Comparative Education

Contributors: Robert F. Arnove, Muzna Awayed-Bishara, Mark Bray, Bidemi Carrol, Ben Eklof, David Fa’avae, Joseph P. Farrell, Christine Fox, Stephen Franz, John Hawkins, Anne Hickling-Hudson, Steven J. Klees, Vandra Lea Masemann, Raymond Morrow, Carlos Ornelas, Martyn Reynolds, Joel Samoff, Kabini Sanga, Daniel Schugurensky, Iveta Silova, Nelly P. Stromquist, António Teodoro, Carlos Alberto Torres, Anthony Welch, Susan WikstenAbout the EditorsCarlos Alberto Torres is Distinguished Professor of Education, Director of the UCLA Paulo Freire Institute, and former UNESCO-UCLA Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education. Torres is a political sociologist of education. He was educated in Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Canada. He is also Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institute in São Paulo, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and UCLA. Torres is Past President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Past President of the Research Committee of Sociology of Education, International Sociological Association, and Past President of the Comparative and International Society (CIES-US). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. He has published over 60 books and more than 300 peer research articles, and received three Fulbright grants. Robert F. Arnove, lead co-editor of the previous four editions of Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local, as well as the co-editor of Emergent Trends in Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and Local, is Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is a Past President and Honorary Fellow of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). A visiting scholar at universities ranging from Argentina to Australia, he has published extensively on the contours, dimensions, and major trends in the field of comparative education with a focus on education and sociopolitical exchange. His latest book, Talent Abounds, examines teaching and mentoring interactions and societal policies that can foster peak performance in various domains of the arts and athletics for all students. He has been a teachers union president, a third party candidate for the U.S. Congress, and the president of an experimental theater company in Bloomington, Indiana.Lauren Ila Misiaszek (PhD, UCLA) has been Associate Professor in the Institute of International and Comparative Education at Beijing Normal University since 2013. Misiaszek is Immediate Past Secretary General of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) (2016-2019), an Associate Director of the Paulo Freire Institute (UCLA), and a Co-Founder and Fellow of the International Network on Gender, Social Justice, and Praxis. Some of the other positions she has held include UK Fulbright Scholar, a national program manager for the US Veterans Administration, a sustainable development fellow in Nicaragua, and a free clinic worker and translator in the US. Misiaszek works across various linguistic and geographic contexts at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences on a wide range of intersectional social justice issues, including social movements and nonformal education, critical sociology of higher education, and postfoundational comparative education.

The field of comparative and international education has evolved significantly over the years, and the fifth edition of this volume manages to nimbly keep step with an ever-changing world. Informative and in-depth, this book reflects on the many and varied forces shaping the field both from within and beyond the academy. Globalization, equity, and cross-cultural themes grounded in current sociopolitical realities offer rich opportunities for narratives and analysis across well-researched and comprehensive chapters. Historical perspectives on the field serve as welcome context to ground the contemporary views addressed in this latest edition, which offers both methodological and theoretical frames for consideration. The editors treat comparative international studies as a way forward for many of the challenges in the post-pandemic world, where the very foundations of democracy and social safety nets were exposed as fragile. The chapter on the various roles of higher education, among other sections of this book, should be widely read across the academy and discussed by scholars from diverse fields, including the humanities, STEM, and the social sciences. This book is highly recommended for scholars whose teaching and/or research bridges local, regional, and global perspectives. Highly recommended. Graduate students and faculty.”

• Introduction: Reframing Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local Robert F. ArnoveInstitutionalizing International Influence Joel SamoffEconomics, Education, and Society: Myths and Possibilities Steven KleesThe State, Social Movements and Education: Between Reform and Transformation Raymond Morrow and Carlos Alberto TorresCulture and Education Vandra Lea Masemann The Question of Identity from a Comparative Education Perspective Christine FoxEquality of Education: Six Decades of Comparative Evidence Seen from a New Millennium Joseph P. FarrellWomen’s Education in the Twenty-First Century Nelly P. StromquistControl of Education: Issues and Tensions in Centralization and Decentralization Mark BrayTransforming adult and community education: a theory of literacies for analysing change in Grenada’s revolution and after Anne Hickling-HudsonBetween the State, Society and Global Markets: Three Roles of Higher Education Susan Wiksten & Daniel Schugurensky Education in Africa: Not Remediation but Transformation and Innovation Joel Samoff & Bidemi CarrolEducation in Latin America: From Dependency and Neoliberalism to Alternative Paths to Development Robert F. Arnove, Stephen Franz, Carlos Ornelas & Carlos Alberto TorresThe Education of Youngsters in Conflict-Ridden Regions of the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities Muzna Awayed-BisharaEducation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Achievements and Challenges John Hawkins (posthumous) & Anthony Welch Living Well Together as Educators in Our Oceanic 'Sea of Islands': Epistemology and Ontology of Comparative Education Kabini Sanga, David Fa’avae, Martyn ReynoldsThe Political Construction of European Education António TeodoroEducation in Eastern and Central Europe: Re-Thinking Post-Socialism in the Context of Globalization Ben Eklof & Iveta Silova Technocracy, Uncertainty, and Ethics: Comparative Education in an Era of Postmodernity and Globalization Anthony WelchComparative Education: The Dialectics of Globalization and Its Discontents Carlos Alberto Torres