Readings

The bibliographical list includes a selection of some relevant materials reflecting important themes, key authors, and a variety of perspectives and viewpoints. It includes items from the field of comparative and international education and related fields.

Topic Areas

Adams, D. (Ed.). (1971). Education in national development. London: Routledge.

 

Adams, D., & Bjork, R. M. (1969). Education in developing areas. New York: David McKay

Co.

 

Anderson, A. C. (1961). Methodology of comparative education. International Review of

Education, 7, 1-23.

 

Bereday, G. Z. (1967). Reflections on comparative methodology in education. Comparative

Education, June, 169-187.

 

Coombs, P. (1985). The world crisis in education: A view, from the eighties. New York:

Oxford University Press.

 

Fagerlind, I., & Saha, L. J. (1989). Education and national development: A comparative

perspective. New York: Pergamon Press.

 

Haddad, W. D., Camoy, M., Rinaldi, R., & Regel, O. (1990). Education and development.

Washington, DC: The World Bank.

 

Kazamias, A. M. (1961). Some old and new approaches to methodology in comparative

education. Comparative Education Review, October, 90-96.

 

Mallison, V. (1987). An introduction to the study of comparative education (5th ed.). London:

Heinemann.

 

Noah, H., & Eckstein, M. A. (1969). Toward a science of comparative education. New York:

Macmillan.

 

Psacharopoulos, G., & Woodhall, M. (1986). Education for development. New York: Oxford

University Press.

 

Templeton, R. (1954). The study of comparative education in the United States. Harvard

Educational Review, 24(3), 141-158.

Altbach, P. G. (1991). Trends in comparative education. Comparative Education Review,

35(3), 491-507.

 

Altbach, P. G., & Kelly, G. P. (Eds.). (1986). New approaches to comparative education.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Arnove, R. F., Altbach, P. G., & Kelly, G. P. (Eds.). (1992). Emergent issues in education:

Comparative perspectives. Albany: SUNY Press.

 

Cummins, J., & Sayers, D. (1995). Brave new schools: Challenging cultural illiteracy through

global learning networks. New York: St. Martin's Press.

 

Kelly, G. P. (1987). Comparative education and the problem of change: An agenda for the

1980's. Comparative Education Review. 31(4), 477-489.

 

Masemann, V. (1990). Ways of knowing: Implications for comparative education. Comparative

Education Review, 34(4), 465-473.

 

Paulston, R. G. (1993). Mapping discourse in comparative education texts. Compare, 23(2),

101-114.

 

Rust, V. (1991). Postmodernism and its comparative education implications. Comparative

Education Review, 35(4), 610-626.

 

Weiler, H. (1989). Education and power: The politics of educational decentralization in

comparative perspective. Educational Policy, 3(1), 31-33.

 

Zachariah, M. (1985). Lumps of clay and growing plants: Dominant metahpors of the role of

education in the Third World. Comparative Education Review, 29(1), 1-21.

Brislin, R., & Tomoko, Y. (Eds.). (1994). Improving intercultural interactions. Thousand Oaks:

Sage Publications.

 

Brislin, R. W., Lonner, W., & Thorndike, R. (1973). Cross-cultural research methods. New

York: Wiley.

 

Beauchamp, T., Faden, R., Wallace, R., & Walters, L. (Eds.). (1982). Ethical issues in social

science research. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

Escotet, M. A. (1989). Cross-cultural research methodology in education. Nabe XXII

Convention.

 

Escotet, M. A. (1973). Early developments in cross-cultural research. San Antonio:

Comparative and International Education Society Proceedings.

 

LaBelle, T. J., & Ward, C. R. (1994). Multiculturalism and education. New York: SUNY

Press.

 

Moodley, K. A. (Ed.). (1992). Beyond multicultural education: International perspectives.

Calgary, Alberta: Detsehg Enterprises.

 

Ogbu, J. (1990). Minority education in comparative education perspective. Journal of Negro

Education, 59, 45-57.

 

Triandis, H. C., et al. (1972). The analysis of subjective culture. New York: Wiley.

Altbach, P. G., & Kelly, G. P. (Eds.). (1991). Education and the colonial experience (2nd ed.).

