College of Education and Human Development

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

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Tiago Bittencourt, PhD

  • Pronouns: he, him, his

  • Comparative and International Development Education

    PhD, Comparative and International Development Education, University of Minnesota
    MA, International Education Development, Teachers College, Columbia University
    BA, International Relations, Wheaton College

      • Social reproduction theory
      • Social class in education
      • Internationalization of education
      • Education policy

        Bittencourt, T. (In press) Social class and the construction of international mindedness: A comparative study of IB World Schools in Ecuador. Journal of Research in International Education.

        Bittencourt, T. (2020). Inclusive policies and the perils of dissonance: A case study of an IB public school in Ecuador. Forum for International Research in Education, 6(1), 24-39.

        Bittencourt, T., Johnstone, C., Adjei, M., & Seithers, L. (2019). "We see the world different now": Remapping assumptions about international student adaptation. Journal of Studies in International Education, 1-16. doi:10.1177/1028315319861366

        Bittencourt, T., & Willetts, A. (2018). Negotiating the tensions: A critical approach to international schools’ mission statements. Globalisation, Societies & Education. 16(4), 515-525.

        Johnstone, C., Soria, K., Bittencourt, T.. & Adjei, M. (2018). The global and the local: Programs that predict critical thinking and cultural appreciation in students. International Journal of Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement. 6(1), 1-13.

          Bittencourt (2019). Social class and the rules of competitive college admissions: A comparative study of IB World Schools in Ecuador. Comparative and International Education Society: Education for sustainability, San Francisco, California.

          Bittencourt (2019). “Vas subir al BI o bajar al BGU?”: Inclusive policies and the creation of new forms of inequity. Comparative and International Education Society: Education for sustainability, San Francisco, California.

          Bittencourt (2018). Sumak Kawsay and the struggle for representational control: The International Baccalaureate in a ‘post-neoliberal’ Ecuador. Comparative and International Education Society: Re-mapping global education south-north dialogue, Mexico City, Mexico.

          Bittencourt, Johnstone, Adjei & Seithers (2018). “Let’s speak in Portuguese because my head is killing me!”: Re-mapping assumptions about international student adaptation. Comparative and International Education Society: Re-mapping global education south-north dialogue, Mexico City, Mexico.

          Johnstone, Soria, Bittencourt, & Adjei (2016). Intercultural, experiential, and examining “international” as a variable of student development outcomes. Association for the Study of Higher Education, Columbus, Ohio.

          Bittencourt, Jha, & Shin (2012). Complementary approaches towards achieving the millennium development goals for education: Lessons from the Field. 56th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

          Aragón, Bittencourt, Johnson, & Kleyn (2011). Teaching immigration: A critical and contemporary approach for secondary educators. 9th Annual Education Across the Americas Conference, New York City, NY.

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