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Handbook on Comparative Education
Compiling insights from leading scholars across the globe, this cutting-edge Handbook presents an overview of comparative education. It crucially distinguishes the field from other subdisciplines of educational studies, addressing key areas of debate within both scholarship and professional practice.
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Compiling insights from leading scholars across the globe, this cutting-edge Handbook presents an overview of comparative education. It crucially distinguishes the field from other subdisciplines of educational studies, addressing key areas of debate within both scholarship and professional practice.
The Handbook examines fundamental issues and concerns in research, policy, practice, and professionalisation. Bringing together representative voices from a wide range of contexts, chapters offer a holistic perspective on the theoretical approaches, methodological applications, and responsibilities of comparative education. Authors tackle the major challenges currently impacting the field, including education finance equity, accessibility of research in the Global South, and the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Providing a comprehensive exploration of this exciting subject area, the Handbook on Comparative Education is a crucial resource for education policy students, scholars, and comparativists. It is also beneficial to researchers and professionals interested in areas such as international development, management education, and comparative education.
The Handbook examines fundamental issues and concerns in research, policy, practice, and professionalisation. Bringing together representative voices from a wide range of contexts, chapters offer a holistic perspective on the theoretical approaches, methodological applications, and responsibilities of comparative education. Authors tackle the major challenges currently impacting the field, including education finance equity, accessibility of research in the Global South, and the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Providing a comprehensive exploration of this exciting subject area, the Handbook on Comparative Education is a crucial resource for education policy students, scholars, and comparativists. It is also beneficial to researchers and professionals interested in areas such as international development, management education, and comparative education.
Critical Acclaim
‘A tour de force in comparative analysis of education, Wiseman et al. curate a new collection of state-of-the-art chapters exploring theories, methodologies, and policy implications in the global study of education, authored by some of the field’s most active scholars.’
– David P. Baker, Penn State University, USA
‘The Handbook on Comparative Education is an essential addition to the library of every scholar, educator, and policymaker interested in the field of comparative education. With contributions from an impressive roster of global experts, this comprehensive volume offers a rich tapestry of perspectives that enlighten and broaden our understanding of educational systems worldwide.’
– Halla B. Holmarsdottir, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
‘The Handbook on Comparative Education invites us to navigate the theoretical and methodological universe of comparative education, which is fundamental to understanding this new challenge for readers. Chapters in the Handbook bring a novelty: they approach comparative education from its already consensual practices in academia and dive into the field''s professionalization. That is comparative education advances in analysis and comparative evaluation as an essential instrument for decisions in the public and private spheres of educational systems.’
– Luis Enrique Aguilar, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
– David P. Baker, Penn State University, USA
‘The Handbook on Comparative Education is an essential addition to the library of every scholar, educator, and policymaker interested in the field of comparative education. With contributions from an impressive roster of global experts, this comprehensive volume offers a rich tapestry of perspectives that enlighten and broaden our understanding of educational systems worldwide.’
– Halla B. Holmarsdottir, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
‘The Handbook on Comparative Education invites us to navigate the theoretical and methodological universe of comparative education, which is fundamental to understanding this new challenge for readers. Chapters in the Handbook bring a novelty: they approach comparative education from its already consensual practices in academia and dive into the field''s professionalization. That is comparative education advances in analysis and comparative evaluation as an essential instrument for decisions in the public and private spheres of educational systems.’
– Luis Enrique Aguilar, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
