Alexander W Wiseman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1321208 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander W Wiseman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiseman |
| SIGNATURE | WISEMAN A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3674-957X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The cloak of equality in STEM education
Do gender parity and egalitarian values in STEM education mask institutionalised gender inequalities in STEM? This study uses student background questionnaire data from the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) supplemented by national level data on gender parity in educational enrolment and female participation in the STEM workforce from the United Nations and International Labor Organization to empirically examine t…
Preparing and supporting teachers of immigrant and refugee students
Teachers are vital for the integration of immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking students, however, they are not often prepared or supported to meet the needs of these students in their classrooms
Teaching refugee and forced immigrant youth
This study explores the needs and preparedness of teachers of refugees and forced immigrant (RFI) students in the United States. Research examining the role and influence of teachers on RFIs in education systems is sparse. As a result, there is a critical shortage of an evidence base and subsequent resources, strategies, and policies on teacher training and professional development in the US to support the unique academic and non-academic needs o…
Parents’ expectations for the educational attainment of their children
Comparative Perspectives on School Textbooks
Institutionalized inequities and the cloak of equality in the South African educational context
The spread of neoliberalism in the South African education system provides a template for ways that regimes co-opt the values of excellence and equality while implementing policies that contradict these values. Specifically, South Africa’s education system is “cloaked” in equality, although institutionalized inequality persists long beyond the end of the Apartheid system. Neoliberal education policies legitimize the expectation that “excellence” …
Does Inequality Stay in the Shadow? The Cross-national Effects of Educational Equity on Private Tutoring and Student Achievement
Teacher quality discourse in India
Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place
This research examines the gap between federal and state legal standards and policies related to educational provision for school-age youth detained in the United States, and secondary evidence documenting the educational services that are provided to unaccompanied im/migrant children in federal custody. The educational provision for unaccompanied youth in detention is both defined as a human right and mandated by federal and state law. But, in s…
Themes of diversity, comparison, and contextualisation over Compare’s history
The 50-year anniversary of Compare creates a moment to reflect on the trends and status of the journal itself and where it is situated in the field of comparative and international education. This article presents an examination of Compare’s articles to consider how the contents have reflected trends and changes in CIE. The results of a qualitative time-series analysis of published articles from the past five decades highlight the trends, pattern…
Using technology to break gender barriers
How does teachers’ gender influence their information and communication technology-based instruction in Saudi Arabian government schools? Using unique data collected in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2014, the analyses presented here show that male and female teachers in intermediate school classrooms differently use information and communication technology. As one of the only completely gender-separated educational systems in the world, the differing …
The Intersection of Citizenship Status, STEM Education, and Expected Labor Market Participation in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Citizenship status influences the impact of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education on the youth labor market participation in the Arabian Gulf. This research examines the relationship between citizenship status, STEM education, and expected labor market participation in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and examines the intervening effects of information and communication technology (ICT) based instruction, spe…
Comparative education research framed by neo-institutional theory
The rise in globalisation studies in comparative education places neo-institutional theory at the centre of many debates among comparative education researchers. However, uncertainty about how to interpret neo-institutional theory still persists among educational comparativists. With this uncertainty comes misinterpretation of its principles, variations and explanatory power. Two problematic misconceptions prevail: (1) the belief that the ‘world …
Representations of Islam and Arab Societies in Western Secondary Textbooks
Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the textbooks in Arab and Islamic nation-states have been carefully critiqued for any content that Westerners view as promoting hate or violence against non-Muslims. Very little has been said, however, about the portrayals of Islamic and Arab society in Western textbooks. This report investigates the perspectives and ideologies concerning representations of Islam and Arab societies in textbooks w…
Science Education Impacts on Labor Market and University Expectations of Students by Citizenship Status in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This study comparatively examines the impact of students' citizenship status on science education relative to labor market and university expectations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) provides science education teaching, learning and achievement data from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and each of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including Bahrain, Dubai…
The Impact of Student Poverty on Science Teaching and Learning
This article investigates the claim that student poverty is the strongest significant predictor of science teaching and learning, even more than school factors. To investigate this phenomenon, this study focuses on education in South Africa. South Africa is a country and educational system characterized by communities of both extreme poverty and wealth, and using cross-nationally comparative quantitative evidence, one can draw a clear distinction…
The Impact And Transformation Of Education Policy In China
Making citizens of the world
Unique cross-national data on adolescents’ civic skills, knowledge, and political attitudes are used to examine the democratic processes of modern mass schooling, effects of national political systems, and patterns of youth political socialization in 27 nations. Compared to the generally weak reported effects on mathematics and reading achievement, we find robust effects of schooling on youths’ civics knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Secondly, t…
The Uses of Evidence for Educational Policymaking
