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Comparative Education: The Construction of a Field
Author(s): Maria Manzon (Author)
- Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
- Publication Date: February 1, 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 988178526X
- ISBN-13: 9789881785268
Book Description
Despite its long history and widespread institutionalisation into university academic courses, professional sacieties, and specialist books and journals, questions about the identity and nature of comparative education remain. That the field of comparativ
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“This book is a remarkable feat of scholarship ― so remarkable in fact that I put it in the same league as the great classics of the field that had so much to do with setting the direction of Comparative Education. Indeed, this volume goes further than ea
Manzon’s work is indispensable ― a word I do not use lightly ― for scholars who seek a genuine grasp of the field how it was formed and by whom, its major theoreticians, its professional foundations, and so on. Clearly too, this book marks the rise of a y
About the Author
Maria Manzon is a Research Associate of the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Hong Kong. She was Editor of CIEclopedia in 2009 and 2010, and Assistant Secretary General of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) in 2005.
