The Editors: Liora Bresler is Professor at the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bresler was involved in a number of national and international research projects, including the National Arts Education Research Center and the College Board/Getty Center evaluation on Arts Integration in Academic Subjects. She is co-editor of the International Journal for Education and the Arts and a guest editor for international issues in Arts Education Policy Review. Bresler has been invited to give keynote speeches in five continents and has lectured in various universities throughout the world.Alexander Ardichvili is Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Resource Edu-cation, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in human resource education from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. in management from the University of Moscow. Ardichvili has published refereed articles and book chapters in the areas of human resource education, entrepreneurship, and international and cross-cultural training and development. Ardichvili has done consulting and research in numerous countries throughout the world.

«At a time when globalization stimulates such oppositional stands that it becomes the stake of presidential elections in some countries, this book offers a contextualized analysis of how globalization shapes curricula and international, educational research. It is a ‘must read’ for those who would like to explore the new mindsets of global citizenship.» (Francois Tochon, Professor and Head, Foreign Language Education, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison)«...an outstanding collection of essays showing how the terrain of educational research is being reshaped by the complex and contradictory processes of globalization. Never again will we be able to assume educational sites and processes we research to be self-contained; they are linked inextricably to the international circulation of educational ideas and ideologies, as well as of the researchers themselves.» (Fazal Rizvi, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Former Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) and Professor of Education at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)

• Contents: Earl D. Kellogg: Foreword – Liora Bresler/Alexander Ardichvili: Acknowledgments – Liora Bresler/Alexander Ardichvili: Introduction: Personal and Institutional Contexts for International Education Research – Alexander Ardichvili: Dealing with Theoretical and Methodological Paradoxes in International and Comparative Education Research: What Can We Learn from Related Disciplines? – Liora Bresler: The Interpretive Zone in International Qualitative Research – Alma Gottlieb: Deconstructing the Notion of Education: A View from West Africa – K. Peter Kuchinke: Assessing Culture: Prospects and Limitations of Quantitative Cross-National Research – Anne McKee/Robert E. Stake: Making Evaluation Democratic in a Climate of Control – Alison Mathie/Jennifer C. Greene: Honoring Difference and Dialogue in International Education and Development: Mixed-Method Frameworks for Research – Nicholas C. Burbules: The Global Context of Educational Research – Bertram C. Bruce: New Technologies and Social Change: Learning in the Global Cyber Age – Gary N. McLean: Human Resource Development as a Factor in the Inevitable Move to Globalization – Daniel J. Walsh: The Development of Self in Japanese Preschools: Negotiating Space – Michalinos Zembylas: Struggles Between Global and Local Influences: Changing Patterns of the Cypriot Elementary School Science Curriculum Development – Betty Merchant: Cross-National Transitions and Schooling: Experiences of Limited- and Non-English-Speaking Teenagers.