the past 150 years, educational systems have expanded and become integrally linked with economic, political, and social status in modern nation-states (see Kamens, Meyer, & Benavot, 1996). As the stakes for education have risen, so has the call for more and improved use of scientific evidence as a basis for educational policymaking (Luke, 2003; Slavin, 2002). The rise in the use of scientific evidence for educational policymaking rests on two com…
Transnational Intellectual Networks
(2009). Transnational Intellectual Networks: Forms of Academic Knowledge and the Search for Cultural Identities Christophe Charle, Jurgen Schriewer, & Peter Wagner. European Education: Vol. 41, Looking Back, Looking Forward: Continuity and Change in Scholarship on European Education (part II), pp. 93-101
The worldwide transformation of higher education
Global Trends in Educational Policy
The Worldwide Explosion of Internationalized Education Policy The History and Problems in the Making of Education Policy at the World Bank, 1960-2000 Implementing Educational Transformation Policies: Investigating Issues of Ideal Versus Real in Developing Countries Education Decentralization in Africa: Great Expectations and Unfulfilled Promises Free Primary Education in Malawi: The Practice of Global Policy in Aid-Dependent States Re-Positioning…
Global Trends in Educational Policy (International Perspectives on Education and Society)
The Intersection of Traditional and Modern Institutions in Gulf States
This analysis examines whether the unique mix of traditional and modern institutions in the Gulf region structures educational opportunity. We begin with a theoretically comparative framework, which emphasizes the blending of cultural capital differentiation with the cross-national adoption of similar models of schooling. We then use historical and cultural data to contextualize our analyses through mini-case studies aligning Gulf State-Islamic i…
Response to K. Anderson-Levitt’s Rejoinder
Anderson-Levitt raises several useful issues about our recent article on global versus national cultures, institutionalization, and comparative analysis of teaching in three nations.--In this response, we clarify some of our arguments and illustrate some of our differences in emphasis from Anderson-Levitt
Teachers’ Work
Policy debates in the U.S. are increasingly informed by use of internationally generated, comparative data. Many arguments revolve around whether or not such comparison makes “cultural sense” or whether specific educational activities that appear successful in one nation are “culturally appropriate” in another. These arguments clash with the work of anthropologists and sociologists who demonstrate that global cultural dynamics influence national …
Making citizens of the world
Unique cross-national data on adolescents’ civic skills, knowledge, and political attitudes are used to examine the democratic processes of modern mass schooling, effects of national political systems, and patterns of youth political socialization in 27 nations. Compared to the generally weak reported effects on mathematics and reading achievement, we find robust effects of schooling on youths’ civics knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Secondly, t…
Response to K. Anderson-Levitt’s Rejoinder
Anderson-Levitt raises several useful issues about our recent article on global versus national cultures, institutionalization, and comparative analysis of teaching in three nations.--In this response, we clarify some of our arguments and illustrate some of our differences in emphasis from Anderson-Levitt
Themes of diversity, comparison, and contextualisation over Compare’s history
The 50-year anniversary of Compare creates a moment to reflect on the trends and status of the journal itself and where it is situated in the field of comparative and international education. This article presents an examination of Compare’s articles to consider how the contents have reflected trends and changes in CIE. The results of a qualitative time-series analysis of published articles from the past five decades highlight the trends, pattern…
Using technology to break gender barriers
How does teachers’ gender influence their information and communication technology-based instruction in Saudi Arabian government schools? Using unique data collected in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2014, the analyses presented here show that male and female teachers in intermediate school classrooms differently use information and communication technology. As one of the only completely gender-separated educational systems in the world, the differing …
The Intersection of Traditional and Modern Institutions in Gulf States
This analysis examines whether the unique mix of traditional and modern institutions in the Gulf region structures educational opportunity. We begin with a theoretically comparative framework, which emphasizes the blending of cultural capital differentiation with the cross-national adoption of similar models of schooling. We then use historical and cultural data to contextualize our analyses through mini-case studies aligning Gulf State-Islamic i…
Worldwide Shadow Education
The growth of structured, outside-school activities for improving students’ mathematics achievement is an enduring feature of modern schooling with major policy implications. These "shadow education " activities mimic, or shadow, formal schooling processes and requirements. Using extensive cross-national data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, we examine shadow education as a macro-phenomenon of modern schooling through i…
Teachers’ Work
Policy debates in the U.S. are increasingly informed by use of internationally generated, comparative data. Many arguments revolve around whether or not such comparison makes “cultural sense” or whether specific educational activities that appear successful in one nation are “culturally appropriate” in another. These arguments clash with the work of anthropologists and sociologists who demonstrate that global cultural dynamics influence national …
Response to K. Anderson-Levitt’s Rejoinder
Anderson-Levitt raises several useful issues about our recent article on global versus national cultures, institutionalization, and comparative analysis of teaching in three nations.--In this response, we clarify some of our arguments and illustrate some of our differences in emphasis from Anderson-Levitt
The Intersection of Traditional and Modern Institutions in Gulf States
This analysis examines whether the unique mix of traditional and modern institutions in the Gulf region structures educational opportunity. We begin with a theoretically comparative framework, which emphasizes the blending of cultural capital differentiation with the cross-national adoption of similar models of schooling. We then use historical and cultural data to contextualize our analyses through mini-case studies aligning Gulf State-Islamic i…
Global Trends in Educational Policy
The Worldwide Explosion of Internationalized Education Policy The History and Problems in the Making of Education Policy at the World Bank, 1960-2000 Implementing Educational Transformation Policies: Investigating Issues of Ideal Versus Real in Developing Countries Education Decentralization in Africa: Great Expectations and Unfulfilled Promises Free Primary Education in Malawi: The Practice of Global Policy in Aid-Dependent States Re-Positioning…
