Comparative and International Education
An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice
Published on 20. April 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-84706-059-4 (ISBN)
Description
This is a new affordable paperback combining introductory coverage of both 'comparative' and 'international' education for Masters and PhD students.With a foreword by Professor Erwin H. Epstein, a unique introduction to this important field, providing a comprehensive overview of the key themes, including: defining comparative and international education; how comparative studies in education have developed; methodological approaches to comparative and international education research; the relationship between education and national development; the power of comparative studies in investigating student achievement and school effectiveness; and, what comparative studies have taught us about educational issues such as policy borrowing, processes of transition, post-conflict education, education in small states, pedagogy, and citizenship.
Reviews / Votes
"'This latest publication not only testifies that the tradition for good course books is still strong and vivid. It also testifies that the special art to write in such a way that repeated readings continuously reveal new aspects of the subject matter has been achieved... It is a pleasure to recommend the book as course book for courses in comparative education outside the English speaking world.' Thyge Winther-Jensen"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84706-059-4 (9781847060594)
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New editions
David Phillips | Michele Schweisfurth
Comparative and International Education
An Introduction to Theory, Method, and Practice
Book
03/2014
2nd Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
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Persons
David Phillips is Professor of Comparative Education and Fellow of St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford, UK. He has written widely on issues in comparative education, with a focus on education in Germany and on educational policy borrowing. He was for twenty years Editor of the Oxford Review of Education and serves on editorial boards of various journals, including Comparative Education. Dr Michele Schweisfurth is Senior Lecturer in International Education and Director of the Centre for International Education and Research, University of Birmingham.
Content
Foreword by Erwin H. Epstein; Introduction; 1. Making comparisons; 2. How comparative education has developed; 3. Domains of practice and fields of inquiry in international education; 4. Education and national development: An introduction to key ideas and questions; 5. Comparative education: Method; 6. Researching education and development: Perspectives, practicalities, and ethics; 7. Comparative education research: Survey outcomes and their uses; 8. Outcomes of comparative education: Selected themes Conclusions; References.