Barbara Schulte

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University of Vienna, Austria

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Barbara Schulte is Professor in Comparative and International Education at the University of Vienna, Austria. She obtained her Dr. phil. in Education, History, and Sinology in 2007 at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, and became Docent in Education in 2012 at Lund University, Sweden. Barbara has been teaching and researching Comparative and International Education for over twenty years. Her research focuses on the global diffusion and local appropriation of educational models and programmes, both from a historical and contemporary perspective. Her publications address topics such as education, privatisation, and consumerism; new technologies/ICT, education, and techno-determinism; International Student Assessments (ISA) as instruments of governance; as well as education, aid and development, with particular focus on China. Ongoing research projects include a study of ethnic minority education in Southwest China, and the role of education in authoritarian regimes. Schulte’s most recent monograph is an introduction to comparative and international education in Swedish (with Wieland Wermke: Internationellt jämförande pedagogik, Stockholm, 2019).