International Journal of Educational Development

2013 - 2026

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Volume 124, issue C, 2026

Industrial policy for skills: Institutional innovation in China’s vocational education — evidence from the electric vehicle sector

Siyi Ma

How does university presidential turnover affect research performance? Based on the social characteristics of double first-class university president in China

Danglun Luo, Wenhui Yang and Yuexin Huang

Teacher-led action research for transformative change in low-resource classrooms in Nepal

Janak Singh Negi

The impact of international mobility to established democracies on Russian young people’s aspirations to engage socio-politically in Russia

Tatiana Mednikova

Understanding the factors associated with youths’ NEET status in humanitarian settings in Bangladesh

Prataoy Kabya Bhowmik, Khadija Akter Sonia, Katharine Selby, Proloy Barua and Justine Howard

Promising practices to reducing school dropout in Jordanian schools: A positive deviance approach

Robert Palmer, Al Zawahreh, Sa’ed and Lama Nusair

Girls negotiating schooling after pregnancy in rural Zimbabwe

Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi, Deevia Bhana and Vimbai Sharon Matswetu

Open education, social capital and territorial justice: Challenges and opportunities from the case of Coimbra (Portugal)

Cristine Martins Gomes de Gusmao, António Manuel Rochette Cordeiro, Joaquim Luís Medeiros Alcoforado and Neferson Barbosa da Silva Ramos

Education, language, and postcolonial legacies in West African borderlands: Togolese students in Ghana

Daniel Owusu Kyereko

Beyond the average: A machine learning typology for differentiated foundational learning in Somaliland

Mukhtar Axmed Cumar, Abdisalam Hassan Muse, Mustafe Khadar Abdi, Hodo Abdikarim, Mustafe Ahmed Abdi and Jibril Abdikadir Ali

Impact of internal migration on labor market outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopia

Desalegn Nega Chalie

Quality of early childhood education in Pakistan: Insights from public, private, and TCF schools

Anushay Mazhar, Katharina Ereky-Stevens and Iram Siraj

Understanding the role of parental support and expectations in preventing grade retention in Chilean schools

Claudio Allende, Verónica López and Machteld Vandecandelaere

Like parents, like children? Intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities

Xinhui Zhao

Multilayered family involvement in university choice in Cambodia

Mami Tokuoka and Keiichi Ogawa

Digital financial inclusion and educational equity: Evidence from Chinese household survey data

Jin Peng and Meng Kang

How to promote relative and absolute educational intergenerational mobility? A global study based on interpretable machine learning

Chai Xiong, Simin Yang, Yong Chen and Yuan Liu

The effect on crime of extending the school day in secondary education: Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Santiago Garganta, Arnoldo López-Marmolejo, Maria Florencia Pinto and Joaquín Zentner

Assessing ICT integration in civic education: Barriers, enablers and practitioner perspectives in Ghana

Cosmos Kwaku Nutakor, Eric O. Osei and Patrick Swanzy

Student well-being, sense of belonging, and alienation among secondary school students in Colombia, India, and Malawi

Thomas F. Luschei, Amita Chudgar, Nancy Kendall, Tatiana Chirkina, Su Yon Choi, Aanchal Gidra, Yenny Chavarría, Thomas M. Chimwaza, Arpith Thomas Isaac, Stella Makhuva, Ida Tamara Muwa and Miriam S. Thangaraj

Cultural divergences in student creative thinking development: An exploratory analysis of PISA 2022 data

Yajing Wang

How do international schools in China promote themselves? A comparative content analysis of public WeChat posts

Adrian Golis and Junhua Mo

What school communities say—and what it predicts: A discourse-based model of dropout risk

Alina Sava, Adi Apostu, Dragoș Iliescu, Bogdan Cristescu and Șerban Andrei Zanfirescu

Volume 123, issue C, 2026

Policy field and donor game: Education reform in Ethiopia, 1970s-2020s

Tebeje Molla, Abebaw Yirga Adamu, Leul Tadesse Sidelil and Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh

