This book presents perspectives on the changes that have taken place within the field of comparative education, while noting various continuing traditions. Its contributors come from a wide range of countries and contexts, and present their work within a framework set by the 11th congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). The book makes a valuable methodological as well as a conceptual contribution to the field.
The purposes and methods of comparative education are also discussed. Comprised of eight chapters, this book begins by presenting a neat, simple, and generally accepted definition of comparative education.
The Dialectic of the Global and the Local Robert F. Arnove Carlos Alberto Torres, Stephen Franz ... John McCarthy and Mayer Zald, “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements,” American Journal of Sociology 82 (1973): 1212–41; ...
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The essays of this volume express and critically discuss quite a range of these positions such as, inter alia, the theory of self-organizing social systems and the morphogenetic approach; the theory of long waves in economic development and ...
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With chapter contributions from seminal scholars in the field of comparative and international education (CIE), this book examines the ways in which comparative education is being taught, or advocated for, in teacher education within higher ...
This book brings together fifteen comprehensive studies of significant North American scholars of comparative education from the 20th century.
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This book introduces major themes surrounding globalisation and education, giving you a nuanced understanding of key debates, thinkers and sources of information.
The well-known Negro institutions—Fisk, Atlanta, Howard and Hampton—were founded by Northern charity in the period 1865-80. The lead was given by General S. C. Armstrong who established the Hampton Institute in Virginia as an ...