“It is … weighty in a conceptual sense and adds significantly to the field of comparative education. The editors are distinguished figures in the field … . They have assembled a wide range of contributors including many well-known authors; and their Handbook has both breadth and depth. … the Handbook indeed achieves its goal of assessing the past and present of the field, and of suggesting future directions. It will serve as a lasting benchmark and reference, both for individual chapters and in its entirety.” (Mark Bray, International Review of Education, Vol. 57 (1-2), April, 2011)
Preface.- Section 1: THE CREATION AND RE-CREATION OF A field.- 1. Joint Editors’ Introduction.- 2. Cowen - short Editorial.- 3. Kaloyiannaki and Kazamias.- 4. Kazamias.- 5. Mattheou.- 6. Olmos and Torres.- 7. Mitter.- 8. Arnove.- 9. Val Rust.- 10. Kazamias.- Section 2: POLITICAL FORMATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS.- 11. Kazamias - short Editorial.- 12. McCulloch.- 13. Madeira.- 14. Palomba.- 15. Pereyra.- 16. Kazamias.- 17. Law.- 18. Metzler.- 19. Silova.- 20. Garrido.- Section 3: THE NATIONAL, THE INTERNATIONAL, AND THE GLOBAL.- 21. Cowen – short Editorial.- 22. Beech.- 23. Sobe.- 24. Coulby.- 25. Popkewitz.- 26. Grant.- 27. Kendall.- 28. Rizvi.- 29. Castro.- 30. Pasias & Roussakis.- Section 4: INDUSTRIALISATION, KNOWLEDGE ECONOMIES AND EDUCATION.- 31. Cowen – short Editorial.- 32. Carl.- 33. Ferreira.- 34. Bash.- 35. Neave.- 36. Weymans.- 37. Welch.- 38. Jarvis.- 39. Gamarnikow.- 40. Karadja & Lambropoulos.- Section 5: Postcolonialism.- 41. Unterhalter – short Editorial.- 42. Sharma.- 43. Ramchandran.- 44. Chisholm and Leyendecker.- 45. Bhana.- 46. McCowan.- 47. Parkes.- 48. Rampal.- 49. Carrim.- 50. Unterhalter.- Section 6: CULTURES, Knowledge and Pedagogies.- 51. Kazamias – short Editorial.- 52. Lawton.- 53. Winther-Jensen.- 54. Figueiredo and Gvirtz.- 55. Kim.- 56. Elder.- 57. Ashkenazi.- 58. Grace.- 59. Alexander.- 60. Hargreaves.- Section 7: NEW THINKING.- 61. Cowen – short Editorial.- 62. Paulston.- 63. Apple & Au.- 64. Gundara.- 65. Stromquist.- 66. Larsen.- 67. Phillips.- 68. Kazamias – Agamemnon contra Prometheus.- 69. Dale and Robertson.- 70. McLaughlin.- Section 8: The Cutting Edge: questioning the Future.- 71. Steiner-Khamsi.- 72. Brown.- 73. Crossley.- 74. Mehta.- 75. Wang/Dong.- 76. Klerides.- 77. Broadfoot.- 78. Kazamias.- 79. Cowen.- 80. Joint Editors’ Conclusion.- Index.