COVID-19 containment, student effort and academic performance: A longitudinal analysis

Mengdi Hao

Do school quotas improve rural access to elite high schools? Evidence from a county-level city in China

Wangbei Ye and Wangqiong Ye

Returning data is not enough: Feedback, managerial beliefs and student outcomes

Cristian Macías

Place matters: Investigating neighbourhood effects on educational achievement in urban Bangladesh

Rukaya Islam, Tanjil Sowgat and Shilpi Roy

From structural access to endogenous empowerment: The role of psychological resilience in higher education quality and equity

Xudong Ma and Ziyue Ding

Education in ashes: The impact of wildfires on students’ academic performance

Ana Gabrielle Neves de Oliveira, Marcos Vinicio Wink Junior, Aline K. Dalcin and Luis Henrique Z. Paese

Modeling students' intentions toward AI-supported learning: Evidence from primary schools in the Xizang Autonomous Region of China

Na Wang, Shencheng Gan and Lei Du

Mobile phone use, rural inequality, and children’s learning in China: Longitudinal evidence

Yanan Li, Wenrui Huang, Yaowu Wu and Yingquan Song

Is non-formal accelerated education a long-term solution? Evidence from a randomized trial with displaced adolescents in Northeast Nigeria

Wael Moussa, Rafael Contreras-Gomez, Pauline McMurry, Hawa Biu, Mohammed Waziri Bularafa, Meriam Sassi and Carina Omoeva

Attendance trajectories as early predictors of school dropout: Evidence from a National Cohort in Chile

Carolina Gazmuri Barker and Nadia Siddiqui

Regional inequality in Cameroon official exams results: Does neighbourhood factors matter?

Rais Herman Poutong

Intergenerational and peer transmission of gender attitudes and their impact on educational expectations

Robert Rudolf and Valerie Sotardi

Understanding burnout in doctoral education: A Job Demands–Resources model perspective across types of university and program stages

Vrinda Acharya, Aneesha Acharya K and Mathew Thomas Gil

Evaluating the effectiveness of the medium of instruction on learning outcomes in technical subjects among Indian undergraduates: A quasi-experimental cross-over study

Deeksha Gupta, Deepti Sharda, Navdeep Kaur and Ritika Bansal

Distributed leadership’s impact on instructional practices: Mediators of self-efficacy and school innovativeness, moderated by autonomy

Hsieh, Chuan‑Chung and Anh Hoang Khau

If no one in my family has ever excelled academically, who am I?— Examining interventions to socio-cultural reproduction

Antony Fute, Mohamed Oubibi, Mgambi Msambwa Msafiri and Daniel Kangwa

Trends in income effects of education mismatch and skill mismatch among Chinese undergraduate graduates from 2018 to 2022

Genshu Lu and Xiaojuan Cheng

Structural persistence and life-stage shifts in school dropout: Evidence from Nepal's four-wave national surveys

Sambedan Koirala

Occupational prestige and teacher empowerment for preschool teachers: A moderated mediation of digital critical literacy and teacher alienation

Pi-Chun Hsu and Ru-Si Chen

The role of parental and teacher involvement on students' self-confidence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Comparing boys and girls in Kayonza (Rwanda) high schools

Dianah Mutoni, Daan Delespaul, Celine Wuyts, Veerle Draulans and Cecil Meeusen

Governing education for sustainable development in low- and middle-income countries: normative convergence and operational divergence in global education governance

Davide Agretto, Javier García Bravo, Beth Christie and María Teresa Gómez-Villarino

Access to school, choice of school and respective mobility choices in Delhi

Deepty Jain and Shabnam Khan

Parental educational investment in China: Evidence of a pro-daughter phenomenon

Mengzhu Yao and Fangbin Qiao

Laissez faire in secondary education: The case of the New York academies

Donald Vitaliano

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 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