Comparative Education The Construction of a Field /

• Main Author: Manzon, Maria (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: CERC Studies in Comparative Education ; 29
• Subjects: Education.; History.; International education.; Comparative education.; Sociology.; International and Comparative Education.; History, general.; Sociology, general.

This book is a remarkable feat of scholarship — so remarkable in fact that I put it in the same league as the great classics of the field that had so much to do with setting the direction of Comparative Education. Indeed, this volume goes further than earlier classics to reveal, through textual anal...

Table of Contents:

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Appendices
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Series Editor’s Foreword: Mark Bray
• Foreword: Robert Cowen
• 1. Introduction: Deconstructing Comparative Education
• 2. Disciplines and Fields in Academic Discourse
• 3. The Empirical Substance and Mass that Constitute the Field of Comparative Education
• 4. Intellectual Histories of Comparative Education.-5. Mapping the Intellectual Discourse on ‘Comparative Education’
• 6. Reconstructing Comparative Education
• Appendices
• References
• Notes on the Author
• Index.