Origins and Traditions in Comparative Education
This volume aims to expand knowledge about the history of comparative education. It explores new scholarship on key actors and ways of knowing in the field. It aims to raise awareness on the positionality of historical narratives about this field of inquiry and offers a re-think of its histories.
Since comparative education has always been embedded within a global field of power, what would the changing world order’s implications be for the institutional and intellectual histories of the field? This book offers diverse perspectives for re-theorising the histories of comparative education. It suggests casting a far-sighted and panoramic look at the field’s origins. The volume concludes with a puzzle for future work on a global history of comparative education.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education.
Maria Manzon is Assistant Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong. She is an Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Education Journal. She is also a Board Member of the Comparative Education Society of Asia and was previously Chair of the Admissions and New Societies Standing Committee of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies.