Now in its 5th edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local has established itself as the state-of-the art, comprehensive as well as complex 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 for this volume has proven effective as a standard textbook for introducing the field of comparative education from various theoretical and methodological perspectives.The 5th edition welcomes Lauren Misasziek of Beijing National University as co-editor.
Robert F. Arnove, lead co-editor of the previous four editions of Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the 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. Since 2013, Lauren Ila Misiaszek (PhD, UCLA) has been Associate Professor in the Institute of International and Comparative Education at Beijing Normal University. 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. Carlos 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 Sao 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.
Introduction: Reframing Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local Robert F. Arnove Institutionalizing International Influence Joel Samoff Economics, Education, and Society: Myths and Possibilities Steven Klees The State, Social Movements and Education: Between Reform and Transformation Raymond Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres Culture and Education Vandra Lea Masemann The Question of Identity from a Comparative Education Perspective Christine Fox Equality of Education: Six Decades of Comparative Evidence Seen from a New Millennium Joseph P. Farrell Women's Education in the Twenty-First Century Nelly P. Stromquist Control of Education: Issues and Tensions in Centralization and Decentralization Mark Bray Transforming adult and community education: a theory of literacies for analysing change in Grenada's revolution and after Anne Hickling-Hudson Between 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 Carrol Education in Latin America: From Dependency and Neoliberalism to Alternative Paths to Development Robert F. Arnove, Stephen Franz, Carlos Ornelas & Carlos Alberto Torres The Education of Youngsters in Conflict-Ridden Regions of the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities Muzna Awayed-Bishara Education 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 Reynolds The Political Construction of European Education Antonio Teodoro Education 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 Welch Comparative Education: The Dialectics of Globalization and Its Discontents Carlos Alberto Torres
As a global educational scholar primarily focused upon global literacies, I welcome this volume as I believe it represents what I view as a zeitgeist occurring in the global arena. The chapters in the volume discuss the interruptions to our worlds as a result of socio-political, health and other developments that have occurred interrogating them enlisting postcolonialism, Indigeneity, racism, gender, gender and other critical lenses. The editors enlist the notion of dialectic to portray the tensions between local, national and global events and how they fuse with or disrupt the various story lines within the field of comparative education-the nature of its science and role in educational as well as socio-political developments across the globe, nationally, regionally and locally. The fifth edition offers a multidimensional discussion of global-local transactions on a planetary scale that better fit with reading our worlds beyond what comparative education scholars have provided prior. The volume's contributors leverage discussions of planetary significance essential to the critical literacies and reflexivity of individuals, communities and larger society. -- Rob Tierney, University of British Columbia
