Early scholars in comparative education sought to achieve verstehen, an internalized understanding, of the nature of education in a culture. They accessed German concepts, particularly Wilhelm Diltheys, to interpret national studies to include the Triebkräfte, or forces, that made each nations education system unique. Diltheys inclusion of Johann von Herders and Friedrich Schleiermachers anti-rationalist ideas of intuitus and incommensurability was brought forward by Martin Heidegger, whose phenomenology incorporated these Idealist foundations. By the 1990s, some comparativists advocated for...
Early scholars in comparative education sought to achieve verstehen, an internalized understanding, of the nature of education in a culture. They acce...