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Comparative and International Education
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David Phillips, Michele Schweisfurth
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David Phillips, Michele Schweisfurth
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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.
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Comparative
and
International
Education
23.
e
translation
was
by
Sarah
Austin
(1793–1867),
who
was
herself
a
significant
figure
in
the
early
history
of
comparative
studies
(see
Goodman,
‘A
historiography
of
founding
fathers?
’).
24.
Taylor,
A
Digest
,
pp.
iii–iv.
25.
Messerli,
Horace
Mann
,
p.
407.
26.
On
national
character
see
Barker,
National
Character;
Vexliard,
‘
L’éducation
comparée
et
la
notion
de
caractère
national’;
Kay,
‘National
character
–
Concept,
scope
and
uses’;
Hans,
Comparative
Education;
and
Mallinson,
Introduction
to
the
Study
of
Comparative
Education.
27.
See
Jones,
Comparative
Education
,
pp.
57–74,
for
summaries
of
the
work
of
Kandel,
Mallinson,
and
Lauwerys.
28.
Among
the
factors
that
are
said
to
account
for
the
Finnish
success
in
PISA
are
Finland’s
well-established
nine-year
comprehensive
schools,
the
attention
paid
to
pupils
with
special
needs,
degrees
of
local
autonomy
and
–
importantly
–
a
committed,
professional,
and
highly
qualified
teaching
force,
recruited
from
the
successful
ten
per
cent
of
applicants
and
educated
to
Master’s
level.
(Sahlberg,
Finnish
Lessons
.)
29.
Coulby
and
Jones,
‘Post-modernity
and
European
Identities’.
30.
Cowen,
‘Last
past
the
post:
Comparative
education,
modernity
and
perhaps
post-modernity’,
p.
151.
31.
Gottlieb,
‘Are
we
post-modern
yet?
’,
p.
171.