Comparative education

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Comparative education is a fully established academic field of study
that examines education in one country (or
group of countries) by using data and insights drawn from the practises and
situation in another country, or countries. Programs and courses in comparative
education are offered in many universities throughout the world, and relevant
studies are regularly published in scholarly journals such as Comparative
Education, International Review of Education, Mediterranean
Journal of Educational Studies,International Journal of Educational
Development, Comparative
Education Review, and Current
Issues in Comparative Education. The field of comparative education is
supported by many projects associated with UNESCO and the national education
ministries of various nations.

Contents

1 Objectives and
Scope

2 Rationale for the
Field

3 Disciplinary
Identity

3.1 Comparative and
International Education Society

4 See also

5 Influential
Scholars

6 Further reading

6.1 Major Reference
Handbooks

6.2 Other
Resources

7 External links

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Objectives and Scope

According to Harold
J Noah (1985), and Dr.Farooq Joubish (2009), comparative education has four
purposes:

To describe educational systems, processes, or outcomes.

To assist in the development of educational institutions and practices.

To highlight the relationships between education and society.

To establish generalized statements about education that are valid in more
than one country.

Comparative education is often incorrectly assumed to exclusively encompass
studies that compare two or more different countries. In fact, since its early
days researchers in this field have often eschewed such approaches, preferring
rather to focus on comparisons within a single country over time. Still, some
large scale projects, such as the PISA and TIMSS studies, have
made important findings through explicitly comparative macroanalysis of massive
data sets.

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Rationale for the
Field

Many important educational questions can best be examined from an
international-comparative perspective. For example, in the United
States there is no nationwide certificate of completion of secondary education.
This raises the question of what the advantages and disadvantages are of leaving
such certification to each of the 50 states. Comparative education draws on the
experience of countries such as Japan and France to show how a centralized
system works, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of centralized
certification.

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Disciplinary
Identity

Comparative education is closely allied to, and may overlap with, international
education, international
development education, and comparative
sociology.

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Comparative and International Education Society

The Comparative
and International Education Society (CIES) was founded in 1956 to foster
"cross-cultural understanding, scholarship, academic achievement, and societal
development through the international study of educational ideas, systems, and
practices."

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See also

World
Council for Comparative Education Societies

International
Society for Comparative Adult Education

Comparative
Education Review

Comparative
research

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Influential Scholars

Don
Adams

Robin
Alexander

Philip
G. Altbach

Kathryn
Anderson-Levitt

Robert
Arnove

David
P. Baker

Lesley
Bartlett

Aaron
Benavot

John
Boli

Mark
Bray

Nicholas Burbules

Martin
Carnoy

Robert Cowen

Michael Crossley

Max
Eckstein

Erwin
H. Epstein

Joseph Farrell

Mark
Ginsburg

Ivor
Goodson

Gottfried
Hausmann

Brian Holmes

Torsten Husen

Gail
P. Kelly

Gerald
K. LeTendre

Gita
Steiner-Khamsi

Henry Levin

Noel
McGinn

John W. Meyer

Harold J. Noah

Lynn
W. Paine

Rolland
G. Paulston

David Phillips

Francisco
O. Ramirez

Fernando Reimers

Jürgen
Schriewer

Michele
Schweisfurth

Yasemin
N. Soysal

Ronald G. Sultana

Carlos
Torres

Erik
Wiseman

Farooq
Joubish

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Further reading

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Major Reference
Handbooks

Educational Research, Methodology and Measurement: An International
Handbook. 2nd ed. Edited by J.P. Keeves. New York: Pergamon, 1997.

International Handbook of Research in Arts Education. Edited by Liora
Bresler. New York: Springer, 2006.

International Encyclopedia of Adult Education and Training. 2nd ed. Edited
by Albert C. Tuijnman. Oxford, UK; Tarrytown, NY: Pergamon, 1996.

International Encyclopedia of National Systems of Education. 2nd ed.
Edited by T. Neville Postlethwaite. Tarrytown, NY: Pergamon, 1995.

International Handbook of Educational Change. Edited by Andy Hargreaves,
et al. Boston,: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration.
Edited by Kenneth Leithwood, et al. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1996.

International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching. Edited by Bruce J.
Biddle, Thomas L. Good, Ivor F. Goodson. Boston,: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
1998.

International Handbook of Women's Education. Edited by Gail P. Kelly. New
York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

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Other Resources

Altbach, Philip G. Comparative Higher Education: Knowledge, the
University, and Development. Greenwich, CT: Ablex Pub. Corp.,1998.

Emergent Issues in Education: Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Robert
F. Arnove, Philip G. Altbach, and Gail P. Kelly. Albany, NY: State University
of New York Press, 1992.

Arnove, R. and Torres, C. eds (1999) Comparative Education: The Dialectic
of the Global and the Local. Oxford: Rowan and Littlefield.

International Perspectives on Educational Reform and Policy
Implementation. Edited by David S.G. Carter and Marnie H. O'Neill. Washington,
DC: Falmer Press, 1995.

Quality Assurance in Higher Education: An International Perspective.
Edited by Gerald H. Gaither. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.

Higher Education Policy: An International Comparative Perspective. Edited
by Leo Goedegebuure, et al. New York: Pergamon Press, 1994.

David G. Hebert. Music Competition, Cooperation, and Community: An
Ethnography of a Japanese School Band (Ann Arbor: Proquest/UMI, 2005).

Alexandra Kertz-Welzel. "Didaktik of Music: A German Concept and its
Comparison to American Music Pedagogy." International Journal of Music
Education (Practice) 22 No. 3 (2004): 277-286.

Harold J. Noah and Max A. Eckstein. Toward a Science of Comparative
Education (New York: Macmillan, 1969).

Harold J. Noah and Max A. Eckstein. Secondary School Examinations:
International Perspectives on Policies and Practice (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1993). ISBN
0-300-05393-2.

Harold J. Noah and Max A. Eckstein. Doing Comparative Education: Three
Decades of Collaboration (Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong Press, 1998).
ISBN
962-8093-87-8

Gottlieb, Esther E. Are We Postmodern Yet? Historical and Theoretical Explorations in
Comparative Education. In, International Companion to Education, eds.
Ben-Peretz Goober.Routledge, 2000

Mazawi, A.E. & Sultana, R.G. (eds)(2010). Education and the Arab
'World'. Political Project, Struggles, and Geometries of Power. (New York:
Routledge). ISBN
978-0-415-80034-1

Reagan, Timothy G. Non-Western Educational Traditions : Alternative
Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum
Associates, 1996.

Vulliamy, G., Lewin, K. and Stephens, D. (1990) Doing Educational Research
in Developing Countries: Qualitative Strategies. Lewes: Falmer Press.

Higher Education in an International Perspective : Critical Issues.
Edited by Zaghloul Morsy and Philip G. Altbach. New York: Garland Pub., 1996.

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External links

World
Council of Comparative Education Societies

Comparative and International Education: A Bibliography
(2004)

NCCRESt Bibliography (2000)

Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)

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