An annual since 2013, the Review marks its 50th year of publication by surveying the field of comparative and international education from globally representative perspectives. The sections cover comparative education trends and directions, conceptual and methodological developments, research-to-practice, and area studies and regional developments. Among the topics are reflecting comparatively on research into China's soft power in international education: the case of Confucius Institutes, imperatives of comparative and international education: some reflections from the South, educational regime complexity: nested governance and multi-stakeholders in the fourth industrial revolution, international student recruitment efforts of Turkish universities: rationales and strategies, and comparative education in Romania: seeds of comparative approaches in debating results of international student assessments.
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Alexander W. Wiseman is Professor of Comparative and International Education in the College of Education at Lehigh University, USA. Dr. Wiseman holds a dual-degree Ph.D. in Comparative & International Education and Educational Theory & Policy from Pennsylvania State University, an M.A. in International Comparative Education from Stanford University, an M.A. in Education (and Teacher Certification) from The University of Tulsa, and a B.A. in Letters from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Wiseman conducts internationally comparative educational research using large-scale education datasets on math and science education, information and communication technology (ICT), teacher preparation, professional development and curriculum as well as school principal’s instructional leadership activity, and is the author of many research-to-practice articles and books. He serves as Senior Editor of the online journal FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education and as Series Editor for the International Perspectives on Education and Society volume series (Emerald Publishing).

Preface;  Alexander W. Wiseman