David Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Education at the University of Oxford, UK, and an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK.Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is also Chair of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (2010-12) and Editor of the journal Comparative Education.

An excellent book for students of comparative and international education to indulge in. It leaves the reader with a thorough insight into what comparative education is all about... and provides readers with a firm foundation for further absorption into the many aspects of the field. It is a pleasure also to recommend the book as a course book for comparative education courses outside the English-speaking world.

• Foreword by Professor Erwin H. Epstein Introduction 1. Making comparisons 2. How comparative education has developed 3. Domains of practice and fields of inquiry in international education 4. Education and national development: An introduction to key ideas and questions 5. Comparative education: method 6. Researching education and development: Perspectives, practicalities, and ethics 7. Comparative education research: survey outcomes and their uses 8. Outcomes of comparative education: Selected themes Conclusions References