Full Description
This revised and updated second edition of Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the key themes, definitions and approaches in this important field. It covers the history, theory, and methods of comparative and international education, as well as the relationship with education and national development, and outlines what we can learn from comparative studies. Clear explanations are complemented with examples of real research in the field including work on policy borrowing, learner-centred pedagogy and university internationalization.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword to the 1st Edition, Erwin H. Epstein
Foreword to the 2nd Edition, Jeremy Rappleye
Preface to the 2nd Edition
Introduction
1. Making Comparisons
2. How Comparative Education has Developed
3. Policy Transfer
4. International Education: Meanings, Practice, and Research
5. Education and National Development: An Introduction to Key Ideas and Questions
6. Comparative Education: Method
7. Researching Education and Development: Perspectives, Practicalities, and Ethics
8. Comparative Education Research: Survey Outcomes and Their Uses
9. Outcomes of Comparative Education: Selected Themes
Conclusions
References
Index
