Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local

Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local, Second Edition examines the common problems facing education systems around the world as the result of global economic, social, and cultural forces. Issues related to the governance, financing, provision, processes, and outcomes of education systems for differently situated social groups are described and analyzed in specific regional, national, and local contexts.

Added in this edition is a concluding chapter by Carlos Torres describing the current challenges and new directions for scholarship and teaching in comparative education. Chapters discussing education in the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, Russian/Eastern Europe, and Africa have been updated to reflect the changes in these regions and emerging educational trends and politics.

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Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, UK, Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education.

Carlos Alberto Torres is Distinguished Professor of Education, UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, and Director of the Paulo Freire Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He is President of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, Founding Director of the Paulo Freire Institutes in Sa~o Paulo, Buenos Aires and at UCLA, and Past President of the Comparative International Education Society (CIES).

CARLOS ALBERTO TORRES is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Widely published in Mexico and Latin America, he is the author or editor of twelve previous works in Spanish as well as numerous articles, reviews, and papers. A forthcomingbook, with Daniel A. Morales-Gomez in English, is entitled The State, Corporatist Politics, and Educational Policy Making in Mexico (New York: Praeger, 1990).