Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Schulte
Department of Education
Sensengasse 3a
Room O4.10
1090 Vienna
Phone: +43 1 4277 46753
Mail: barbara.schulte@univie.ac.at
Research Areas:
- Education as national and global instrument of governance – including: deregulation, privatization, and marketization of education; PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) as policy tool
- Education in developing contexts – in particular, South-South cooperation and China’s engagement in Africa
- Education, innovation and new technologies – including the use of ICT4E (information and communication technologies for education) in impoverished/disadvantaged areas
- Education, migration and ethnic minorities, with regional focus on Southwest China
"By understanding how the school and the society interact under different circumstances across the world, we hope to contribute to greater educational quality and equality, and thereby to greater social justice." (Barbara Schulte)
u:cris - publications Prof. Barbara Schulte
Schulte B. Digital technologies for education in China: National ambitions meet local realities. In Stepan M, Duckett J, editors, Serve the people : Innovation and IT in China’s development agenda. Berlin: MERICS. 2018. (MERICS papers on China, Vol. 6).
Schulte B. Envisioned and enacted practices: educational policies and the ‘politics of use’ in schools. Journal of Curriculum Studies. 2018 Sept 3;50(5):624-637. doi: 10.1080/00220272.2018.1502812
Schulte B. Allies and competitors: Private schools and the state in China. In Steiner-Khamsi G, Draxler A, editors, The state, business and education: public-private partnerships revisited . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2018. p. 68-84. (NORRAG Series on International Education and Development).
Schulte B. Appropriating or hijacking creativity? Educational reform and creative learning in China. 2018.
Schulte B. Congested curricula and incompatible goals: the curious absence of ICT from school-based learning in China. 2018.
Schulte B. Des Kaisers neue Schulen: Bildungsreformen und der Staat in Südchina, 1901-1911 / Hajo Fröhlich, 2018. H-Soz-u-Kult Rezensionen. 2018;(2018-4-002).
Schulte B. Private schools in the people's republic of China: Development, modalities and contradictions. In Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education: Global Change and National Challenge. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. 2017. p. 115-131 doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-17104-9_8
Schulte B. China. In Trumpa S, Wittek D, Sliwka A, editors, Die Bildungssysteme der erfolgreichsten PISA-Länder : China, Finnland, Japan, Kanada und Südkorea. Münster: Waxmann Verlag. 2017. p. 21-49
Schulte B. Education & New Technologies in China: The Politics of Visions & Strategies. 2017. Digital Culture & Society , Shanghai, China.
Schulte B. Envisioned, enacted & stated practices: ‘Creativity’/’innovation’ and the social-political ecosystem of teaching. 2017. Teachers matter. But where, when and why?, Kalmar, Sweden.
Schulte B. Hochschulen Chinas: zwischen Traditionen und Reformen im Kontext der globalen Wissensökonomie. In Freimuth J, Schädler M, editors, Chinas Innovationsstrategie in der globalen Wissensökonomie : : Unternehmen, Hochschulen und Regionen im Spannungsfeld von Politik und Autonomie. Germany: Springer Gabler. 2017. p. 95-125 doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-17651-8_5
Schulte B. Lay theories in comparative research. 2017. 9th Annual ADI Conference, Copenhagen , Denmark.
Schulte B. Strategiskt lånande: John Dewey och den kinesiska utbildningen från 1919 till i dag. In Landahl J, Lundahl C, editors, Bortom PISA: Internationell och jämförande pedagogik . Stockholm: Natur och kultur. 2017. p. 243-283
Schulte B. Bringing politics back in: New technologies, teaching/learning and political power in Chinese classrooms. 2016.
Schulte B. Global Paths, Local Trajectories: China's Education and the Global. In Guo S, Guo Y, editors, Spotlight on China: Chinese Education in the Globalized World. Vol. 2. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: Sense Publishers. 2016. p. 19-34
Schulte B. (Dis)Empowering technologies: ICT for education (ICT4E) in China, past and present. Chinese Journal of Communication. 2015 Jan 2;8(1):59-77. doi: 10.1080/17544750.2014.990909