With a foreword by Professor Erwin H. Epstein.
A unique introduction to this important field, providing a comprehensive overview of the key themes, including:- defining comparative and international education- how comparative studies in education have developed- methodological approaches to comparative and international education research- the relationship between education and national development- the power of comparative studies in investigating student achievement and school effectiveness- what comparative studies have taught us about educational issues such as policy borrowing, processes of transition, post-conflict education, education in small states, pedagogy, and citizenship.
David Phillips is Professor of Comparative Education and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and Director of the Centre for Comparative Studies in Education, UK. He has written widely on issues in comparative education, with a focus on education in Germany and on educational policy borrowing. He was for twenty years Editor of the
Oxford Review of Education and serves on editorial boards of various journals, including
Comparative Education. Michele Schweisfurth is Reader in Comparative and International Education and Director of the Centre for International Education and Research, University of Birmingham, UK.
Erwin Epstein is Professor in the School of Education and Director of the Center for Comparative Education at Loyola University, Chicago, USA.