Global Trends in Educational Policy (International Perspectives on Education and Society)
The worldwide transformation of higher education
Transnational Intellectual Networks
(2009). Transnational Intellectual Networks: Forms of Academic Knowledge and the Search for Cultural Identities Christophe Charle, Jurgen Schriewer, & Peter Wagner. European Education: Vol. 41, Looking Back, Looking Forward: Continuity and Change in Scholarship on European Education (part II), pp. 93-101
The Uses of Evidence for Educational Policymaking
the past 150 years, educational systems have expanded and become integrally linked with economic, political, and social status in modern nation-states (see Kamens, Meyer, & Benavot, 1996). As the stakes for education have risen, so has the call for more and improved use of scientific evidence as a basis for educational policymaking (Luke, 2003; Slavin, 2002). The rise in the use of scientific evidence for educational policymaking rests on two com…
The Impact And Transformation Of Education Policy In China
Making citizens of the world
Unique cross-national data on adolescents’ civic skills, knowledge, and political attitudes are used to examine the democratic processes of modern mass schooling, effects of national political systems, and patterns of youth political socialization in 27 nations. Compared to the generally weak reported effects on mathematics and reading achievement, we find robust effects of schooling on youths’ civics knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Secondly, t…
The Impact of Student Poverty on Science Teaching and Learning
This article investigates the claim that student poverty is the strongest significant predictor of science teaching and learning, even more than school factors. To investigate this phenomenon, this study focuses on education in South Africa. South Africa is a country and educational system characterized by communities of both extreme poverty and wealth, and using cross-nationally comparative quantitative evidence, one can draw a clear distinction…
Science Education Impacts on Labor Market and University Expectations of Students by Citizenship Status in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This study comparatively examines the impact of students' citizenship status on science education relative to labor market and university expectations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Specifically, the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) provides science education teaching, learning and achievement data from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and each of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including Bahrain, Dubai…
Comparative education research framed by neo-institutional theory
The rise in globalisation studies in comparative education places neo-institutional theory at the centre of many debates among comparative education researchers. However, uncertainty about how to interpret neo-institutional theory still persists among educational comparativists. With this uncertainty comes misinterpretation of its principles, variations and explanatory power. Two problematic misconceptions prevail: (1) the belief that the ‘world …
Representations of Islam and Arab Societies in Western Secondary Textbooks
Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the textbooks in Arab and Islamic nation-states have been carefully critiqued for any content that Westerners view as promoting hate or violence against non-Muslims. Very little has been said, however, about the portrayals of Islamic and Arab society in Western textbooks. This report investigates the perspectives and ideologies concerning representations of Islam and Arab societies in textbooks w…
The Intersection of Citizenship Status, STEM Education, and Expected Labor Market Participation in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Citizenship status influences the impact of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education on the youth labor market participation in the Arabian Gulf. This research examines the relationship between citizenship status, STEM education, and expected labor market participation in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and examines the intervening effects of information and communication technology (ICT) based instruction, spe…
Using technology to break gender barriers
How does teachers’ gender influence their information and communication technology-based instruction in Saudi Arabian government schools? Using unique data collected in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2014, the analyses presented here show that male and female teachers in intermediate school classrooms differently use information and communication technology. As one of the only completely gender-separated educational systems in the world, the differing …
Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place
This research examines the gap between federal and state legal standards and policies related to educational provision for school-age youth detained in the United States, and secondary evidence documenting the educational services that are provided to unaccompanied im/migrant children in federal custody. The educational provision for unaccompanied youth in detention is both defined as a human right and mandated by federal and state law. But, in s…
Themes of diversity, comparison, and contextualisation over Compare’s history
The 50-year anniversary of Compare creates a moment to reflect on the trends and status of the journal itself and where it is situated in the field of comparative and international education. This article presents an examination of Compare’s articles to consider how the contents have reflected trends and changes in CIE. The results of a qualitative time-series analysis of published articles from the past five decades highlight the trends, pattern…
Comparative Perspectives on School Textbooks
Institutionalized inequities and the cloak of equality in the South African educational context
The spread of neoliberalism in the South African education system provides a template for ways that regimes co-opt the values of excellence and equality while implementing policies that contradict these values. Specifically, South Africa’s education system is “cloaked” in equality, although institutionalized inequality persists long beyond the end of the Apartheid system. Neoliberal education policies legitimize the expectation that “excellence” …
Does Inequality Stay in the Shadow? The Cross-national Effects of Educational Equity on Private Tutoring and Student Achievement
Teacher quality discourse in India
Parents’ expectations for the educational attainment of their children
Preparing and supporting teachers of immigrant and refugee students
Teachers are vital for the integration of immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking students, however, they are not often prepared or supported to meet the needs of these students in their classrooms
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (8 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Mathematics education (7 works)