Changing Educational Contexts, Issues and Identities

Introduction. Forty years of Comparative Education: Changing Contexts, Issues and Identities 1. Editorial 2. The Purpose of Comparative Education 3. Comparative Education Research and Development Education 4. Case Study in Comparative Education: particularity and generalisation 5. Changing Patterns of Educational Accountability in England and France 6. The Role of African Universities in National Development: a critical analysis 7. The American Perception of Japanese Education 8. Education in the Baltic States, Ukraine, Belarus' and Russia 9. Learning and Working: elements of the diploma disease thesis examined in England and Malaysia 10. Last Past the Post: comparative education, modernity and perhaps post-modernity 11. Continuing Education in a Late-modern or Global Society: towards a theoretical framework for comparative analysis 12. Education and Colonial Transition in Singapore and Hong Kong: comparisons and contrasts 13. The Institutionalisation of Gender and its Impact on Educational Policy 14. Big Policies/Small World: an introduction to international perspectives in educational policy 15. Globalisation and Internationalism: democratic prospects for world education 16. Bridging Cultures and Traditions in the Reconceptualisation of Comparative and International Education 17. Globalisation and Education in the Postcolonial World: towards a conceptual framework 18. Comparing Neo-liberal Projects and Inequality in Education 19. Comparative Education in Greater China: contexts, characteristics, contrasts and contributions 20. Comparative Research in Education: a mode of governance or a historical journey? 21. Processes of Policy Borrowing in Education: some explanatory and analytical devices 22. Debating Globalisation and Education After September 11