New York: Advent.

 

Arnove, R. F. (Ed.). (1980). Philanthropy and cultural imperialism. Boston: G. K. Hall.

 

Eriksen, T. H. (1993). Ethnicity and nationalism: Anthropological perspectives. Boulder: Pluto

Press.

 

Ruddell, D. (1982). Class and race: Neglected determinants of colonial 'adapted education'

policies. Comparative Education, 18(3), 293-303.

 

Watson, K. (1984). Dependence and interdependence in education. London: Croom Helm.

Albomoz, O. (1989). Education and development revisited: A sociological perspective.

International Sociology, 4, 273-291.

 

Albomoz, O., & Escotet, M. A. Educación y desarrollo desde la perspectiva sociológica.

Salamanca, Spain: UIP Press.

 

Bujazan, M., Hare, S., Stafford, L., & Stafford, T. (1987). International agency assistance to

education in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1970-1984: Technical and political decision-making. Comparative Education, 21(2), 161-171.

 

Dore, R. (1976). The diploma disease: Education, qualification, and development. Berkeley:

University of California Press.

 

Escotet, M. A. (1991). The transfer of technology in education as a means of modernization

in societies in transition. Budapest: Batthhydni Association.

 

Fagerlind, I., & Saha, L. J. (1989). Education and national develpment: A comparative

perspective (2nd ed.). Oxford, England: Pergamon Press.

 

Habte, A., & Keynemann, S. (1983). Education for national development: World Bank activities.

Prospects, 13(4), 471-479.

 

Hawkins, J. N. (1988). The transformation of education for rural development in China.

Comparative Education Review, 32(3), 266-281.

 

Kennedy, P. (1993). Preparing for the twenty-first century. London: Harper Collins Publishers.

 

Lockheed, M. E., & Verspoor, A. M. (1991). Improving primary education in developing

countries. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Lulat, Y. (1988). Education and national development: The continuing problem of misdiagnosis

and irrelevant prescriptions. International Journal of Educational Development, 8(4), 315-328.

 

Peaslee, A. (1969). Education's role in development. Economic Development and Cultural

Change, 17, 293-318.

 

Schuurman, F. J. (Ed.). (1993). Beyond the impasse: New directions in developing theory.

 

United Nations Development Program. (1991). Human development report 1991. New York:

Oxford University Press.

 

UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, & IBRD. (1990). World declaration on education for all and

framework for action to meet basic learning needs. Jomtien, Thailand: Interagency Commission for the World Conference on Education for All.

 

Zachariah, M. (1986). Comparative educators and international development policy. In P. G.

Altbach & G. P. Kelly (Eds.). New Approaches to Comparative Education (pp. 91-104). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bowman, M. J. (1966). The human investment revolution in economic thought. Sociology of

Education, 39(2), 111-137.

 

Chase-Dunn, C. (1975). The effects of international economic dependence on development and

inequality: A cross-national study. American Sociological Review, 20(4), 721-738.

 

Cornia, G. A., Jolly, R., & Stewart, F. (Eds.). (1987). Adjustment with a human face (Vol. 1).

Oxford: Clarendon Press.

 

Cummings, W. K. (1992). Examining the educational production function: UK/ US/ Japanese

models. In H. Walberg & D. Chapman (Eds.). International perspectives in educational productivity (pp. 4-21). Greenwich: Jai Press.

 

Debeauvais, M. (1982). Education and a new international economic order. Prospects, 12(2),

135-145.

 

DeYoung, A. (1985). Economic development and educational status in Appalachian Kentucky.

Comparative Education Review, 29(1), 47-67.

 

Goodwin, C. (Ed.). (1992). International investment in human capital. New York: Institute of

International Education.

 

Guthrie, J. W. (1991). The world's evolving political economy and the emerging globalization of

education: A set of extrapolations, interpolations, and predictions regarding the likely future internationalization of education policy. Educational Research Journal, 6, 1-15.

 

Hurst, P. (1983). Key issues in the external financing of education. Prospects, 13(4), 429-438.

 

Ilon, L. (1994). Structural adjustment and education: Adapting to a growing global market.

International Journal of Educational Development, 14, 2.

