Last Past the Post: comparative education, modernity and perhaps post-modernity
Title:
Last Past the Post: comparative education, modernity and perhaps post-modernity
Author:
Cowen, Robert
Appeared in:
Comparative education
Paging:
Volume 32 (1996) nr. 2 pages 151-170
Year:
1996-06-01
Contents:
Comparative education, as a university field of study, has been late in addressing issues of post-modernity. The first argument, through an analysis of the history of comparative education, indicates why this is so. The second argument, construed through ideal-typical models of 'modern' and 'late-modern' educational systems, suggests one way to think about changing patterns of formal education in a globalising world. The third argument, notably through a stress on 'transitology', identifies some difficulties in such an ideal-typical approach. The conclusion suggests that we should recover some of our less publicised ways of thinking comparatively and sketches a contemporary research agenda that might assist both specialists and non-specialists to work together on a 'new' comparative education.
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