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The new 5th edition of Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local offers a state-of-the art, comprehensive, rigorous framework for taking into the dynamic interactions of local, national, regional, and transnational interactions shaping education systems around the world. Our theoretical and methodological strategy established a standard textbook for introducing the field of comparative education from various theoretical and methodological perspectives.
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Introduction: Reframing Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local Robert F. Arnove
Institutionalizing 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 Antonio 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
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Edited by Carlos Alberto Torres; Robert F. Arnove and Lauren Ila Misiaszek
