In recent decades there has been an increasing number of parents opting for alternative forms of education worldwide. However, most studies on this phenomenon are conducted within Western contexts, while little is known about alternative education in China. This paper addresses this gap by providing an overview of alternative education in China…

The article seeks to formulate a comparative framework that explains the uneven development of schooling in Cyprus and Singapore during the British colonial rule. It specifically focuses on the moment of transition to independence and on the role played by ideas and the interaction of ideas in the evolution of social institutions. The overall…

This article examines the synergy between a long established discipline, geography, and the younger discipline of educational studies, especially its component, comparative education. Although this synergy was recognised by the founding father of comparative education, Michael Sadler, and one of his principal followers, George Bereday, the…

This piece concerns the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom over the course of some 170-180 years from the early/mid-1800s to the present. It is argued that, despite the expectations of nationalists such as Timothy Corcoran, writing in the immediate aftermath of independence, to whom it seemed both desirable and inevitable that…

Occupying a crucial economic role in supporting capitalism through the supply of oil, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a very-high income, early-development stage nation with high annual economic growth levels but low levels of labour market participation by its citizens. The national higher education system was established in 1977 and offers a…

This article is an initial attempt to illustrate how patterns of academic mobility in the history of universities have been framed by the international politics of particular time periods. The article briefly looks at "the medieval period" and then at the emergent colonial and nationalist periods, including the ways that institutions as…

Suggests that comparative education tries to obtain an idea of the development and differentiation of the modern educational structure.

The impact on educational analysis of mainstream international relations (IR) theories is yet to realize its full potential. The problem of education in relation to the construction of world order is considered in relation to core developments in IR theory since the Second World War. In particular, the global architecture of education is seen as a…

The purpose of this paper is to consider against the background of the current situation of the Black in American schools, two questions: what insight does literature give to the present position and future prospect of Negro education and secondly do these insights suggest parallels in other societies? (Author)

This article sketched the history of education in Chinese cities during the 20th century to show that although no necessary connection between urban schools and bourgeois values exists that, nonetheless, in China such a connection was a historical reality. (Author/RK)

Considers the history of educational practice in Europe and how Britain's new European contacts should be a catalyst for new and productive interdependence within the European Community. (Author/RK)

In a world increasingly attentive to the educational needs of preschool children, the French "ecole maternelle" occupies a position of special eminence. This research compares preschool provision in England and France and simultaneously examines the degree that the "ecole maternelle" is open and informal in its ethos.…

Article investigated briefly both the historical developments, particularly in Britain, and the current trends towards using the latest technology in the rest of Europe. (Author/RK)

The forces at work in the relatively brief history of Trinidad and Tobago were sketched in order to provide a background for the current situation. The paper then described and analyzed the new directions taken or proposed in education in the light of its new political, social and economic circumstances. (Author/RK)

The author suggests that observing the difficulties and failures of plans and programs for educational development over the last two decades makes it easy to become a sceptic about the fact that the age of innocence underestimates the extent and complexity of the knowledge base needed for sound choices in educational policy. (KC)