Reflective of the latest trends in education research, this inaugural volume of the World Education Research Yearbook captures the diverse concepts and various arenas of inquiry that are engaging education researchers across the globe. Comprised of nine chapters, the 2015 Yearbook brings together some of the most accomplished and emerging scholars in the field, from a breadth of universities and research institutions in the United States, Europe, Australia, Asia, and South America.

Lori Diane Hill is a Visiting Scientist at the American Educational Research Association and a Faculty Associate at the University of Michigan.

Felice J. Levine is the President-Elect of WERA and Executive Director of AERA, the American Educational Research Association.

Contents

Introduction

1 Paradigm Shift in Education: Toward Third Wave Research

Yin Cheong Cheng

2 Promoting Children's Academic Performance and Social Inclusion in Marginalized Settings: Family and Community Participation in Interactive Groups and Dialogic Literary Gatherings

Rocío García-Carrión, Sandra Girbés-Peco, and Gabriela Gómez-Zepeda

3 Health and Wellness on Sesame Street: Muppets, Media, and the Development of a Global Approach to Health Education

Abigail Bucuvalas and Charlotte F. Cole

4 Assessing the Intended Participation of Young Adolescents as Future Citizens: Comparing Results from Five East Asian Countries

Wolfram Schulz, John Ainley, and Julian Fraillon

5 LGBT Equity and School Policy: Perspectives from Canada and Australia

Tania Ferfolja

6 Celebrating the Complexity and Multidimensionality of "Quality" in Education: Toward a New Process of Choosing Indicators That Measure in Ways That Better Reflect Context

Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

7 Methodological Challenges in Measuring Change in Students' Learning Processes

Sari Lindblom-Ylänne, Anna Parpala, and Liisa Postareff

8 Decolonial and Applied Critical Leadership (ACL) in Education: International Cross-Cultural Collaboration for a New Century

Lorri J. Santamaría and Nathalia E. Jaramillo

9 Cross-National Teacher Effectiveness Research: Challenges, but also Opportunities to Reveal Differential Effects?

Gudrun Vanlaar, Leonidas Kyriakides, Machteld Vandecandelaere, Bieke De Fraine, Anastasia Panayiotou, and Jan Van Damme