Welcome to Comparative Education!
This course explores educational goals, policies and practices around the world through a comparative lens. The field of Comparative Education is built on the foundation that comparisons of education policies and practices across countries can help think critically about other systems. We will examine specific cases and discuss their application to other contexts.
The course is organized in two main parts:
1. The first part of the course will serve as an introduction to the field of Comparative and International Education. We will critically examine the colonial and postcolonial roots of comparative education and the distribution of power among the actors in the field, and more generally in education policy design.
2. The second part of the course will focus on examining a range of important topics in the field. The focus of the international education community has shifted in recent years from increasing access to formal schooling to all children and communities to improving the quality of instruction.
- Teacher: Nelcie Mabini