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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793309903321

Autore

Carnoy Martin

Titolo

Transforming comparative education : fifty years of theory building at Stanford / / Martin Carnoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-5036-0882-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages)

Disciplina

370.195

Soggetti

Comparative education

International education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Strands of Comparative and International Education: A Brief History -- 2. How One Comparative Education Program Managed to Survive and Make Its Mark on the Field -- 3. The 1960's and 1970's: Human Capital -- 4. The 1970's: Comparative Education and Modernity -- 5. The 1970's: Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and Comparative Education -- 6. The 1970's and 1980's: World Society Theory and Comparative Education -- 7. The 1980's: The Politics of Education: Legitimation, Reform, and Knowledge -- 8. The 1980's: The State and Comparative Education -- 9. The 1990's: Comparative Education and the Impact of Globalization -- 10. The 2000's: Impact Evaluation and Comparative Education -- 11. The 2000's: International Tests and Comparative Education -- 12. Where Is Theory Headed in International and Comparative Education? -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past fifty years, new theoretical approaches to comparative and international education have transformed it as an academic field. We know that fields of research are often shaped by "collectives" of researchers and students converging at auspicious times throughout history. Part institutional memoir and part intellectual history, Transforming Comparative Education takes the Stanford "collective" as a framework for discussing major trends and contributions to the field



from the early 1960s to the present day, and beyond. Carnoy draws on interviews with researchers at Stanford to present the genesis of their key theoretical findings in their own words. Moving through them chronologically, Carnoy situates each work within its historical context, and argues that comparative education is strongly influenced by its economic and political environment. Ultimately, he discusses the potential influence of feminist theory, organizational theory, impact evaluation, world society theory, and state theory on comparative work in the future, and the political and economic changes that might inspire new directions in the field.