Gita Steiner-khamsi
Professor
Interdisciplinary Programmes
Graduate Institute of International Studies Geneva
Switzerland
Biography
Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor at Columbia University (Teachers College), New York, has been appointed Professor at the Graduate Institute, starting in February 2017. She holds a dual academic affiliation, splitting her time between the Graduate Institute (Spring semesters) and the Network for International Policies and Cooperation in Education and Training (NORRAG), an associate programme of the Institute where she serves as Director, and Columbia University in New York (Fall semesters).
Research Interest
A past president of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), she edits two book series that deal with comparative policy studies (Routledge, Teachers College Press). She published eight books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, and reports on topics related to transnational policy borrowing and lending, global governance and education, global education industry, public-private partnership in education, or comparative research methodology. Her geographic research focus is Mongolia and Central Asia.
Publications
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Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (2015). Policy Borrowing and Lending: Building a Core Research Area of Comparative Policy Studies. [Chinese] Comparative Education Review 34: 7-14.
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Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (2016) New Directions in Policy Borrowing Research. Asia Pacific Educational Review 17: 2.
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Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (2016) Teach or Perish: The Stavka System and its Impact on the Quality of Instruction. Voprosy obrazovaniya/Educational Studies- Moscow 2: 14-39.
