1st Edition
Bridging Cultures and Traditions in Comparative and International Education Four Decades of Continuity and Change
Introduction PART 1: Bridging Cultures and Traditions 1. Reconceptualising comparative and international education 2. Bridging cultures and traditions in the reconceptualisation of comparative and international education 3. Postcolonial perspectives and comparative and international research in education 4. Reconceptualising the teaching of comparative and international education PART 2: Education Policy Transfer and Context Sensitivity 5. Strategies for curriculum change and the question of international transfer 6. Global league tables, big data and the international transfer of educational research modalities 7. Policy transfer, sustainable development and the contexts of education PART 3: Qualitative Research and Epistemic Justice 8. Case-study research methods and comparative education 9. Issues and trends in qualitative research: potential for developing countries 10. Prioritising social, environmental and epistemic justice for comparative and international research in education PART 4: Educational and Environmental Development in Small States 11. Whose knowledge, whose values? The contribution of local knowledge to education policy processes 12. Education for sustainable development: implications for small island developing states 13. Commonwealth small states, education and environmental uncertainty: learning from the Sharp End
Biography
Michael Crossley, FAcSS, is Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Education, Senior Research Fellow, and Founding Director of the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) at the University of Bristol, UK.
