This is an excellent project. It is brilliantly timed, worth continuing, and perhaps worth expanding. The editors (and the publisher) are to be congratulated on seeing something so simple, important - and absent - amid the confusions of a rapidly changing field of study … This book is remarkable.

Comparative Education

This book is a unique resource for anyone interested in the study of comparative and international education. It presents, in an accessible yet rigorous way, a broad set of theoretical concepts and tools that help us advance our understanding in this rapidly evolving field.

Manuel Souto-Otero, Professor of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

This thoughtfully complied handbook is an impressive achievement. It includes a range of outstanding essays that not only provide accounts of major theoretical traditions in comparative and international education but also introduce readers to some of the most exciting new developments in the field.

Fazal Rizvi, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia

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This book represents the most comprehensive and trenchant treatment of theory in comparative and international education that I have seen. As such, I predict it will become as indispensable a work for comparativists of education as there is in the field.

Erwin H. Epstein, Professor Emeritus, Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, Loyola University Chicago, USA

The book offers a comprehensive range of theoretical traditions and approaches that have shaped the field of comparative and international education as developed in the English-speaking world. Themes and contributors are carefully chosen to demonstrate where the field has come from and where it might be headed to. The book will become an essential text for those who wish to be introduced to, contribute to and deconstruct the paradigm-setting discourse of comparative and international education.

Keita Takayama, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan

This book offers a practical and approachable overview of central theories in comparative and international education (CIE). The chapters focus in depth on specific theoretical perspectives and seek to elucidate the histories, assumptions, and recent developments of these theories. The chapters also situate the theories within CIE, include specific case studies of theoretical application, and outline suggestions for further reading. Written by leading scholars from around the world, this is must-have reference work for anyone teaching, researching, studying, or working in CIE.

The handbook includes chapters on a diverse collection of theories, including but not limited to: Structural-functionalism, Colonialism/Imperialism, Marxism, Human Capital Theory, Dependency/World Systems Theory, Post-Colonialism, Post-Socialism, Post-Foundationalism, Neo-liberalism, Neo-Institutionalism, Neo-Marxism, Policy Borrowing and Lending, Peace Theories, Human Rights, Constructivism, Racism, Gender, Queer Theory, Social Network Theory, Capabilities Theory, and Cultural Political Economy.

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Acknowledgements
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: New Directions in Comparative and International Education, tavis jules
SECTION 1: FOUNDATIONAL THEORIES
· Section Introduction
1. Structural-functionalism in Comparative and International Education: Antecedents, developments, and applications – Marcelo Marques
2. Imperialism, Colonialism, and Coloniality in Comparative and International Education: Conquest, Slavery, and Prejudice – Tavis Jules, Syed Amir Shah, and Pravindharan Balakrishnan
3. Marxism in Comparative and International Education: Foundational Political Economy Perspectives on Education – Robin Shields and Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara
4. Human Capital Theory in Comparative and International Education: Development, Application, and Problematics – Donna C. Tonini
5. Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis in Comparative and International Education: Critical Accounts of Education and Development – Tom G. Griffiths

SECTION 2: POST-FOUNDATIONAL THEORIES
· Section Introduction
6. Post-colonialism in Comparative and International Education: Interrogating power, epistemologies, and educational practice – Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar, Arzhia Habibi, and Olga Mun
7. Post-modernism and Post-structuralism in Comparative and International Education: Examining background context, application, and prospective – Edith Mukudi Omwami
8. Post-Socialist Transformations in Comparative and International Education: Monuments, Movements, and Metamorphoses – Iveta Silova, Zsuzsa Millei, Ketevan Chachkhiani, Garine Palandjian, and Mariia Vitrukh
9. Gender in Comparative and International Education: Gender as noun, adjective, and verb – Laura Wangsness Willemsen and Payal Shah
10. Post-Foundational Approaches in Comparative and International Education: Uncertain Moves toward Unknown Horizons – Jordan Corson and Susanne Ress

SECTION 3: THEORETICAL ADAPTION AND REVISION
· Section Introduction
11. Neo-liberalism in Comparative and International Education: Theory, Practice, Paradox – Anthony Welch
12. Framing Comparative and International Education Through a Neo-Institutional Lens: The Discourse on Global Patterns and Shared Expectations – Alexander W. Wiseman
13. Neo-realism in Comparative and International Education: Power, Influence, and PrioritiesTavis D. Jules, Syed Amir Shah, Pravindharan Balakrishnan, and Serene Ismail
14. Neo-Gramscian Theory in Comparative and International Education: Power, ideas, and institutions – Tavis D. Jules, Richard Arnol, Pravindharan Balakrishnan, and Victoria Desimoni
15. Regimes and Regionalism in Comparative and International Education: Cooperation and Competition – Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
16. Cultural Political Economy (CPE) in Comparative and International Education: Putting CPE to Work in Studying Globalisation – Susan L. Robertson and Roger Dale


SECTION 4: THEORIES OF POLICY AND PRACTICE
· Section Introduction
17. Constructivism and Learner-Centeredness in Comparative and International Education: Where Theories Meet Practice – Matthew A.M. Thomas and Michele Schweisfurth
18. Differentiation Theory and Externalization in Comparative and International Education: Understanding the Intersections of the global and the local – Marcelo Parreira do Amaral and Marvin Erfurth
19. Policy Borrowing and Lending in Comparative and International Education: A Key Area of Research – Gita Steiner-Khamsi
20. Situating Peace Education Theories, Scholarship, and Practice in Comparative and International Education – Maria Hantzopoulos, Zeena Zakharia, and Brooke Harris Garad
21. Theories of Human Rights Education in Comparative and International Education: From Declarations to New Directions – Monisha Bajaj and Nomsa Mabona

SECTION 5: INTERDISCIPLINARY AND EMERGING APPROACHES
· Section Introduction
22. Theorizing race and racism in Comparative and International Education – Sharon Walker, Arathi Sriprakash, and Leon Tikly
23. Queer Theory in Comparative and International Education: How Queer is CIE – Christian A. Bracho
24. Transitologies in Comparative and International Education: Transformation and Metamorphisms – Tavis D. Jules
25. Actor-Network-Theory and Comparative and International Education: Addressing the complexity of socio material foundations of power in education – Jason Beech and Alejandro Artopoulos
26. Social Network Theory and Analysis in Comparative and International Education: Connecting the Dots for Better Understanding of Education – Oren Pizmony-Levy
27. The Capabilities Approach in Comparative and International Education: A Justice-Enhancing Framework – Joan DeJaeghere and Melanie J. Walker

Index

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A state of the field collection covering the major theories used in comparative and international education.
Includes chapters from leading comparative and international education scholars from around the world
Bloomsbury Handbooks is a series of single-volume reference works which map the parameters of a discipline or sub-discipline and present the 'state-of-the-art' in terms of research. Each Handbook offers a systematic and structured range of specially commissioned essays reflecting on the history, methodologies, research methods, current debates and future of a particular field of research. Bloomsbury Handbooks provide researchers and graduate students with both cutting-edge perspectives on perennial questions and authoritative overviews of the history of research.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350245129
Publisert
2023-08-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
244 mm
Bredde
169 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
512

Biographical note

tavis d. jules is Associate Professor of Cultural and Educational Policy Studies at Loyola University Chicago, USA. He is the author of Educational Transitions in Post-Revolutionary Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Robin Shields is Professor of Education at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Globalization and International Education (Bloomsbury, 2013) and a co-editor of the Comparative Education Review.

Matthew A.M. Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Education and Sociology of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is co-editor of Examining Teach For All (2020).