Full Description
The scope and breadth of the field of comparative and international education is vast. In fact, there are few, if any, limitations on theme, method, or data in the field of comparative and international education. Every context or combination of contexts are available for comparative education scholars to scrutinise. The scope of this field brings both serious interest but also great challenges.
This book explores the evolution and current state of the scholarly field of comparative and international education over 200 years of development. Experts in the field explore comparative and international education in each of the major world regions including Latin America, North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East-North Africa, Oceania, South Asia, South-East and East Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Illuminating studies conducted in the fields of higher education, teacher education, vocational education, and peace education shed light on the rise of global testing culture and take a closer look at the history of the region in relation to educational practice.
This important text is the first to respond to the challenges currently facing comparative education on a multi-national scale and will prove invaluable for researchers in the field of global education.
Contents
Preface; Alexander W. Wiseman
1. Introduction to Comparative Education as an Infinite Field; Alexander W. Wiseman, C. C. Wolhuter
2. Comparative and International Education: Development of a Field and its Method and Theory; David A. Turner
3. Global Trends in the Rise and Fall of Comparative Education Societies; W. James Jacob, Huiyuan Ye, Miranda L. Hogsett, Annette T. Han, Midori Hasegawa, Lili Jia, Lin Jiang, Shangmou Xu
4. Comparative Education in Brazil: Understanding the Research Field; Luis Enrique Aguilhar, Ana Elisa Spaolonzi Queiroz Assis
5. Comparative Education in Spanish-Speaking Latin America: Recent Developments and Future Prospects; Jorge M. Gorostiaga, Óscar Espinoza
6. The History of Comparative and International Education in North America; W. James Jacob, Huiyuan Ye, Shuo Wang, Xueshuang Wang, Xiufang Ma, Abdullah Bagci, Quan Gu, Julio Luis Méndez Vergara
7. Comparative Education in Eastern and Central Europe; Nikolay Popov, Teodora Genova
8. Comparative and International Education in Western Europe; María-Jesús Martínez-Usarralde, Carmen-María Fernández-García
9. Comparative Education in the Arab World: Origin, Development, and Research Interests; Kwabena Dei Ofori-Atah
10. Comparative Education in Central Asia; Aisi Li
11. Comparative Education in South Asia: Contribution, Contestation and Possibilities; Poonam Batra
12. Comparative and International Education in East and Southeast Asia; Lorraine Pe Symaco, Roger Chao, Jr.
13. Perspectives on Comparative and International Education in Oceania; Alexandra McCormick, Seuula Johansson-Fua
14. Comparative Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Young Field on a Promising Continent; C. C. Wolhuter
