Tables of contents

Articles

Female traditional principals and co-principals: experiences of role conflict and job satisfaction

Ellen Wexler Eckman & Sheryl Talcott Kelber

205–219

Supporting the middle tier to engage with school-based networks: change strategies for influencing and cohering

Christopher Chapman & Mark Hadfield

221–240

The importance of interplay between school-based and networked professional development: school professionals' experiences of inter-school collaborations in learning networks

Tünde Varga-Atkins, Mark O'Brien, Diana Burton, Anne Campbell & Anne Qualter

241–272

Changing organizational culture and instructional methods in elementary schools: perceptions of teachers and professional educational consultants

Hanna Shachar, Suss Gavin & Sharan Shlomo

273–289

Darling-Hammond: the flat world and education: how America's commitment to equity will determine our future

Afra Ahmed Hersi

291–295

How do development paradigms influence education policy?

Abrar Hasan & Joop Hartog

297–306

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The effects of mathematical modeling on creative production ability and self-directed learning attitude

Sun Hee Kim & Soojin Kim

109–120

Toward pervasive knowledge building discourse: analyzing online and offline discourses of primary science learning in Singapore

Hans Lossman & Hyo-Jeong So

121–129

What makes a professional learning community possible? A case study of a Mathematics department in a junior secondary school of China

Jocelyn L. N. Wong

131–139

Family systems as predictors of career attitude maturity for Korean high school students

Sang Kil Lee & Hyun Sook Yi

141–150

Graduate students' self-reported perspectives regarding peer feedback and feedback from writing consultants

Cheryl Wei-yu Chen

151–158

The determinants of private tutoring participation and attendant expenditures in Korea

Jin Hwa Jung & Kyung Hee Lee

159–168

Globalization, China's drive for world-class universities (211 Project) and the challenges of ethnic minority higher education: the case of Yanbian university

Sheena Choi

169–178

The estimation of the IRT reliability coefficient and its lower and upper bounds, with comparisons to CTT reliability statistics

Seonghoon Kim & Leonard S. Feldt

179–188

Comparing longitudinal profile patterns of Mathematics and Reading in early child longitudinal study, kindergarten: the Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS) approach

Se-Kang Kim

189–198

University students' perceptions of a holistic care course through cooperative learning: implications for instructors and researchers

Peter Jen Der Pan, Gloria Huey-Ming Pan, Ching-Yieh Lee and Shona Shih Hua Chang

199–209

Socio-political influences on EFL motivation and attitudes: comparative surveys of Korean high school students

Tae-Young Kim

211–222

A countrywide study on factors influencing the public relations practice in higher education in Taiwan

Mu-Li Yang & Wen-Bin Chiou

223–233

Examining the practice of a reading-to-speak test task: anxiety and experience of EFL students

Heng-Tsung Danny Huang & Shao-Ting Alan Hung

235–242

Impact of stereotypes on intercultural communication: a Chinese perspective

Shi-Yong Peng

243–252

Examining the influence of subjective norm and facilitating conditions on the intention to use technology among pre-service teachers: a structural equation modeling of an extended technology acceptance model

Timothy Teo

253–262

Articles

How technological platforms reconfigure science-industry relations: the case of micro- and nanotechnology

Martina Merz & Peter Biniok

105–124

A fish out of water? Management consultants in academia

Kathia Serrano-Velarde

125–144

Virology experts in the boundary zone between science, policy and the public: a biographical analysis

Erwin van Rijswoud

145–167

Pooling resources for excellence and relevance: an evolution of universities as multi-scalar network organisations

Fumi Kitagawa

169–187

The academic spin-offs as an engine of economic transition in eastern Europe. A path-dependent approach

Ivan Tchalakov, Tihomir Mitev & Venelin Petrov

189–217

Articles

A study on the measurement of job-related stress among women academics in research universities of China

Lili Zhang

158–176

How gender shaped science and education: a history of nutritional sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries

Rima D. Apple

177–185

A cultural study of Chinese American women's self-identification and education

Qing Li

186–196

Opportunities and barriers: gendered reality in Chinese higher education

Bohong Liu & Yani Li

197–221

Cultivating an inclusive individuality: critical reflections on the idea of quality education in contemporary China

Huajun Zhang

222–237

Assessing the quality and equality of Hong Kong basic education results from PISA 2000+ to PISA 2006

Esther Sui-Chu Ho

238–257

National curriculum reform in China and England: origins, character and comparison

David Halpin

258–269

Effectiveness of professional development policies based on teachers' subjective evaluation

Donghai Zhang

270–289

Access to higher education of 25 ethnic minorities in Yunnan Province, South Western China

Jianxin Zhang & Jef C. Verhoeven

290–308