Oxford Studies in Comparative Education
About the Book Series
Oxford Studies in Comparative Education explores a range of issues relevant to the field of comparative education. With a focus on innovative research of wide international interest, it brings together the work of established and emerging authors and researchers. The series comprises both edited volumes and single-authored books that explore the vibrant field of comparative education and will be of wide relevance to academics and students interested in comparative inquiry, its methods and its lessons.
Previously published by Symposium Books from 1991 to 2018, this long-established series has a history of publishing quality titles across a huge range of topics.
International Transfer of Dual Modes of Vocational Education and Training: National Recontextualization and Local Enactment
1st Edition
Edited
By Oscar Valiente, Srabani Maitra, Philipp Gonon, Matthias Pilz
September 01, 2025
This volume looks at the recontextualization that results from the international transfer of dual modes of vocational education and training (VET), typically focused on apprenticeships, in their countries’ new nation-specific and local context, highlighting the absorptive capacities and the ...
The Rise of Dual Modes of Vocational Education and Training: Global Emergence, Transfer and Cross-National Attraction
1st Edition
Edited
By Oscar Valiente, Srabani Maitra, Philipp Gonon, Matthias Pilz
August 22, 2025
Recognising the regular adoption, by countries across the globe, of the vocational education and training (VET) model already so prevalent in German-speaking countries such as Austria, Germany and Switzerland, this book spotlights dual modes of VET, depicting its global emergence and subsequent ...
Latin American Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists
1st Edition
Edited
By Jason Beech, Cristina Alarcón López
June 19, 2025
Providing one of the first accounts in English of the work of the founding scholars of comparative education in Latin America from the 19th and 20th centuries, this book presents a detailed analysis of their influence on the field and highlights the pivotal role played by each scholar in the ...
Polarised Logics of Pedagogy: Crises, Contexts and Classrooms in the Global South
1st Edition
By Michele Schweisfurth
January 31, 2025
This novel book demonstrates the polarised logics that exist between exploring cultural, structural, political, and historical contexts as a primary focus for pedagogical research versus an interventionist agenda that isolates pedagogy and its components from their environments. Combining ...
Education, Curriculum and Nation-Building: Contributions of Comparative Education to the Understanding of Nations and Nationalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Tröhler
October 04, 2024
Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building. Using nine comparative case studies from four continents, the book elaborates a theoretical understanding of ...
The Reform of Teacher Education in the Post-Soviet Space: A Comparative Analysis of Fifteen Independent Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Menter
August 06, 2024
This book draws on scholarly expertise across the former Soviet Union to provide a comparative analysis of the policies and practices that are discussed within the context of global reform of teacher education. Divided into three parts, chapters of this book discuss the context behind economic and ...
Globalisation and Teacher Education in the BRICS Countries: The Positioning of Research and Practice in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Menter, Roza A. Valeeva, Martha Prata-Linhares
July 29, 2024
This edited volume critically engages with the debate on teacher education systems in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), considering the effects of contemporary globalisation processes on each differing geographic location. Written by leading researchers from the ...
The Status of the Teaching Profession: Interactions Between Historical and New Forms of Segmentation
1st Edition
Edited
By Xavier Dumay, Katharine Burn
May 27, 2024
Focusing on the historical development of the teaching profession, this book explores how the relationship between education and the formation of modern nation states has influenced both the status of the profession as a whole and the differential status accorded to different kinds of teachers ...
Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jesper Eckhardt Larsen, Barbara Schulte, Fredrik W. Thue
September 25, 2023
Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model examines the cultural distinctiveness of the Nordic teaching profession and teacher training compared to examples from Europe and North America. The book explores the concept of these ‘teacher cultures’ as various dimensions of professional identities, ...
Examining Teach For All: International Perspectives on a Growing Global Network
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew A.M. Thomas, Emilee Rauschenberger, Katherine Crawford-Garrett
May 06, 2022
*Winner, 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education* *Winner, 2021 Book Award from the Globalization and Education SIG, Comparative and International Education Society* Examining Teach For All brings together research focused on Teach For All and its affiliate ...
British Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 19th and 20th Century Comparativists
1st Edition
Edited
By David Phillips
February 01, 2022
This book brings together studies of significant British scholars of comparative education from the 19th and 20th centuries. Providing a unique and detailed examination of the work of the founding British scholars of research in comparative education, British Scholars of Comparative Education ...
North American Scholars of Comparative Education: Examining the Work and Influence of Notable 20th Century Comparativists
1st Edition
Edited
By Erwin H. Epstein
June 30, 2021
This book brings together fifteen comprehensive studies of significant North American scholars of comparative education from the 20th century. Providing relevant biographical detail, chapters analyse each scholar’s approach to comparative education and their on-going influences on the ...