From Europe and the USA to Sub-Saharan Africa and the emerging economic powers of Brazil, China and India, this book is an essential one-volume guide to the major issues in comparative and international education today and the insights that rigorous and appropriate study can offer for education provision, policy and practice.

Education Around the World provides a complete introduction to the field including:

The history of the study of comparative and international education and why it matters today
Issues of scale in the conduct of thorough comparative research
National and international educational development
The particular challenges facing educational provision in small states

About the Author

Colin Brock is Senior Research Fellow at University of Oxford, UK, and specialises in Comparative and International Education. He holds a UNESCO Chair in the field of Education as a Humanitarian Response.

Nafsika Alexiadou is Professor of Education at the Department of Applied Educational Science, University of Ume�, Sweden.

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