International & Comparative Education

With a focus on the role of discourse and language in education, this book examines China’s educational reform from an original perspective that avoids mapping on Westernized educational sensibilities to a Chinese environment. Zhao untangles the tradition-modernity division expressed in China’s educ..

Examining the roles, impacts and challenges of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America, this volume provides a broad perspective on the range of strategies these organizations employ and the obstacles they face in advocating for and delivering educational reform...

Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond...

Community education is now a worldwide phenomenon, though its form varies widely depending on the social and historical context of each country and the needs of its people. This book examines the range of community education now being undertaken...

This book, originally published in 1992, contains a wealth of experience in the development of community education from and about Third World countries. The influence of Paulo Freire permeates the work, although each country and continent has had to seek its own path and its own methodology...

This book is designed as a text on how to go about setting up and effectively running international research projects...

Originally published in 1981. This is a coherent theory of comparative education research using ideal typical normative models to illustrate how comparative educationists investigate different social worlds. ..

Written by researchers from eleven different countries, these accounts offer clear guidance on conducting different forms of international comparative research and valuable suggestions for new directions in such research...

_x005F_x000D_ The University of Ngozi in northern Burundi was created in 1999 and is now dedicated to peace, reconciliation and sustainable development. People in this region tell remarkable stories of tragedy and recovery amidst these horrors. Their stories can inspire others to preserve their huma..

_x005F_x000D_ The University of Ngozi in northern Burundi was created in 1999 and is now dedicated to peace, reconciliation and sustainable development. People in this region tell remarkable stories of tragedy and recovery amidst these horrors. Their stories can inspire others to preserve their huma..

Originally published in 1985. Some less developed countries have emulated the West in the style and organisation of their academic systems. Others have deliberately avoided this path, experimenting with systems more relevant to development. This book discusses the problems of dependence and interdep..

Originally published in 1992. This work provides insight into comparative and international education work in Australia and New Zealand - the 14 essays address issues such as education in third-world Asia, sexism, and culture and power...