 

Jones, P. W. (1992). World Bank financing of education: Lending, learning, and development.

New York: Routledge.

 

Klees, S. (1984). The need for a political economy of educational finance: A response to

Thobani. Comparative Education Review, 28(3), 424-440.

 

Klees, S. (1986). Planning and policy analysis in education: What can economics tell us?

Comparative Education Review, 30(4), 574-607.

 

Knight, J. (1989). Education policy issues in a period of stabilization and structural

adjustment. Journal of Development Planning, 19, 59-72.

 

Levin, H. (1987). Education as a public and private good. Journal of Policy Analysis and

Management, 6(4), 628-641.

 

Thobani, M. (1984). Charging user fees for social services: Education in Malawi. Comparative

Education Review, 28(3), 402-423.

 

Windham, D. (1975). The macro-planning of education: Why it fails, why it survives, and the

alternatives. Comparative Education Review, 19, 187-201.

 

World Bank. (1988). Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies for adjustment, revitalization

and expansion. Washington, DC: The World Bank.

Educational Systems and Politics

Escotet, M. A. (1991). Democratic development and fraternity as the ethical bases for world

politics. Moscow: The Helsinki 2000: The Human Dimension of World Politics.

 

Hanson, E. M. (1989). Decentralization and regionalization in educational administration:

Comparisons of Venezuela, Colombia and Spain. Comparative Education, 25(1), 41-55.

 

Murray, T. R. (Ed.). (1983). Politics and education: Cases from eleven nations. New York:

Pergamon Press.

 

Ramirez, F., & Boli, J. (1987). The political construction of mass schooling: European origins

and worldwide institutionalization. Sociology of Education, January, 2-17.

 

Ramirez, F., & Rubinson, R. (1987). Creating members: The political incorporation and

expansion of public education. In J. Meyer & M. Hanna (Eds.). National development and the world system: Educational, diplomic and political change 1950-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gender Issues

Jacquette, J. S. (1982). Women and modernization theory: A decade of feminist criticism.

World Politics, 34(2), 267-284.

 

Kelly, G. P. (1990). Education and equality: Comparative perspectives on the expansion of

education and women in the post-war period. International Journal of Educational Development, 10(2/3), 5-9.

 

Kelly, G. P., & Elliott, C. M. (Eds.). (1982). Women's education in the Third World:

Comparative perspectives. Albany: SUNY Press.

 

Kelly, G. P., & Slaughter, S. S. (Eds.). (1991). Women's higher education in comparative

perspective. Amsterdam: Kluwer.

 

King, E. M. (Ed.). (1993). Educating girls and women: Investing in development. Washington,

DC: World Bank.

 

Papanek, H. (1985). Class and gender in education-employment linkages. Comparative

Education Review, 29(3), 317-346.

 

Ross, H. (1992). The tunnel at the end of the light: Research and teaching on gender and

education. Comparative Education Review, 36(3), 95-111.

 

Stromquist, N. P. (1990). Women and illiteracy: The interplay of gender subordination and

poverty. Comparative Education Review, 34(1), 95-111.

Higher Education

Adams, D. (1988). Extending the educational planning discourse: Conceptual and paradigmatic

explorations. Comparative Education Review, 32(4), 400-415.

 

Altbach, P. G., et al. (Eds.). (1989). Scientific development and higher education: The case of

newly industrializing nations. New York: Praeger.

 

Borrero, A. (1994). The university as institution today. Ottawa: IDRC, UNU and UNESCO.

 

Clark, B. R. (1983). The higher education system: Academic organization in cross national

perspective. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Escotet, M. A. (1995). A teacher-centered university education: Is the core university culture

different bewteen developed and developing countries? Proceedings from the Comparative and International Education Society, Boston, March 29, 43.

 

Escotet, M. A. (1992). A look at 21st century universities: Dialectic of the mission of universities

in an era of change. In UNESCO (Ed.). Challenges and options: Specific proposals on higher education (pp.269-288). Paris-Caracas: CRESALC/UNESCO.

 

Hayhoe, R. (1984). A comparative analysis of Chinese-Western academic exchange.

Comparative Education, 20(1), 39-56.

