International Journal of Educational Development

2013 - 2026

Current editor(s): Stephen P Heyneman

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Volume 122, issue C, 2026

Bridging the skills gap: The role of vocational education and training in shaping youth employment in Sri Lanka

Mawela Lekamlage Udari Kumudumali Piyasena and Kazushi Takahashi

A golden ticket?: The framing of lifelong learning in education policies in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore

Joclarisse Albia and Sheng-Ju Chan

Rethinking teacher education for sustainable development: A global knowledge mapping and thematic synthesis

Chuang Yang and Yangguang Hu

Has India’s learning crisis really worsened?

Sarthak Joshi

Coupling coordination between higher education and high-quality urbanization development in China: An evolutionary perspective

Jianhui Wang, Zhiyuan Liu and Bingbing Zhang

Unequal foundations: How discipline, academic rank, social identity shape scientific productivity in Indian academia

Fullstar Lamin Gayang and S. Ravikumar

Edufragility in context of war crisis: Resilience and solidarity among the Palestinian universities

Nour Mattour and Souad Kamoun-Chouk

Who chooses English? Gender disparities in curriculum selection in Bangladesh

Rubaiya Murshed and Mohammad Riaz Uddin

Fragmented data, governance dashboard: Datafication, power, and the political economy of digital education policy

Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld, Daiani Damm Tonetto Riedner, Mauro dos Santos de Arruda and Hercules da Costa Sandim

Why do (not) academics collaborate with industry? The divergent institutional logics in Chinese research-intensive universities

Shuiyun Liu, Wenjuan Xu, Jiaqi Wang and Peter C. van der Sijde

Experiential learning in postgraduate education: Fostering professional skills and entrepreneurial mindsets

Ran Yang, Xiaoping Yang and Muhammad Salman Shabbir

Integrating sustainable development goals in higher education: A review and framework

Deblina Dutta, Lakshmi Kanth Moganti and Debajyoti Kundu

Socioeconomic achievement gap in Taiwan: The impact of COVID-19 on math performance

Tzung-Ruei Tsou

Effects of salaries on the well-being of university teachers in China

Fangmei Liu and Zimao Yang

Governing incompetence? Teacher professionalism and judicial intervention in Taiwan's education system

Chuan Chung Hsieh, Meng Ting He and Soong Hee Han

Equity’s diverse pathways: How collectivism shapes the link between home possessions and scientific literacy

Mingqi Wen, Yunbing Liu and Qingke Guo

Economic returns to education: Evidence from household consumption in Zimbabwe

Zeya Zhang, Wei Zhang and Jeffrey Alwang

Teaching quality and student learning progress during Rwanda’s Leaders in Teaching programme: A longitudinal observational study

Dawit T. Tiruneh, Phil Leonard and Pauline Rose

Beyond school resources: Unraveling the urban–rural academic achievement gap in Mainland China

Xiang Qi and Lei Zheng

An accidental guru: The making of an education warrior

Pasi Sahlberg

School-level digital support and reading achievement: Evidence from the PIRLS 2021 U.S. sample

John Baffoe and Daniel Asamoah

Pursuing academic excellence in Kazakhstan: Stakeholder perspectives and reform challenges

Aknur Zhidebekkyzy, Renata Kudaibergenova, Timur Buldybayev and Azhar Serikkaliyeva

Türkiye’s Developmentalist and Affective Reach into the Global South: Fostering Cooperation via Higher Education

Ayse Gur Geden

To be who I want to be: Understanding refugee families’ perspective of education through the human capability lens

Sohaila Isaqzai, Bree Akesson and Karen M. Frensch

Compassion-based social, emotional, and ethical learning in Urban Indian classrooms: Insights from a large-scale implementation in two major cities of Maharashtra, India

Tyralynn Frazier, Kavita Anand, Tenzin Sonam, Viveki Pasta, Rinku Gala and Nishant Lodha

The impacts of peace education: A meta-analysis

Yanni Yu, Wenzhuo Liu and Xin Meng

Shaping learning performance through artificial intelligence capability: Do cognitive competence, self-efficacy, creativity, and self-learning competence mediate the relationship?

Meghna Thakur, Akansha Chauhan and Vishal Sharma

The ‘NGOisation’ of education reform: The case of Transforming Teaching Education and Learning (T-TEL) in Ghana

Enoch Nyarkoh and Ian Hardy

Faith Leaders as Violence Prevention Partners: An Empirical Study of Professional Development for Building Campus Resilience to Hate

Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, Vikramaditya Joshi and Shengying Li

Corrigendum to “Governance matters: The moderating role of government effectiveness in the digitalization–human capital nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa” [Int. J. Educ. Dev. 121 (2026) 103506]

S. Hou, R.L. Ibrahim and A. Alomair

The returns to education and the wage effect from overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago: A pseudo-panel approach

Roshnie A. Doon and Sergio Scicchitano

Inclusive lifelong learning for adults: Institutional obligations under UNESCO's education for sustainable development framework

Joshua Ampofo, Jiacheng Li, Wen Zou and Weiwei Zhu

Changing perceptions of educational returns in low- and middle-income countries: A review of the evidence

David K. Evans and Amina Mendez Acosta

Long-term effects of free education on intergenerational income mobility: Evidence from free compulsory education reform in China

Suting Wang, Nan Zhao and Wanqing Liao

Causal returns to education

Harry Anthony Patrinos and George Psacharopoulos

Displaced time and space: The influence of parents' nonstandard work schedules on children's academic achievement

