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Book SynopsisNow in its 5th edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local has established itself as the state-of-the art, comprehensive as well as complex framework for taking into the dynamic interactions of local, national, regional, and transnational interactions shaping education systems around the world. Our theoretical and methodological strategy for this volume has proven effective as a standard textbook for introducing the field of comparative education from various theoretical and methodological perspectives.The 5th edition welcomes Lauren Misasziek of Beijing National University as co-editor.
Trade ReviewAs a global educational scholar primarily focused upon global literacies, I welcome this volume as I believe it represents what I view as a zeitgeist occurring in the global arena. The chapters in the volume discuss the interruptions to our worlds as a result of socio-political, health and other developments that have occurred interrogating them enlisting postcolonialism, Indigeneity, racism, gender, gender and other critical lenses. The editors enlist the notion of dialectic to portray the tensions between local, national and global events and how they fuse with or disrupt the various story lines within the field of comparative education—the nature of its science and role in educational as well as socio-political developments across the globe, nationally, regionally and locally. The fifth edition offers a multidimensional discussion of global-local transactions on a planetary scale that better fit with reading our worlds beyond what comparative education scholars have provided prior. The volume’s contributors leverage discussions of planetary significance essential to the critical literacies and reflexivity of individuals, communities and larger society.
-- Rob Tierney, University of British Columbia
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reframing Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local Robert F. Arnove
- Institutionalizing International Influence Joel Samoff
- Economics, Education, and Society: Myths and Possibilities Steven Klees
- The State, Social Movements and Education: Between Reform and Transformation Raymond Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres
- Culture and Education Vandra Lea Masemann
- The Question of Identity from a Comparative Education Perspective Christine Fox
- Equality of Education: Six Decades of Comparative Evidence Seen from a New Millennium Joseph P. Farrell
- Women’s Education in the Twenty-First Century Nelly P. Stromquist
- Control of Education: Issues and Tensions in Centralization and Decentralization Mark Bray
- Transforming adult and community education: a theory of literacies for analysing change in Grenada’s revolution and after Anne Hickling-Hudson
- Between the State, Society and Global Markets: Three Roles of Higher Education Susan Wiksten & Daniel Schugurensky
- Education in Africa: Not Remediation but Transformation and Innovation Joel Samoff & Bidemi Carrol
- Education in Latin America: From Dependency and Neoliberalism to Alternative Paths to Development Robert F. Arnove, Stephen Franz, Carlos Ornelas & Carlos Alberto Torres
- The Education of Youngsters in Conflict-Ridden Regions of the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities Muzna Awayed-Bishara
- Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Achievements and Challenges John Hawkins (posthumous) & Anthony Welch
- Living Well Together as Educators in Our Oceanic 'Sea of Islands': Epistemology and Ontology of Comparative Education Kabini Sanga, David Fa’avae, Martyn Reynolds
- The Political Construction of European Education Antonio Teodoro
- Education in Eastern and Central Europe: Re-Thinking Post-Socialism in the Context of Globalization Ben Eklof & Iveta Silova
- Technocracy, Uncertainty, and Ethics: Comparative Education in an Era of Postmodernity and Globalization Anthony Welch
- Comparative Education: The Dialectics of Globalization and Its Discontents Carlos Alberto Torres