 

Mazrui, A. (1975). The African university as a multinational corporation: Problems of

penetration and dependency. Harvard Educational Review, 45, 191-210.

 

Morsy, Z., & Altbach, P. G. (Eds.). (1993). Higher education in international perspective:

Toward the 21st century. Paris: Unesco.

 

Saint, S. W. (1992). Universities in Africa: strategies for stabilization and revitalization.

Washington, DC: World Bank.

 

Spitzberg, I. J. (1980). Universities and the international distribution of knowledge. New

York: Praeger.

Nonformal, Adult and Distance Education

Archer, D., & Costello, P. (1990). Literacy and power: The Latin American battleground.

London: Earthscan Publications Ltd.

 

Arnove, R., & Graff, H. J. (1992). National literacy campaigns in historical and comparative

perspective: Legacies, lessons, and issues. In R. F. Arnove, P. G. Altbach, & G. P. Kelly (Eds.). Emergent issues in education: Comparative perspectives (pp. 283-294). Albany: SUNY Press.

 

Campos, I. (1990). The politics of literacy In Latin America. Convergence, 23, 50-67.

 

Carceles, G. (1990). Is literacy for all by the year 2000 a feasible target? Prospects, 20(4), 449-

459.

 

Escotet, M. A. (1988). Adverse factors in the development of an open university in Latin

America. In S., Keegan & Hohnberg (Eds.). Distance education: International perspectives. (2nd ed., pp. 141-156). New York: St. Martin's Press.

 

Escotet, M. A. (1992). Infomation and formation: The change of paradigm in university distance

learning. In G. Ortner, K. Graff, & H. Wilmersdoerfer (Eds.). Distance education as two-way communication (pp. 88-101). New York: Lang.

 

Freebody, P., & Welsh, A. K. (Eds.). (1993). Knowledge, culture and power: International

perspectives on literacy as policy and practice. Washington, DC: Falmer Press.

 

Hall, B. (1992). Rich and vibrant colours: 25 years of adult education. Convergence, 25, 4-16

 

Karakovsky, V. A. (1994). The school in Russia today and tomorrow. Compare, 24(1), 277.

 

Keegan, D. (1991). Foundations of distance education (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.

 

Mundy, K. (1993). Towards a critical analysis of literacy in Southern Africa. Comparative

Education Review, 37, 389-411.

 

Ortner, G.E., Graff, K., & Wilmersdoerfer, H. (Eds.). (1992). Distance education as two way

communication. New York: Lang.

 

Sewart, D., Keegan, D., & Hohnberg, B. (Eds.). (1988). Distance education: International

perspectives (2nd ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press.

 

Torres, C., & Schugurensky, D. (1994). The politics of adult education in comparative

perspective: Models, rationalities and adult education policy implementation in Canada, Mexico and Tanzania. Comparative Education Review, 30(2),131.

Planning

Alvarez, C. M. (1996). An integral view of ethnicity: Its relevance for educational planners.

Universitas 2000, 20, 1.

 

Blaug, M. (1967). Approaches to educational planning. Economic Journal, 77, 2 -287.

 

Bruno, J. E. (1976). Educational policy analysis: A quantitative approach. New York: Crane,

Russak & Co.

 

Burns, M. L. (1995). Values based planning for quality education. Lancaster: Technomic

Publishing Co.

 

Escotet, M. A. (1986). Utopian planning of education and development. Prospects, 4(60), 425-

442.

 

Godet, M. (1993). From anticipation to action: A handbook of strategic prospective. Paris:

Unesco Publishing.

 

IIPE-UNESCO. (Ed.). (19871). Planning education for reducing inequalities. Paris: The

Unesco Press.

 

IIPE-UNESCO. (1965-1975). Fundamentals of educational planning series (Volumes 1-21).

Paris: Unesco Press.

 

Kaufman, R., & Herman, J. (1991). Strategic planning in education. Lancaster: Technomic

Publishing Co.

 

McKinnon, K. R. (1973). Realistic educational planning. Paris: IIPE-UNESCO.

 

Psacharopoulos, G. (1986). The planning of education: Where do we stand. Comparative

Education Review, 30(4), 560-573.

