DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Studies in Education

Emma Smith editor Larry E Suter editor Brian Denman editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd

Published:28th Jun '19

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Studies in Education cover

Educational practices have rapidly changed in the last few decades, especially in how exchanges of information and learning are delivered and processed. Yet, while the field of international comparative studies has grown, there has not been an extensive study on the relationship between educational practices, students, and how practitioners are prepared and trained. This handbook explores international educational practices and behaviours through new research and a review of existing research, with chapters spread across six parts:

Part I: Introduction to Research Practices in Comparative Studies of Education
Part II: Research Methods
Part III: Policy Transfer Research through International Comparisons
Part IV: Use of Student time in Formal and Informal Settings
Part V: School Practices from Early Childhood through Secondary School
Part VI: Conclusion - Lessons from Large Scale Studies

 

Larry Suter, Emma Smith, and Brian Denman have done a great service to the field of comparative educational research with this excellent volume.  The breadth of content spanning theory, methodology, and policy is truly amazing, and the outstanding authors that agreed to write chapters for the volume guarantees that this book will become a standard source on comparative educational research in the years to come. 


-- David Kaplan

A handbook on comparative studies in education needs to be international in its sources, contemporary in its outlook, but at the same time acknowledging the very long historical trajectory of such work.  It also needs to be eclectic in the methodologies represented and critical in its approach.  This volume succeeds in meeting all of these requirements and will provide enormous support to scholars around the world for many years to come.


-- Ian Me

ISBN: 9781526419460

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1360g

682 pages