This book is a remarkable feat of scholarship ― so remarkable in fact that I put it in the same league as the great classics of the field that had so much to do with setting the direction of Comparative Education. Indeed, this volume goes further than earlier classics to reveal, through textual analysis and interviews with key figures, how the epistemological foundations of the field and crucial professional developments combined to, as the title indicates, construct Comparative Education.  Manzon’s work is indispensable ― a word I do not use lightly ― for scholars who seek a genuine grasp of the field: how it was formed and by whom, its major theoreticians, its professional foundations, and so on. Clearly too, this book marks the rise of a young star, Maria Manzon, who shows promise of joining the ranks of our field’s most illustrious thinkers.  Erwin H. Epstein Director, Center for Comparative Education Loyola University, Chicago, USA

Comparative Education: The Construction of a Field (CERC Studies in Comparative Education, 29)

Manzon, Maria

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Springer

<p>The World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) was established in 1970 as an umbrella body which brought together five national and regional comparative education societies. Over the decades it greatly expanded, and now embraces three dozen societies. This book presents histories of the WCCES and its member societies. It shows ways in which the field has changed over the decades, and the forces which have shaped it in different parts of the world. The book demonstrates that while comparative education can be seen as a single global field, it has different characteristics in different countries and cultures. In this sense, the book presents a comparison of comparisons.</p>

Common Interests, Uncommon Goals: Histories of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and Its Members (Cerc Studies in Comparative Education)

Education & Teaching

Bray, Mark

Masemann, Vandra

Schools & Teaching

Comparative Education Research Centre, Hong Kong University

Governments worldwide are increasingly advocating parental and community partnerships in education. This monograph explores the evolution of parental and community partnerships in Hong Kong and Singapore, and the local and global forces that have shaped those partnerships. It focuses on the work of two government advisory bodies established to spearhead partnership advocacy the Committee on Home-School operation (CHSC) in Hong Kong, and Community and Parents in Support of Schools (COMPASS) in Singapore. Key policy actors and local academics in the two states were interviewed to gain insiders' perspectives on the 'micro-politics' of educational partnership. Comparative educators, ministries of education, and educational policy makers will gain from this book a penetrating insight into parent-school-community partnership in a pair of Asian contexts, and may find some good practices and lessons.

Building Alliances: Schools, Parents, and Communities in Hong Kong and Singapore (CERC Monograph, 3)

<p>Despite its long history and widespread institutionalisation into university academic courses, professional sacieties, and specialist books and journals, questions about the identity and nature of comparative education remain. That the field of comparativ</p>

Comparative Education: The Construction of a Field (Cerc Studies in Comparative Education)

Hong Kong University Press

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Comparative Education: The Construction of a Field (CERC Studies in Comparative Education, 29)

Common Interests, Uncommon Goals: Histories of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and Its Members (Cerc Studies in Comparative Education)

Building Alliances: Schools, Parents, and Communities in Hong Kong and Singapore (CERC Monograph, 3)

Comparative Education: The Construction of a Field (Cerc Studies in Comparative Education)