Emmanuel Jean-François
Emmanuel Jean-François is Associate Professor in Comparative and International Education at the University of Ohio (United States). He serves as the coordinator of the doctoral program in educational administration and leadership and the doctoral specialization in comparative and international educational leadership. He is an expert in global sustainability education, students and immigration issues and funding for higher education. He looks into the comparison between education in different countries. Emmanuel Francois earns a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of South Florida; a master’s degree in human services from Springfield College; a joint post-graduate diploma in population and development from the State University of Haiti and the United Nations Development Program; and a joint post-graduate certificate in psycho-education and social health from the Schools of Cadres in Special Education of Port-au-Prince and Versailles. He has written many books and has several published works in peer-review journals. He is the editor of The African Symposium, which is an online peer-review journal. Previously, he served as a reviewer for Global Education Review, Journal of International Students, Human Services Today, American Educational Research Journal, and International Journal of Multicultural Education. Although many of the concepts are not new nor misunderstood, he devotes much of his energy to reducing the confusion associated with them. As part of this, he has developed scales (Motivation for Internationalizing the Curriculum Scale (MICS) and Cross-cultural Readiness Exposure Scale (CRES)) to access an individual’s understanding of global education and coined the acronym Transnational Global International and Comparative Education (TGICE) in his latest book. Furthermore, he is one of the founding members and president of the Transnational Education and Learning Society (TELS), which is one of the only official associations that focuses primarily on transnational education.