Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education and Co-Director of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is Editor of the journal Comparative Education. Her research interests include tensions between global frameworks (such as children’s rights, and notions of ‘best practice’ in teaching and learning) and local and cultural imperatives. She is the author of Learner-Centred Education in International Perspective: Whose Pedagogy for Whose Development? (2013) and Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice (2014, with David Phillips).

• Introduction 1. Comparative education: stones, silences, and siren songs 2. Global league tables, big data and the international transfer of educational research modalities 3. Lessons from abroad: whatever happened to pedagogy? 4. From adult education to lifelong learning and beyond 5. The intellect, mobility and epistemic positioning in doing comparisons and comparative education 6. ‘Comparatography’, history and policy quotation: some reflections 7. Neither orthodoxy nor randomness: differing logics of conducting comparative and international studies in education 8. Among the comparativists: ethnographic observations 9. Thinking about gender in comparative education

Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education and Co-Director of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is Editor of the journal Comparative Education. Her research interests include tensions between global frameworks (such as children’s rights, and notions of ‘best practice’ in teaching and learning) and local and cultural imperatives. She is the author of Learner-Centred Education in International Perspective: Whose Pedagogy for Whose Development? (2013) and Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice (2014, with David Phillips).

• Introduction 1. Comparative education: stones, silences, and siren songs 2. Global league tables, big data and the international transfer of educational research modalities 3. Lessons from abroad: whatever happened to pedagogy? 4. From adult education to lifelong learning and beyond 5. The intellect, mobility and epistemic positioning in doing comparisons and comparative education 6. ‘Comparatography’, history and policy quotation: some reflections 7. Neither orthodoxy nor randomness: differing logics of conducting comparative and international studies in education 8. Among the comparativists: ethnographic observations 9. Thinking about gender in comparative education

Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education and Co-Director of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is Editor of the journal Comparative Education. Her research interests include tensions between global frameworks (such as children’s rights, and notions of ‘best practice’ in teaching and learning) and local and cultural imperatives. She is the author of Learner-Centred Education in International Perspective: Whose Pedagogy for Whose Development? (2013) and Comparative and International Education: An Introduction to Theory, Method and Practice (2014, with David Phillips).

• Introduction 1. Comparative education: stones, silences, and siren songs 2. Global league tables, big data and the international transfer of educational research modalities 3. Lessons from abroad: whatever happened to pedagogy? 4. From adult education to lifelong learning and beyond 5. The intellect, mobility and epistemic positioning in doing comparisons and comparative education 6. ‘Comparatography’, history and policy quotation: some reflections 7. Neither orthodoxy nor randomness: differing logics of conducting comparative and international studies in education 8. Among the comparativists: ethnographic observations 9. Thinking about gender in comparative education