Mark Bray (ed.), Comparative Education – Continuing Traditions, New Challenges, and New Paradigms

Abstract

A special issue on continuing traditions, new challenges, and new paradigms in comparative education is presented. Articles discuss the future of comparative and international education in a globalized world; indigenous wisdoms and knowledges in higher education; methodological insights from the international schools sector in Hong Kong; educational policies in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1990s; decentralization and educational reform in Siberia and the Russian Far East; the impact of social change and economic transformation on adult education and lifelong learning in post-Soviet Russia; approaches to global education in the United States, England, and Japan; elementary schooling in China and India; cultural and school-grade differences in Korean and white American children's narrative skills; childhood ideology in the United States; the meanings of work and vocation/profession in the Chinese context and their implications for vocational education; and what children in Western Europe and eastern Asia have lost as a result of the modernization of education. An introduction to the special issue is also provided.