the Global South. Routledge: New York. ISBN 9781032438290

Book Sections

Edited Books

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (Ed.) (2015) Fifty Years of Comparative Education. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138853331

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Harber, C. (Eds.) (2012) Education and Global Justice. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415693493

Research Reports or Papers

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2020) Future Pedagogies: Reconciling Multifaceted Realities and Shared Visions. Documentation. UNESCO.

France, J. et al. (2017) Impact Evaluation of Connecting Classrooms Programme. Interim Report to British Council. Project Report. Ecorys UK.

Audio

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Grants

Research grants and consultancies:

Improving Teaching and Learning through Continuous Professional Development in North Cyprus. (NIRAS/EU EuropAid, 2023)
Independent Review Panel Member: Girls Education Challenge. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 2020 - 2022).
Commissioned background paper, UNESCO Futures of Education: Future pedagogies: reconciling multifaceted realities and shared visions. (2020)
Member of Independent Evaluation Committee, Global Partnership for Education (World Bank, 2019-2020)
Commissioned Think Piece and webinar on Learner-Centred Education in Developing Countries (UNICEF/MottMcDonald, 2019)
Revisiting Comparative Pedagogy. (PI, BAICE, 2018)
Disadvantage and Participation Accountability Processes: theory and evidence from School Development and Management Committees in Karnataka, India. (Co-I, ESRC-DFID, 2017)
GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (Co-I, Education lead, Global Challenges Research Fund, 2017)
Government of Greenland/University of Greenland International Advisory Group on Teacher Education Reform (Governments of Denmark and Greenland, pro bono, 2017)
Examining Gender in Higher Education (EGHE): STEM and beyond. A UK-African Countries Network (Co-I, Global Challenges Research Fund, 2016)
Evaluation: Connecting Classrooms. (British Council, 2016)
Synthesis: the Relationship between Higher Education and Developmental Leadership. (PI, DLP/Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2016)
Young Adulllt: Policies Supporting Young People in their Life Course (co-I, EU Horizon 2020, 2016)
Case Study of Developmental Leadership in The Philippines: Educational Experiences, Institutions and Networks (PI, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2014)
Developmental Leadership Programme consultancy (feedback on Ghana case study) (AusAID 2013)
Evaluation of the International Fellowship and Networking Schemes (PI, ESRC 2011)
Options for Education Research under DFID’s New Research Strategy (Co-I, DFID 2009)
Rethinking the Needs of International Students: a critique of university internationalisation (PI, ESRC seminar series 2008-10)
The Impact of UK Educational Experiences on Chinese Returnees’ Lives and Careers (Co-I, British Academy 2008)
Global Citizenship Education as a Framework for Teaching about Diversity. Funded link with Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (PI, International Council for Canadian Studies 2008)
Education and Emergencies: impact on the vulnerable in South Asia (Co-I, UNICEF 2008)
A Comparative Study of International Students’ Intercultural Experiences (Co-I, ESRC 2006)
Children as Decision Makers (Co-I, ESRC 2006 – seminar series)
Education and Democracy in Rwanda (PI, CfBT 2005)
Sustaining Democracy in Education in The Gambia through the Professional Development of Inspectors (PI, CfBT 2002 – 2004)
UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network Review (Co-I, UNESCO 2002 – 2003)
Teacher Education and Democracy in The Gambia (Co-I, CfBT 2000-2002)
Education for Global Citizenship: case studies of good practice in Canadian schools (PI, Faculty Research Programme Grant, Government of Canada 2004) Visiting Scholar: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, March – April 2004.
Teachers’ Perceptions and Support Needs in Project Schools in Perm, Russia(PI, TEMPUS-TACIS 1998)
Remote Highland Schools in Lesotho, Southern Africa: constraints and the targeting of aid(PI, Overseas Development Agency 1997)
General School Provision in Perm, Russia: a case study of School 134 (PI, TEMPUS-TACIS 1996)

Supervision

I have supervised 35 students to completion over my career.

Unfortunately I am currently unable to accept new applications for supervision.

Barrett, Grace McLean
Economic and social outcomes of work-based learning across economic sectors: The case of Foundation Apprenticeships in Scotland
Dahal, Pritha
Exploring Contextually Relevant LCE Model in Nepali Schools
McQuade, Marie
Factors influencing the development of Scottish Government childcare policy from political commitment to delivery.

Teaching

I am one of the architects of the Masters in International and Comparative Education, and contribute to courses on this programme. I also do occasional sessions on the initial teacher education programme.

Research datasets

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2023

Wang, Y. P. , Kintrea, K. , Osborne, M. , Schweisfurth, M. , Mitchell, R. , Kamete, A. , Yao, J. , Stewart, A. , Ahmad, S. , Young, G., Nesterova, Y. , Everatt, D., Lynge, H., Abrahams, C., Turok, I., Scheba, A., Visagie, J., Manirakiza, V., Malonza, J., Nduwayezu, G., Mugabe, L., Nsabimana, A., Rutayisire, P., Nzayirambaho, M., Njunwa, J.K., Levira, F., Moshi, I., Msuya, I., Kundu, D., Sharma, P., Debnath, T., Roy, S., Sowgat, T., Islam, T., Shakil, I., Reyes, M., Gamboa, M., Rivera, R., Caluag, A., Manlapas, I., Racoma, D., Sun, T., Zhai, L., Li, C., Liu, Y., Wang, C., Zhang, L., Sun, X., Bhandari, R., Baffoe, G., Lawson, V. and Long, J. (2023) GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods: Household Survey and Neighbourhood Focus Group Data from Seven Asian and African Countries, 2021-2022. [Data Collection]

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Additional information

From 2019-2021, I was seconded to the UK Department for International Development for one day a week as a Senior Research Fellow on the Education Research and Education Policy Teams. I was also a member of the Independent Evaluation Committee for the Global Partnership for Education (https://www.globalpartnership.org).

Within the School of Education, I was leader of the Education Leadership and Policy Research and Teaching group 2019-2022, and University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences Champion for the Early-Career Development Programme 2018-2022. I am past Director of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change and previous Director of Internationalisation.

I am a member of the editorial board for the journals Comparative Education (past editor 2009-2015); International Journal of Educational Development; European Education: Issues and Studies; and Prospects, Quarterly Review of Comparative Education (UNESCO).

I am current President and past Chair of the British Associaton for International and Comparative Education (https://baice.ac.uk/) and past Chair of the Board of Trustees for the UK Forum for International Education and Training (https://www.ukfiet.org/).

I am a member of the International Panel on Social Progress and one of the lead authors for the Education Chapter of the Report of the IPSP (https://www.ipsp.org/)

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