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Cowen, Robert – Comparative Education, 2020
This note is an invited "post-scriptum" where the 'script' is the articles in this volume. No effort will be made to summarise the articles. The intent is contemplative: to mull over how comparative education changes and, within that broad motif, to think about the role of 'our' foreigners. The mulling is self-indulgent, somewhat…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Nationals, History, Sociology
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Kim, Terri – Comparative Education, 2020
Many of the iconic figures in the history of comparative education were trans-national polyglot scholars. Several key thinkers and actors in the formative years of the institutionalisation of comparative education notably in London and New York were either émigré or migrant scholars (i.e. Kandel, Hans, Ulrich, Lauwerys, Bereday). There are many…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Nationals, Immigrants, Professional Identity
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Unterhalter, Elaine – Comparative Education, 2020
The article is an attempt to explore through the lens of my identification as a foreigner, a number of different themes around work in comparative education, particularly aspects of the question of method, and some reflections on the relationship with education and international development. The discussion begins with some reflection on internal…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences
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Takayama, Keita – Comparative Education, 2020
In this paper, I reflect upon my journey of learning to do comparative education research over the last decade and half. It involves transnational moves from Japan, Canada, US, Australia and back to Japan where I encountered numerous 'others'. I use my story of a series of relocations as an entry point for theorising what I mean by 'negative'…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Research, Foreign Nationals, Philosophy
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Kim, Stephanie K. – Comparative Education, 2016
Does the internationalisation of Asian higher education give preference to Western faculty members, especially against the backdrop of internationalisation trends that call for an importation of Western pedagogical practices, ideas, and standards? This article seeks to complicate such a claim through close examination of the Western faculty…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, College Faculty, Foreign Nationals
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Alexiadou, Nafsika; van de Bunt-Kokhuis, Sylvia – Comparative Education, 2013
This article presents a comparative analysis of two country-specific cases. The comparative analysis is situated within the broad domain of the changing knowledge economy landscape for educational policy. The two cases examine the transfer, embedding and enactment of policies during the interactions between supranational, national, institutional…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Governance, Foreign Countries, Case Studies