EDU 504 : International and Comparative Education

EDU 504 introduces students to the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological questions and concerns that have animated scholarship and practice in the field of comparative and international education from its mid-twentieth century beginnings. While students consider the history of borrowing and lending educational ideas and best practices, the primary focus of the course is contemporary. Seminal questions to be examined: How do ‘global’ economic forces impact K-18 education? What are the transnational concerns surrounding culture? Who are the actors and institutions that educate for 21st century Learning? Course topics may include the internationalization of higher education; international testing regimes; neoliberalism and its varied reform motivations, meanings, and structures; and a constellation of counter-discourse developments attached to education for sustainable development and educational wholeness. These seminal questions provide the opportunity to pursue fundamental questions of purpose, theory, method, and various empirical logics in international and cross-national inquiry in educational policy studies.

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Graduate School Courses

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3