 

Rondinelli, D. A., Middleton, J., & Vespoor, A. M. (1990). Planning education reforms in

developing countries: The contingency approach. Durham: Duke University Press.

 

Thomas, R. M. (Ed.). (1992). Education's role in national development plans: Ten country

cases. New York: Praeger.

 

Tilak, J. (1982). Educational planning and the international economic order.

Comparative Education, 18(2), 107-121.

Reforms in Education

Amagi, I. (Ed.). (1988). Educational reform in international perspective: China and Kyoto,

Japan, October 1985. International Journal of Educational Research, 12(2), 103-126.

 

Arnove, R. F. (1994). Education as contested terrain: Nicaragua, 1979-1993. Boulder:

Westview Press.

 

Carnoy, M. (1986). Education for alternative development. In P. G. Altbach & G. P. Kelly

(Eds.). New approaches to comparative education (pp. 73-90). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Ginsburg, M. (Ed.). (1991). Understanding educational reform in the global context:

Economy, ideology, and the state. New York: Garland Publishing.

 

LaBelle, T. J., & Ward, C. R. (1990). Education reform when nations undergo radical political

and social transformation. Comparative Education 26(1), 95-106.

 

Samoff, J. (1993). The reconstruction of schooling in Africa. Comparative Education Review,

37(2), 181-222.

 

Tedesco, J. C. (1993). Current trends in educational reform. Paris: International Commission on

Education for the Twenty-first Century, UNESCO.

State and Society

Carnoy, M., & Samoff, J. (1990). Education and social transistion in the Third World.

Princeton: Princeton University Press.

 

McGinn, N., & Street, S. (1986). Educational decentralization: Weak state or strong state?

Comparative Education Review, 30(4), 471-490.

 

Wirt, F. M. (1986). Comparing educational policies: Theory, units of analysis and research

strategies. In P. G. Altbach, & G. P. Kelly (Eds.). New approaches to comparative education (pp. 275-292). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Comparative Education

Arnove, R. F. (1980). Comparative education and world systems analysis. Comparative

Education Review, 24, February, 48-62.

 

Carnoy, M., et. al. (1993). The new global economy in the information age: Reflections on our

changing world. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

 

Crossley, M., & Broadfoot, P. (1992). Comparative and international research in education:

Scope, problems and potential. British Educational Research Journal, 18(2), 99-112.

 

Eckstein, M. A., & Noah, H. J. (Eds.). (1969). Scientific investigations in comparative

education. New York: Macmillan.

 

Epstein, E. (1986). Currents left and right: Ideology in comparative education. In P. G. Altbach,

& G. P. Kelly (Eds.). New approaches to comparative education (pp. 233-260). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Gezi, K. I. (Ed.). (1971). Education in comparative and international perspectives. New York:

Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

 

Holmes, B. (1986). Paradigm shifts in comparative education. In P. G. Altbach, & G. P. Kelly

(Eds.). New approaches to comparative education (pp. 179-200). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

 

Inkeles, A., & Smith, D. (1974). Toward a definition of the modern man. In A. Indeles, & D.

Smith (Eds.). Becoming modern (pp. 15-35). London: Heinemann Education.

 

Karabel, A., & Halsey, H. (Eds.). (1987). Power and ideology in education. New York: Oxford

University Press.

 

Kazamias, A. M., & Massialas, B. G. (1992). Comparative education. In C. Marvin (Ed.).

Encyclopedia of educational research (pp. 309-315). New York: Macmillan.

 

Kazamias, A. M., & Schwartz, K. (1977). Intellectual and ideological perspectives in comparative

education: An interpretation. Comparative Education Review, 21(2/3), 153-176.

 

Filter, R. (1987). The fading future. Comparative Education Review, 31(2), 218-240.

 

Noah, H. J. (1984). The use and abuse of comparative education. Comparative Education

Review, 28(4), 550-562.

 

Psacharopoulos, G. (1990). Comparative education: From theory to practice. Comparative

Education Review, 34(3), 369-380.

 

Thiesen, G., & Adams, D. (1990). Comparative education research. In R. M. Thomas (Ed.).

International comparative education: Practices, issues, and prospects (pp. 277-302). Oxford, England: Pergamon.

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