Author Description

Introduction: reframing comparative education: the dialectic of the global and the local / Robert F. Arnove -- Institutionalizing international influence / Joel Samoff -- Economics, education, and society: myths and possibilities / Steven Klees -- The state, social movements and education: between reform and transformation / Raymond Morrow and Carlos Alberto Torres -- Culture and education / Vandra Lea Masemann -- The question of identity from a comparative education perspective / Christine Fox -- Equality of education: six decades of comparative evidence seen from a new millennium / Joseph P. Farrell -- Women's education in the twenty-first century / Nelly P. Stromquist -- Control of education: issues and tensions in centralization and decentralization / Mark Bray -- Transforming adult and community education: a theory of literacies for analysing change in Grenada's revolution and after / Anne Hickling-Hudson -- Between the state, society and global markets: three roles of higher education / Susan Wiksten & Daniel Schugurensky -- Education in Africa: not remediation but transformation and innovation / Joel Samoff & Bidemi Carrol -- Education in Latin America: from dependency and neoliberalism to alternative paths to development / Robert F. Arnove, Stephen Franz, Carlos Ornelas & Carlos Alberto Torres -- The education of youngsters in conflict-ridden regions of the Middle East: challenges and opportunities / Muzna Awayed-Bishara -- Education in the Asia-Pacific region: achievements and challenges / John Hawkins & Anthony Welch -- Living well together as educators in our oceanic 'sea of islands': epistemology and ontology of comparative education / Kabini Sanga, David Fa'avae, Martyn Reynolds -- The political construction of European education / Antonio Teodoro -- Education in Eastern and Central Europe: re-thinking post-socialism in the context of globalization / Ben Eklof & Iveta Silova -- Technocracy, uncertainty, and ethics: comparative education i