Doing Comparative Education Research: issues and problems

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The chapters that appear in this book are based on a series of papers that were first presented at the inaugural conference of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) held at the University of Reading in September 1998. The chapters are: Introduction: rethinking the role of comparative education / Keith Watson; Comparative educational research: the need for reconceptualisation and fresh insights / Keith Watson; Reconceptualising comparative and international education / Michael Crossley; Contextual and methodological influences on trends in comparative and international educational research / Rosemary Preston; Stones from other hills may serve to polish the jade of this one: towards a 'comparology' of education / Patricia Broadfood; Conducting research into EU education and training policy: some theoretical and methodological considerations / David Phillips and Anastasia Economou; Life in school: pupil perspectives and pupil experience of schooling and learning in three European countries / Marilyn Osborn; Learners' diversity: the integration of Maghrebi children in mainstream classrooms in Spain / Juan Navarro; Schools, universities and society in England and Germany / Claudius Gellert; Going places: social, legal and fiscal aspects of international faculty mobility / Sylvia G.M. van de Bunt-Kokhuis; Approaches to comparing education systems / Joanna Le Metais; Gleaning meaning from case studies in international comparison: teachers' experiences of reform in Russia and South Africa / Michele Schweisfurth; Doing comparative historical education research: problems and issues from and about Hong Kong / Anthony Sweeting; Post-colonialism and comparative education research / Leon Tikly; Confessions of a long distance runner: reflections from an international and comparative education research project / Simon McGrath; A dance on six floors: some issues of ownership and collaboration within the MUSTER (Multi-site Teacher Education Research) Project / Janet S. Stuart; The evaluation of education development projects and bureaucratic cultures: prospects for the education sector within the context created by the white paper on international development / Colin Lacey and Angela Jacklin; Classifying out of school education / Edwina Peart; International examinations, national systems and the global market / John Lowe; The development of a discipline: some reflections on the development of comparative education as seen through the pages of the journal 'Compare' / J.H. Higginson.

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