Fifty Years of Comparative Education
Author:   Michele Schweisfurth (University of Glasgow, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   142
Publication Date:   31 May 2017
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Author:   Michele Schweisfurth (University of Glasgow, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9781138059115


ISBN 10:   1138059110
Pages:   142
Publication Date:   31 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction 1. Comparative education: stones, silences, and siren songs 2. Global league tables, big data and the international transfer of educational research modalities 3. Lessons from abroad: whatever happened to pedagogy? 4. From adult education to lifelong learning and beyond 5. The intellect, mobility and epistemic positioning in doing comparisons and comparative education 6. ‘Comparatography’, history and policy quotation: some reflections 7. Neither orthodoxy nor randomness: differing logics of conducting comparative and international studies in education 8. Among the comparativists: ethnographic observations 9. Thinking about gender in comparative education

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Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education and Co-Director of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is Editor of the journal Comparative Education. Her research interests include tensions between global frameworks (such as children’s rights, and notions of ‘best practice’ in teaching and learning) and local and cultural imperatives. She is the author of Learner-Centred Education in International Perspective: Whose Pedagogy for Whose Development? (2013) and Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice (2014, with David Phillips).

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