Xuejing Wu, Yichao Wu and Yu Qian

Exploring the role of generative AI in international students’ cross-cultural adaptation: A stimulus-organism-response framework approach

Xinling Zhu and Jessica Hong Yang

Volume 121, issue C, 2026

Early education and mortality outcomes: The roles of financial and economic factors among selected African countries

Saganga Mussa Kapaya and Theresia Julius Shavega

Building integrated learning opportunities for marginalized adolescent girls in Sierra Leone: Impact of the EAGER project on literacy and numeracy learning and personal competencies

Marlana Salmon-Letelier, Karla Giuliano Sarr, Andrew Trembley, Gwendolyn Heaner, Alexandra Cervini Mull, Giulia Di Filippantonio, Isabel Pearson and Johanna Arp

Accountability for learning in contexts of fragile school attendance in India

Caroline Dyer, Suraj Jacob and Archana Choksi

Shifting engagement: Education lending by the World Bank and ADB in China (1980s–2020s)

Fangyue Bao

Roma talks about their early school leaving: A case study in Greece

Vana Chiou and Alexandros Tsoutsoulas

Beyond the diploma: The untold consequences of short-cycle tertiary education on GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ronald Kipsang Mutai, Jiang Lu, Nyambura Lydiah Mukami, William Billy Chirwa, Liu Xiaoguang and Yao Zhiyou

Evaluating higher education service quality in an emerging education hub: Evidence from international students in Hainan

Junfeng Diao, Rong Huang, Xiaoqi Tang, Xinyan Ma, Shimin You, Meirong Chen, Weiyuan Gao and Xu Ding

Educating for a green future: Strategic human capital and the non-linear path to sustainability in low- and middle-income countries

Luo Li, Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim and Abdulrahman Alomair

Education and poverty: The case of street-children in urban areas of Pakistan

Muhammad Murtaza Ali and Sana Rouis Skandrani

Building civic education: The contribution of the interfaith women's movement in Indonesia

Arhanuddin Salim, Rahman Mantu and Nur Alfiyani

Equality of educational opportunities for geographically disadvantaged students: Taiwan’s Preferential University Admission System for Outlying Islands

Chen-Wei Chang

Should adolescents succeed academically to be happy? The moderating role of the welfare state in the association between perceived reading competence and subjective well-being among adolescents

Kyoung-Jun Choi

Four decades of change: The evolution of teaching styles in Nigerian science education (1983–2023)

Christian S. Ugwuanyi, Nurullah Eryilmaz and Marcus Pietsch

Structural modelling of enablers driving internationalization in indian higher education: A Fuzzy-TISM analysis

Ratnam Mishra and Sanchita Chaudhary

Governance matters: The moderating role of government effectiveness in the digitalization–human capital nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

Shanshuai Hou, Ridwan Lanre Ibrahim and Abdulrahman Alomair

School grants and education outcomes: The impacts of a non-salary budget reform in Punjab Pakistan

Min Xie and Kafeel Sarwar

The role of family educational context in modulating the effects of educational policies – The case of social promotion of primary school students in Côte d’Ivoire

Gwladys Aby

Seen, heard, inspired: How positive teacher interpersonal style fosters university aspirations in Indigenous students

Yonatan Dinku and Deirdre Howard-Wagner

The nature and implications of shadow education for displaced Syrian secondary students in Türkiye: A quantitative inquiry

Anas Hajar, Murat Özdemir, Yasin Avan and Ahmet Aypay

Is industry-university-research cooperation really a panacea for enhancing innovation quality? Evidence from Chinese firms

Laiqun Jin, Ruonan Geng, Yan Tong and Shancheng Hu

Enhancing graduate employability through extended internships in vocational higher education: Evidence from Türkiye

Atalay Çağlar, Elif Alp, Emel Çetinkaya and Oğuz Karadeniz

Digital integration in rural education: Foundations for a sustainable pedagogical model

Luis Serrano-Ardila, Rubén Baena-Navarro and Yulieth Carriazo-Regino

From streets to classrooms: Exploring urban slum children’s identity development in Jakarta’s non-formal education spaces

InJung Cho

From foundation funding to academic capitalism: Organizational strategies for interdisciplinary sustainability

Chan Aristella Lu and Jing Li

Contextual and socio‑demographic moderators of gendered parental involvement in children’s education: A comparative study of two rural communities in Bihar, India

Gideon Yeboah and Puneeta Pandey

Expanding STEM education in low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from policy reforms in Sri Lanka

Iyoma Priyadarshana

Seeking organizational shelter: The gendered teacher motivation of chinese female teachers

Yuhang Liu, Hao Wen, Jing Zhou and Yang Luo

Optimal class size and learning outcomes in Morocco: A normative-causal approach using PISA 2022 data

Lagdiri Youness and Ouazzani Touhami Naoual

Interculturality for interfaith dialogue in education: Student engagement and radicalisation prevention

R’boul, Hamza and Rachid El Yazidi

Long-term impact of early-life exposure to war logistics during the Dien Bien Phu campaign on education and development

Thi Minh Hoang and Trung Hoang

The heterogeneous effects of extracurricular tutoring on academic performance and cognitive ability among Chinese junior high school students

Boyuan Liu, Ming Li and Si Chen

Educational continuity under crisis: How school-based support professionals navigate systemic constraints

Naif Ergün and Faruk Bozdağ

Peer effects in classrooms – Evidence from random assignment

Lei Xu and Yu Zhu