Drawing together international perspectives and disciplinary sub-fields of comparative and global social policy, this book provides an insightful guide for educators and academics embarking on or revisiting the design and teaching of classes, courses and programmes in and around social and public policy.

Contents: Foreword xii Acknowledgements xiv 1 International, comparative and global perspectives in social policy teaching: introduction 1 Zoë Irving PART I EXPLORING THE SCOPE OF INTERNATIONAL, COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY TEACHING 2 What counts as ‘social policy’ in comparative, international and global context? 13 Kevin Farnsworth 3 Teaching comparative and international social policy through the lenses of political economy 26 Niccolo Durazzi and Markus Ketola 4 Comparative theoretical and methodological approaches in social policy teaching 42 Ijin Hong 5 Bringing the world beyond welfare states back into social policy teaching 57 Ndangwa Noyoo 6 Teaching about global social policy 71 Noémi Lendvai-Bainton 7 Teaching about the role of ideas in social policy 85 Daniel Béland and Ronen Mandelkern 8 Race matters in teaching about international social policy and protection 98 Lata Narayanaswamy 9 Bringing gender into teaching social policy in international comparative and global context 115 Julia Lux PART II CONTEXT AND TOOLS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING INTERNATIONAL, COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY 10 Adding the social to the public, and the international to the social: the study of social and public policy, old and new 130 Gaby Ramia 11 Teaching qualitative research in comparative social policy 145 Sirin Sung 12 Teaching international and comparative policy analysis 159 John Hudson 13 Asynchronous online learning and teaching: principles of programme design, teaching practice, and study support 172 Enrico Reuter 14 Designing a social policy curriculum for international, comparative and global learning 187 Zoë Irving 15 Useful sources in social and public policy teaching – an annotated collection of contributor choices 202 Edited by Zoë Irving Index