The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE)

Sutherland, Margaret B.; Watson, Keith; Crossley, Michael W

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6925-3_13

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“…This resulted from the amalgamation of two former societies that previously served separate comparative and international constituencies (Watson 2001;Sutherland et al 2006). Organisationally, this represented a bridging of two related but distinctive academic and professional cultures -the comparative and the international.…”

Section: Bridging Cultures and Traditionsmentioning

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Bridging Cultures and Traditions for Educational and International Development: Comparative Research, Dialogue and Difference

Crossley

2008

Int Rev Educ

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Addressing the central theme of the XIII World Congress, the paper explores a number of contemporary theoretical, methodological and organisational developments in the field of comparative education. In doing so it draws upon the author's recent work and a selection of studies carried out in the South Pacific, the Caribbean and Africa. It is argued that disciplined comparative and international research can contribute much to the development of theory and methodology -as well as to the improvement of policy and practice in education world-wide. For this to be realised it is maintained that ongoing efforts to challenge and 'reconceptualise' the field deserve sustained support -and increased attention to a more effective 'bridging of cultures and traditions'. This 'bridging' thesis is examined in greater depth, pointing to possible ways forward for those engaged in advancing the future of comparative research in education and in the social sciences more generally.

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Section: Bridging Cultures and Traditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%