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

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134

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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6487-6883 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6950-5726, Jules, Tavis D., Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1609-385X, Nesterova, Yulia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8999, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6950-5726 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6487-6883 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-3914, Chiziwa, Symon, Odena, Oscar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-7842, Nyamulani, Opalhawaye, Mkonkholo Kamanga, Joyce, Read, Barbara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8125-8550 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Read, Barbara ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Thomas, Matthew A.M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0052-5221, Moskal, Marta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-9310 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8999 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8999 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2021) 2D Animation “Educational inequalities across neighbourhoods". [Audio]

2020

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

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

Vanderhoven, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7373-1275, Bravo, Angela, Valiente, Oscar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9590-6822, Hermannsson, Kristinn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-3914, Lowden, Kevin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1678-0665, Doyle, Lesley ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-6456, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Capsada-Munsech, Queralt ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Slade, Bonnie ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, Lynn, Pe Symaco, Lorraine and Valiente, Oscar ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-9310 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, Lynn, Pe Symaco, Lorraine, Valiente, Oscar ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, L., Pe Symaco, L., Valiente, O. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Harber, C. (Eds.) (2012) Education and Global Justice. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415693493

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

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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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Articles

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6487-6883 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Xu, Yuwei, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Read, Barbara ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Thomas, Matthew A.M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0052-5221, Moskal, Marta ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-9310 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

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

Britton, Alan, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 and Slade, Bonnie ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, Lynn, Pe Symaco, Lorraine and Valiente, Oscar ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-9310 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

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)

Gu, Qing and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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)

Barrett, Angeline, Sayed, Yusuf, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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)

Gu, Q., Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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),

Otten, M., Allwood, J., Aneas, M.A., Busch, D., Hoffman, D. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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)

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

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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.

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Books

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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

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

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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

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

Davies, L., Harber, C. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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

Davies, L., Harber, C. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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

Book Sections

Brown, Rhona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6487-6883 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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

Thomas, Matthew A.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6950-5726 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Thomas, Matthew A.M. and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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

Spiel, Christiane, Schwartzman, Simon, Busemeyer, Marius, Cloete, Nico, Drori, Gili, Lassnigg, Lorenz, Schober, Barbara, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Gu, Q. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Gu, Qing and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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 logoORCID: 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

Edited Books

Thomas, Matthew A.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6950-5726, Jules, Tavis D., Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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)

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

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

Cox, S., Dyer, C., Robinson-Pant, A. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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

Crossley, M., Broadfoot, P. and Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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

Research Reports or Papers

Osborne, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1609-385X, Nesterova, Yulia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8999, Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Hermannsson, Kristinn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9957-3914, Chiziwa, Symon, Odena, Oscar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-7842, Nyamulani, Opalhawaye, Mkonkholo Kamanga, Joyce, Read, Barbara ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8125-8550 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Nesterova, Yulia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8999 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: 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).

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

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

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)

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

Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, Lynn, Pe Symaco, Lorraine, Valiente, Oscar ORCID logoORCID: 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.

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)

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134, Davies, L., Pe Symaco, L., Valiente, O. ORCID logoORCID: 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)

Davies, L., Harber, C., Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Schweisfurth, M. ORCID logoORCID: 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.

Audio

Nesterova, Yulia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-8999 and Schweisfurth, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-4134 (2021) 2D Animation “Educational inequalities across neighbourhoods". [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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Number of items: 1.

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/)