Transnational German Education and Comparative Education Systems

Dr Benjamin Nickl is a cultural studies researcher with an interest in popular culture studies in film, television, literature, performative and mass media. Dr Nickl also focuses on educational studies and researches in the areas of transnational cultures, German, American, and Australian transnationalisms and global transcultural dialogue, as well as transnational teaching practices in secondary and tertiary education.Dr Stefan Popenici is currently working at Charles Darwin University and is an Honorary Fellow of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He is also Associate Director of the Imaginative Education Research Group at Simon Fraser University, Canada.Dr Deane Blackler is an independent scholar who has taught at the University of Tasmania and Monash University. Dr Blackler has been a researcher of, and published on, the prose fiction of WG Sebald, English literacy, and Education.A graduate of the University of Melbourne with a Master of Education degree, she has also taught in the secondary sector in the areas of English, Literature, and LOTE, and held senior administrative positions in a number of schools. Her doctoral thesis was awarded a Research Commendation by the University of Tasmania.

“The robust impression of Germany’s transnational education provision from bilingual elementary schools to bilateral universities is a rich contribution that not only scholars of international and comparative education can enjoy. This book opens a range of viewpoints from which other countries’ TNE provision can be explored and investigated. … The Germans are on to something—and I hope international education practitioners and scholars read this book and allow it to provide them with thought-provoking impulses for their own institutional, national, and societal contexts.” (Jessica D. Schüller, Research in Comparative and International Education, September 21, 2020)

• Part I: Positioning Transnational Education in Germany.- Transnational Higher Education: Updating Terms, Definitions, and Terminology-Turkey, China, Germany.- Cross-Border Higher Education.- The Emergence of Transnationalization of German Higher Education Institutions.- Part II:Teaching Transnational German Studies across the Globe.- Outside the Nation: Taking Stock of a Sense of Duty and Diversity in German Studies Abroad.- The State of Diversity and Decolonization in North American German Studies Curricula.- Language-Culture Nexus: German Language Teaching in a Culturally Rich Environment at the Goethe Institute.- Part III:Comparative Perspectives on Education Policy and Strategies.- Early Bilingual Education: Effects and Policy Recommendations in Comparative Transnational Contexts.- Global Mobility Programs for Pre-Service Teachers and Transnational Competency Outcomes.- Oman's Educational Transnationalism: Using German Higher Education Accreditation for Role Models.