Comparative Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction: Deconstructing Comparative Education

   • Maria Manzon

   Pages 1-12

3. Disciplines and Fields in Academic Discourse

   • Maria Manzon

   Pages 13-36

4. The Empirical Substance and Mass that Constitute the Field of Comparative Education

   • Maria Manzon

   Pages 37-126

5. Intellectual Histories of Comparative Education

   • Maria Manzon

   Pages 127-152

6. Mapping the Intellectual Discourse on ‘Comparative Education’

   • Maria Manzon

   Pages 153-216

7. Reconstructing Comparative Education

   • Maria Manzon

   Pages 217-229

8. Back Matter

   Pages 231-304

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This book is a remarkable feat of scholarship — so remarkable in fact that I put it in the same league as the great classics of the field that had so much to do with setting the direction of Comparative Education. Indeed, this volume goes further than earlier classics to reveal, through textual analysis and interviews with key figures, how the epistemological foundations of the field and crucial professional developments combined to, as the title indicates, construct Comparative Education. Manzon’s work is indispensable — a word I do not use lightly — for scholars who seek a genuine grasp of the field: how it was formed and by whom, its major theoreticians, its professional foundations, and so on. Clearly too, this book marks the rise of a young star, Maria Manzon, who shows promise of joining the ranks of our field’s most illustrious thinkers. Erwin H. Epstein Director, Center for Comparative Education Loyola University, Chicago, USA

• Academic Disciplines
• Comparative Education
• Power and Knowledge
• Sociology of Knowledge

From the reviews:

“This book is a kinder and more complete analysis of the history and culture of Comparative Education (CE) than any which have been attempted before. … Maria Manzon’s book should become a mandatory course for every CE student. This book is required reading.” (Sonia Mehta, International Review of Education, Vol. 59, 2013)

• Fac. Education, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong/PR China

  Maria Manzon

Maria Manzon is a Research Associate of the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Hong Kong. She was Editor of the CIEclopedia in 2009 and 2010, and Assistant Secretary General of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) in 2005.

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