Florin Salajan

Professor

Faculty

School of Education

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Florin D. Salajan is Professor in the School of Education. His scholarly expertise is in the field of Comparative and International Education (CIE), within which he focuses on several areas of inquiry, including comparative regionalism in education, higher education policy, higher education governance, European/EU educational policy, the internationalization of higher education, post-foundational studies (i.e., assemblage theory, actor-network theory), and academic mobility. He teaches courses in the Educational, Organizational and Policy Studies Program focused on comparative and international education, educational studies, educational research methods and foundations of education.

His work has appeared in the Comparative Education Review, Compare, Research in Comparative and International Education, International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, European Journal of Education, European Educational Research Journal, European Journal of Higher Education, and Educational Policy. He co-edited and contributed chapters for the volumes titled The Educational Intelligent Economy: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and the Internet of Things in Education, (with tavis d. jules, 2019), Comparative and International Education (Re)Assembled: Examining a Scholarly Field through an Assemblage Theory Lens (with tavis d. jules, 2022) and Teacher Education Intersecting Comparative and International Education: Revisiting Research, Policy and Practice in Twin Scholarship Fields (with tavis d. jules, 2023).

He is co-editor-in-chief of the Comparative Education Review, the oldest and leading journal in CIE, sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).

Areas of Study & Research

  • Comparative and international education
  • Higher education policy
  • Higher education governance
  • European/EU educational policy
  • Post-foundational studies: assemblage theory, actor-network theory
  • Academic mobility

Awards & Honors

  • Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award; Comparative Education; Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2024
  • ERASMUS+ Programme; Organizing Mobility; Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2023
  • Exceptional Contributions towards Internationalization Award; NDSU College of Human Sciences and Education, 2022
  • Longview Foundation Global Teacher Education Fellow, 2021-2022
  • ERASMUS+ Programme; Staff Training Mobility; Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2017

Links

Education

  • EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2007

Publications

Recent peer-reviewed articles

  • jules. t.d., & Salajan, F.D. (2025). Dis/re/assembling comparative and international education: The polycrisis and decolonial turn in a deglobalizing world. International Journal of Comparative Education and Development. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCED-01-2025-000
  • Salajan, F.D., & jules, t.d. (2025). An examination of socio-cultural region-building through comparative regionalism: Syncretic transcultural regionalism in the European and Caribbean education spaces. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2025.2543316
  • Salajan, F.D., Glava, A.E., & Glava, C.C. (2025). Training teachers across cultures: A comparative study of graduate-level initial teacher licensure programs in Romania and the United States. International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 27(2), 110-126. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCED-12-2024-0113
  • Becker, A., & Salajan, F.D. (2024). Materializing global academic mobility through the eyes of program coordinators: Comparative insights from a Romanian-U.S. institutional Erasmus+ agreement. Research in Comparative and International Education, 19(4), 402-419. https://doi.org/10.1177/17454999241291400
  • Salajan, F.D., Barnes, T., & Becker, A. (2024). Comparative regionalism cases of artificial intelligence governance in education: The CARICOM and the EU. The Round Table, 113(1), 71-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2024.2307793
  • jules, t.d., & Salajan, F.D. (2023). Regionalization and policy mobilities in comparative perspective: Composing educational assemblages in quasi-federal polities. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31(73), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.6764
  • Salajan, F.D., & Roumell, E.A. (2023). Tracing the historical construction of a vocational training, adult education and lifelong learning policy space in the European Union from 1951 to present. European Educational Research Journal, 22(3), 347-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041211065324
  • Salajan, F.D. (2021). A reflexive exploration of transposing comparative paradigms into scholarly and practical approaches in teacher education. Educația 21 Journal, 21, 4-12. https://doi.org/10.24193/ed21.2021.21.01

Recent books and edited volumes

  • Curtis, S.M.S., Desimoni, V., Crumley-Effinger, M., Salajan, F.D., & jules, t.d. (2024). The technological-industrial complex and education: Navigating algorithms, datafication, and artificial intelligence in comparative and international education. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60469-0
  • Salajan, F.D., jules. t.d., & Wolhuter, C.C. (2023). Teacher education intersecting comparative and international education: Revisiting research, policy and practice in twin scholarship fields. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350339972
  • Salajan, F.D., & jules, t.d. (2022). Comparative and international education (re)assembled: Examining a scholarly field through an assemblage theory lens. Bloomsbury Publishing. http://doi.org/10.5040/9781350286856