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University of Cyprus, Cyprus
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Eleftherios Klerides is an Associate Professor of Comparative Education at the University of Cyprus and an Adjunct Faculty Professor of Education Policy at the Open University of Cyprus. Previously he was a Honorary Research Fellow of North-West University in South Africa, a Research Fellow of the American University of Beirut and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the UCL Institute of Education. Eleftherios has published widely; two books (‘Identities and education: comparative perspectives in times of crisis’, Bloomsbury 2021, with S. Carney; ‘Governing educational spaces: teaching and learning in transition’, Sense 2015, with H.G. Kotthoff), one special issue of Comparative Education (‘Mobilities and educational metamorphoses: patterns, puzzles and possibilities’, 2009, with R. Cowen), three special issues of European Education (‘Governance, the nation state and the new global order in education’, 2020, with S. Carney; ‘Governing educational spaces: historical perspectives’, 2015, with H.G. Kotthoff; ‘Neo-empires of knowledge in education’, 2014, with M. Pereyra and H.G. Kotthoff), one special issue of Comparative and International Education Review (‘Comparative education, education policy and education reforms: the case of Cyprus’) and over 40 articles and chapters in the fields of comparative education, education policy, global governance, and history of education. His main current anxiety is how to revitalize the comparative study of education with the help of international relations theories.