Re-Imaginining Comparative Education

This book provides clear and concise discussions of key elements of contemporary social theories (such as post-modernism, poststructualism, and political theory) and their application to the field of comparative education, as well as a range of essays that serve as examples of research applying these theories. It is a radical, timely and provocative re-imagining of the field of comparative education.

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Table of contents : Introduction: Re-Imagining Comparative Education Peter Ninnes and Sonia Mehta
1. A meander through the Maze: Comparative Education and Post-Foundational Studies Peter Ninnes and Sonia Mehta
2. 'Post' Cards from a Pdeogogical Edge Sonia Mehta
3. Critical Discourse Analysis and Comparative Education Peter Ninnes
4. Deconstructing Educational Discourse in Kiribati: Postcolonial Encounters Greg Burnett
5. State, Education, and Citizenship Discourses and the Construction of Gendered Identities in Pakistan Muhammad Ayaz Naseem
6. Native Speaker Discourses: Power and Resistance in Postcolonial Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages Nuzhat Amin and Ryuko Kubota
7. Making the Twenty-First Century Quality Teacher: A Post-Foundational Comparative Approach Marianne Larsen
8. Power and Knowledge in Comparative Perspective: The Lysenko Affair William Dejong Lambert
9. School Photographs as Tension: Reflections about Using Photographs in Comparative Educational Research Gustavo E. Fischman and Gabriela Cruder
10. Postcolonial Theory in and for Comparative Education Peter Ninnes and Gregory Burnett
11. A Postcolonial Rereading of the Contemporary Internationalization Movement of Japanese Education: The Construction of 'Japaneseness' in a Globalized World Yuko Mochizuki
12. Third-Space/Identity Montage and International Adult Educators Leona M. English
13. Post-Development Theory and Comparative Education Jonathan Makuwira and Peter Ninnes
14. Mapping Diverse Perspectives on School Decentralization: The Global Debate and the Case of Argentina Jorge M. Gorostiaga and Rolland G. Paulston