Comparative and International Education
Survey of an Infinite Field
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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
Contributed by education and other scholars from around the world, the 14 chapters in this volume survey the scope and diversity of the field of comparative and international education, emphasizing regional variations and comparative aspects. They explore the history and state of comparative and international education in Brazil, Spanish-speaking Latin America, North America, Eastern and Central Europe, Western Europe, the Arab world, Central Asia, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the development of the field and its method and theory and global trends in the rise and fall of comparative and international education societies.
Contributed by education and other scholars from around the world, the 14 chapters in this volume survey the scope and diversity of the field of comparative and international education, emphasizing regional variations and comparative aspects. They explore the history and state of comparative and international education in Brazil, Spanish-speaking Latin America, North America, Eastern and Central Europe, Western Europe, the Arab world, Central Asia, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the development of the field and its method and theory and global trends in the rise and fall of comparative and international education societies.